Milford chronicle., 1929-12-27

"The second alternative seems to
all the committees of the Board (the
Committee on the Women's College,
the Committee on Grounds and
Buildings, and the Committee on
Finance) to be the better one. 1t
will provide a large gymnasium
room, or exercise hall, swimming
pool, and locker-room and shower
baths and will end itself to compile
tion of the building without any loss
from tearing out walls such as
would result from adoption of the
first of the two suggestions. 1t will,
it is true, greatly reduce the rooms
needed for adequate supervision and
administration, which would be pro-
vided in the first suggestion, but it
offsets this disadvantage through the
inclusion of the swimming pool and
the even more important considera-
ton of the ultimate economy Of the
States resources. 1t is apparently
quite certain that the State Cor pri-
vate individually will be at some
time in the future desire to complete
this building. 1t is the duty of the
Board to so plan it as to meet the
urgent needs of the present and to
make possible its completion with as
little loss as possible.
"It is worthy of note that the pres
ent estimated cost of the completed
building, after six months of study,
reduction, and alteration OF the va
rious plans submitted, amounts to
just what the board asked for 1t
from the General Assembly, $19O,OOO,
on the basis of as careful estimates
as could be made in advance of full
plans and specifications.
"The enlargement of the heating
plant has proved to be by far the
most difficult problem the Grounds
and Building Committee has had be-
fore it. The specifications drawn by
the heating and ventilating engineer,
Mr.. Schoenijahn, with the co-opera-
ton of the dean of engineering, IN
order to provide for the possibility
of the cost being in excess Of our
funds, had to contain a very large
number of individual, or unit, terms
which could be combined in num-
ber of different ways. This made
the problem a very complex one
when it was discovered that the bids
of the contractors for plant of the
completeness desired were all far
above the amount available for this
purpose, $4,000.
MANY meetings were necessary TO
arrive at combination which would
meet our needs, lend itself most
readily to future enlargement, and
come within the amount in hand for
the purpose. A satisfactory solution
was, however, finally reached and
the contract awarded to the Cox En-
gineering Company, of Hazleton, Pa.
| The contract finally agreed upon
stipulated the use of boilers from the
Edge Moor Iron Company, OF Della
ware, to which firm the University
is indebted for assistance in the form
of a very large discount on the price
of the boilers installed at the time
of erection of the library. These
boilers are still in use and will con-
tinue in use in the new plant; which,
as you know, is being enlarged 10
take care of the additional demands
for heating the three new buildings:
the Engineering Building, the Aud
itorium, and the Womens college
Gymnasium.
work upon this enlarged heating
and power plant is progressing as
RAPIDLY as the weather and the ma
ture of the undertaking permits. IL
is necessary to make the new install
lation. with certain notifications
which involve the units now IN use,
without interrupting the heating OF
our buildings by the existing plant:
"The contract calls for the install
lation of a forced draft system Win
automatic stokers for the OLD Dollers
as we'll as for the new 3OO morse
mower boiler which is being added.
This will give greatly increased heat
ing capacity over the hand stoklng
system now being employed and Will
! result in considerable economies IN
utilization of the heat contained IN
the fuel consumer and in reduction
of man-power required to fire the
boilers. The base for the next boiler
that will be needed is being laid and
the boiler-house enlarged to lncluoe
| it so that Wnen IL DeCOul0S
it can be installed with the least pos
sible expense. The plant, however
as now being constructed, Will be
able to provide heat for the three
new buildings and at least two more
without further additions.
'It should be observed that the
plan adopted contemplates and pro-
vides for extension by the simple ad-
dition of 300 horse power boilers, one
at a time, without the change or re-
vision of the rest of the plant which
was necessary in the Reorganization
now being made.
Attention is called to the fact that
the contract price for the above is is
$4,000. This leaves, of the $l5'OOO
available for this purpose, SS'OOO
with which to make certain changes
in the campus drains to meet the
needs of the enlarged plant and TO
provide a small margin for unex-
pected expenses"