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
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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-
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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
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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
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