DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 33 



CENTRAL HEATING AND LIGHTING PLANT. 



We have just completed the central heating and lighting system. 

 The cost has been about |140,000. The building which houses the equip- 

 ment is located about one hundred feet south of the veterinary labora- 

 tory. From this building tunnels radiate to all the large buildings on 

 the grounds. These tunnels are constructed of concrete, and are six 

 feet wide and six and one-half feet high. Their entire length is nearly 

 three-quarters of a mile. In them are placed the steam pipes for heat- 

 ing purposes and the electric lighting wires; and they will also soon 

 contain the telephone wires. The building proper is 100 by 70 feet. 

 The smokestack is 125 feet high, 6 feet in diameter inside, and 10 feet 

 in external diameter at the base. It is built of vitrified hollow blocks. 

 There are four 150-H. P. Scotch marine boilers equipped with the 

 Jones underfeed stokers. There are two 125-kilowatt dynamos. These 

 are duplicates, either one of which is ample to carry the entire load. 

 A smaller 45-kilowatt dynamo carries the day load. The entire plant 

 represents engineering skill of a high grade and will be of great educa- 

 tional value to all our engineering students. A coal shed of 1,800 tons 

 capacity is located back of the boiler house. The coal is transferred to 

 hoppers automatically. The ashes drop to a car placed in a tunnel in 

 front of the boilers and are likewise handled automaticallv, or without 

 the use of the shovel. The entire plant is very satisfactory. The absence 

 of smoke from it is very much appreciated by the dwellers on the 

 campus. 



WELLS HALL. 



The new Wells Hall which will take the place of the one destroyed 

 by fire on February 11, 1905, will be ready for occupancy at the open- 

 ing of the next school year. This building is erected in six compart- 

 ments or wards, with fire-proof walls between, and with an outside 

 entrance for each. Every floor in each ward contains five rooms and a 

 toilet room, making accommodations in the entire building for 156 

 students. Of the rooms, sixty-six are double rooms, 15 by 15 feet, with 

 a large cloak room, and twenty-four are single rooms. All are well 

 lighted and each is ventilated with a separate flue. The finishings 

 are Georgia pine and the floors are of maple. The attic of each ward 

 is finished in the same manner and will furnish very pleasant quarters 

 for six literary societies. The basement is high and well lighted. It 

 contains a' large kitchen with serving rooms, pantries, storage rooms, 

 dining rooms with a seating capacity for three hundred, besides toilet 

 rooms and six fine living rooms for the help. 



BARNS. 



The last legislature appropriated |10,000 for the erection of a new 

 l3arn and for the moving and repairing of the old ones. This work will 

 be completed during the coming summer and will not only add greatly 

 to the appearance of the buildings and yards but will algo afford com- 

 modious quarters for the housing of stock and farm machinery. 

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