The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-17
Construction Work is Rushed on
Dormitory and Heating Plants;
Main Hall is Being
Touched Up.
HOSPITAL WARD Is
| DORMITORY FEATURE
Dining Room Will be Enlarged !;
Laundry for Convenience of
Girls is to be in Use;
Completing Details

Oklahoma College for Women will
open Saturday, September q, enroll
ment taking up several days OF the
first week, according to statement
issued yesterday by President G. w.
Austin on his return from Oklahoma
City where he attended a meeting of
the state board OF education. Scores
of students have already signed up
for rooms and registration up to the
present indicates the largest enroll
ment in the history of the school, Mr..
Austin stated yesterday.
Construction work on all new build
ings under way on the campus has
been rushed for the past two months
in order that every department in
cluding the big dormitory annex
might be ready for the arrival of five
hundred women and girls here early
in September With complete fac
ulty and every class room thoroughly
renovated and fifty-one new sleeping
apartments together with modern
heating installed, everything is set for
a record start the president declares.
Accommodation Increased.
In announcing the opening yester-
day president Austin stated that on
the completion of the dormitory an
mex. the state would he prepared. to
accommodate two hundred and TWEEN
ty-four students on the campus alone,
additional assignments TO the various
buildings and adjacent to the grounds
being possible. Nellie Sparks hall
as it will appear next month will con
tain one hundred and twelve sleep
ing rooms besides parlors, reception
halls, etc. Valuation of the hall,
completed, will approximate $13O,OOO.
Rooms throughout the dormitory are
modern in every respect and remod-
cling, which has just been complet-
ed in the dining room of the old hall
equips 1t with table space for occu-
pants of the entire building.
Plans for the dormltory annex that
were drawn up on President Austins
recommendation include the latest
additions to the most up-to-date
schools Of the southwest. The wing,
the framework OF which has just
been finished, contains fifty-one
rooms with bath, closets and every
fixture that contributes to conven-
ience Space on the first floor will
be devoted to a reception and recre-
alton room, a post office and ex-
change for the distribution of mail,
and private laundry furnished to
accommodate students who wish to
conserve with modern washing ma
chimes, electric irons and pressing
racks. The second floor will be CIV
en- over to sleeping rooms.
Has Hospital Ward.
Perhaps the feature of the whole
womans college annex will be the
hospital ward situated on the third
floor. Besides three hospital beds
and the standard fixtures of mod
ern hospital the ward is to have one
room, isolated from all the others,
and especially arranged to accom-
modate cases of contagious disease.
Mr.. Austin considers this department
one of the most valuable in the whole
dormitory. The state will be at no
expense whatever in furnishing ma
tron and janitor service for buildings
on the campus, that being paid from
the dining room receipts.
Framework on the college central
heating plant, the first CT its kind
to be put in use in the state. is rap
idly nearing completion ready for the
installation of special vacuum heat
ing boilers. The capacity of the
plant has been specified with an eye
10 heating three more main build
ngs. President Austin stated yester
! day Main conduit heating lines will
| De run to the administration building
and Nellie Sparks hall and provis
,ons made for the new Fine Arts
building now being planned. The biz
smoke stack for the plant which wa
started yesterday will measure ap
)roximately eight feet in diamete
at the base and will reach heigh