48 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Place four posts to support twenty foot 6x8 i>urliiK's over the 

 day nursery, rest room and auditoriums over ten feet in length, 

 with 4x4 back to iron girders, as called for in the specifications and 

 drawings. 



Cover all light conduits coming down to switches with wooden 

 strips as instructed by architect. 



The superintendent of grounds was instructed to construct a 

 partition along the west row of steel colunnis in the large room 

 under the auditorium of the Women and Children's building; also 

 to tint the cement floor in this room with red mortar coloring. 



The superintendent of grounds was also instructed to lower the 

 outer ends of the north and south approaches to the subway 18 

 inches. The Des Moines Engineering and Construction company 

 agreed with the architect and the committee to put in the addi- 

 tional concrete on account of the above change in the approaches 

 without additional cost on account of defective work in the divi- 

 sion wall. 



The committee met with Dr. Voldeng and Dr. Lenna L. Means 

 to discuss matters pertaining to the Women and Children's build- 

 ing and the babies' health department. The committee authorized 

 Dr. Means, medical director of the ]iabies' health contest, to select 

 eight examiners for six days, at $10 per day. The committee also 

 agreed to allow the superintendent of the babies' health contest one 

 assistant, who is also to act as preliminary judge and receive the 

 same compensation as an examiner; two nurses six days at $3.50 

 per day; two clerks for the scoring committee six daj^s at $2.50 

 per day, and one stenographer six days at $2.50 per day. 



The committee with member C. F. Curtiss visited the grounds on 

 May 7th to determine what should be done about moving the vaude- 

 ville stages from the centerfield to the paddock in front of the am- 

 pitheater, building a sod track around the inside of the half-mile 

 track for the steeple chase races and hunters and jumpers contest, 

 also a show ring for light harness and saddle horses in the center- 

 field. 



The committee agreed to move the vaudeville stages from the 

 centerfield into the paddock and locate one directly in front of each 

 end section of the ampitheater and close to the fence. 



The committee agreed and instructed the superintendent of 

 grounds to level the ground for the sod track around the inside 

 of the half-mile track and to have same seeded at the earliest pos- 

 sible date. 



