The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-06-26
$4,000 Building for u. of L.

Fifty thousand dollars are to bs
spent in improvements at the Univer
sity of Idaho, work to begin about
August 1. The administration build
ing is to be completed, by the addi
ton of wing on the south, the new
addition to be 40 100 feet, with three
full stories and complete basement
This will mean that at least 100 sol
diers can be kept and trained here
the entire year.
This good news was brought to
Moscow yesterday evening by DR.
E. A. Bryan, state commissioner Of
education, who came from Boise to
arrange for the drafting Of plans and
the advertising for bids for the
structure. The building is to be of
steel, concrete and brick, and will be
steel, concrete and brick, and will be
one of the most permanent on the
campus.
Work on this wing was started and
an appropriation Of $4,000 was
made for it, but the board of exam
ination stopped the work when pro-
gram Of curtailment Of expenses was
inaugurated, and the foundation and
basement, partly completed, have
stood for many months. Now the
basement is to be extended 20 feet,
making it 100 instead of 80 feet long,
and the walls will be built to height
of three full stories, which, with the
basement will give four stories to be
used for military work.
The present plans provide for no
partitions, and only temporary roof.
The permanent roof is to be of steel
and tile, but both of these materials
are very difficult to obtain now and
very high in price, SO temporary
roof will be put on the building. 1t
is estimated the building as planned
can be built for about $45,O00 to
$50, 900, and this sum is available.
DR.. Bryan is having the architect
rearrange his plans for the building
with the changed dimensions from
those originally planned, and this
work will probably take week. Then
bids will be asked. 1t will take two
or three weeks to advertise for bids,
but DR.. Bryan thinks that the con-
tract may be let by July 20 and work
started about August 1. It is hoped
to get the work started early and
have it rushed to completion so that
the building may be ready for occu-
pancy before cold weather begins.
The plans provide for the basement
to be used for a kitchen and mess
hall, where the food will be cooked,
served and eaten. The first and
second floors above the basement will
be used for shops for the various
kinds of special training to be given
the men. The top floor will be used
for sleeping quarters for the men.
This building will accommodate 100
men, providing workshops, eating and
sleeping quarters for them for the
entire year. It is hoped to increase
the capacity of the university for
caring for soldiers, but the first prob |
lem confronting the board of educa
ton and the regents is to prepare to
care for 100 the year around, and
throughout the winter The
quarters now used are unfit for
winter quarters for the men.
The erection of this new building,
the expenditure of $45,000 or $4,000 !
for material and labor, will help Mos
COW immensely, but the greatest.
benefit comes from the permanency
of the structure and of the work it
is intended to bring to the school. 1t
will mean that not less than 100 sol
diers will be here for 12 months in
the year, and these will be trained
and fitted for the special war work
for which the government needs such
men now. 1t means that later more
than that number will be kept, but
the most important fact is that these
men can be brought here and trained
and given the special education the
war department demands, without
with the regular work of
The school. The University of Idaho
IS to become great military training
school, but it will not cease to be the
states greatest educational institu-
5ion, but it's usefulness for general
educational work will be increased by
he addition of this new feature