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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1922)
The Daily Bulletin | Published every morning, except Monday, by the Publicity Department of the Agricul- tural and Mechanical College of Texas. Of- ficial Publication of the College. Distributed free to. all students, instructors and Campus residents. Advertising rates furnished on application. Office: : Room 118 1st floor Academic Building ~ WILLIAM BENNETT BIZZELL, President of the College. FRANK O. MARTIN, Publicity ‘Secretary. VADA TUCKER, Assistant. A. and M. men who, along with the officials of the two companies, exhib- ited and explained the fabrication of bridges and the preparation of rein- forcing steel for concrete structures. The party then inspected the new ad- ministration building of the Dallas Y. W. C. A; a reinforced concrete building of most modern design, in process of construction, and later in the afternoon the eighteen story Med- ical Arts building under construction. This is said to be the tallest all-re- inforced concrete building in the South. Austin Brothers company have the contract for the reinforcing steel for this building. At this place the Dallas Morning News had a picture taken of the party, which picture appeared in Friday morning’s issue. The last point vis- ited on Thursday was the twenty-nine story building of the Magnolia com- pany, over which they were shown by R. B. Pearce, a 1911 civil engineering graduate of the College, and for three years an instructor in the department, after which the first day’s inspections ended. On Friday morning the party was taken first to inspect the Sewage Dis- posal plant. of the city of Dallas, after which. they visited the Oak Cliff pumping station, where the use of the Pitot tube as a water measuring de- vice was explained to them. Coming back the Dallas-Oak Cliff viaduct was inspected. With a width between curbs of forty-four feet this viaduct carries an average daily traffic of over thirty thousand vehicles, which is just about the limit of its capac- ity. The Turtle creek water filtra- tion plant was then inspected and its operation -and effectiveness in puri- fying the water, and thereby ‘lower- ing the death rate in Dallas enor- mously, was explained by Mr. Rosen- thal, the chemist in charge. As an - incident only of the purification pro- cess, Mr. Rosenthal stated that a most conservative estimate showed that the saving of soap in laundries and homes in Dallas last year amounted to about OO eighty-seven thousand dollars, or double what it cost to run the plant. Throughout the morning, and the afternoon also, the party was accom- panied by R. C. Ledbetter, engineer in charge of sanitation, and Joe R. John, engineer in charge of distribu- tion, in the waterworks department of the city, to whom the thanks of the party are due for many courtesies. At noon the party was entertained by the Merchants and Manufacturers’ | division of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce at this weekly luncheon at the Adolphus hotel, where many court- esies and a bountiful repart were thoroughly enjoyed. After luncheon J. F. Witt, president and manager of the Nagle, Witt, Rol- lins Engineering Company, resident engineer in charge of construction of Dallas County’s seven million dollar road building program, took charge and showed the party over parts of the Denton and Garland roads, now under construction. Because of a six inch rainfall in Dallas county a couple of days pre- viously work on the highways was practically suspended but Mr. Witt showed the young men the asphalt mixing plant at Love Field, where two grades of Oklahoma asphalt rock are comb ned and fluxed with Texaco asphalt before being applied in a two inch layer as a wearing surface for the Denton road. The party also in- spected the combined bridge and fish- ing pier across Bachman’s Lake on the Denton Road and examined sev- It FO 0 Students | Spalding’s fiihletic Goods Baseball Track Tennis Golf A. M. WALDROP & Ce. eral reinforced concrete bridges on the Garland Road, as well as the work heretofore done on the subgrade and the preparations being made for put- ting down the concrete base on this road. After an inspection of the White Rock Dam, pumping station, and the foundation and other work so far done on the new half million dollar water purification plant now being construct- ed there the party was driven to the Spring Lake Country Club where Mrs. Clarence M. Cockrell, aunt of J. F. Tomkins, had provided tea and a large group of charming young ladies, and where a most enjoyable hour and a (Continued on Page 4) HHH WJIRK B.W. 918 college students averaged profits of $12.72 a day last summer. This is not a house to house pro-osition. If you want a job this summer, see OWENS AT Y.M.C. A. i 0 Z 0
