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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1894)
4 THE BATTALION. capacity of 750 lights, taking 50 volts to the light. The College viewed from a distance at night looks like a large city. 2nd. The Ice factory. This was an addition long wished for by the boys. The factory has a capacity of two tons every 24 hours, but upon a test it made three tons and sixteen pounds in 21 1-2 hours, showing the machinery to be su perior. The ice is used exclusively for the benefit of the College. 3rd. The steam laundry. The laun dry is as well equipped as any laundry of its size in the State, the work 'being the Troy. Although the hands employ ed are inexperienced, being students, the management being by an experi enced man, still the work done is, con sidering this, as well done as any laun dry in the State can do. It employs eight men and has a capacity of 600 bun dles a week, allowing sixteen pieces to the bundle. These plants are in brick buildings and are managed by experi enced men, the students working in all and receiving for their labor a fair com pensation, which is paid from the Stu dents Labor Fund. This work is so done as not to interfere with the stu dents duties; and by this Fund many of the students pay their own way through the College. 4th. The Stand pipe. This pipe is one hundred feet tall and ten feet in diameter and holds about 59,165 gal lons of water, furnished by an artesian well close by. Pipe connections run from the pipe to the different machinery halls and to the natatorium. 5th. Natatorium. This natatorium is the pride of the College. The college has needed this for many years and now it has one, and one of such rare beauty. Just to think of a fine natatorium con sisting of a handsome frame structure about 80 feet in length and 40 feet in width in which is a large pool 51x26 feet and tapering from five to seven feet in depth and filled with water above 98 ° . On both sides of the pool are rooms.. On one side dressing rooms and on the other are nine small bathing rooms in which beautiful marble slab bathing tubs are placed. There is also a large sitting room in the building. This nat atorium is the most beautiful one, con sidering its size, in the State. The foregoing improvements, together with the many minor ones, constitute the improvements around the College for the past year, and what more could we want. As an agricultural and me chanical college it can compete with any in the United States and then be a lead er. To those youths who wish an educa tion in this branch and who have never visited the A. and M., I will say that in the agricultural or mechanical depart ment a thorough education may be ob tained. It is true that many ears have been poisoned by words detrimental to the college, but they were spoken by— yes, students, if I must degrade the uni forms they wore, who had violated the- rules of the College and in consequence were expelled and they had by these cowardly means sought to revenge them selves and had condemned the College to the fullest extent. But as a student and cadet of this institution I will bold ly say to those who perhaps have heard assertions of that nature, that they are wholly unwarranted and if they would take the trouble to look into this College and see the good it is doing for this grand State I am sure they would coin cide with me in my assertion. In the section room we are trained carefully and skillfully, and by our mil-