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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1913)
APPROPRIATIONS FORJHE COLLEGE $1,221,575 ASKED FOR NEXT TWO YEARS. What the Thirty-third Legislature Will Be Called on to Appro priate and Why. College Station, Jan. 11: The Thirty-Third session of the Legisla ture of Texas will be called upon to set aside $1,221,575 for the use of the Agricultural and Mechanical College during the next two fiscal years be ginning Sept. 1. This appropriation will provide for the salaries of the faculty and other employes; mainten ance and support of the institution, construction of new buildings and pui- chase of new equipment and necessary repairs to present structures and equipment. In addition to the appropriation the Legislature will be asked to take up deficiency warrants amounting to S380,(JOO. That amount will provide for the warrants on the new mess hall for $100,00U; main building $200,QUO; and general deficiency $80,000. And then there will remain many things for which the College is in sore need. “ These are the things we must have if the College is to perform its present functions and continue its usefulness to the citzenship of the State,” says Col. R. T. Milner, presi dent. “In this request which we will present to the Legislature we do not enumerate what we ought to have or what we would like to secure, but we have confined ourselves to the very necessities of the institution.” A tabulated list of the amounts needed is given as follows: Maintenance and Support 191314 1914-15 Salaries $135,000 $150,000 Dean’s Office 1,000 1,000 Publicity Department 1,000 1,000 Chemistry and Chemical Eng 3,500 3,500 Drawing 1,000 1,000 Physics .2,500 3,000 Student Labor ... 8,000 8,000 Board Expenses 1,500 1,500 Library 10,000 10,000 President's Contingent 6,000 6,000 History and Economics 500 500 School of Agriculture Buildings Veterinary Science Building $150,000 Animal Husbandry—Judging Pavilion 38,000 Horse and Cattle Barn 10,000 Sheep Barn 1,500 Hog Barn 1,500 Hog Cholera Building 4,000 Maintenance and Support Agronomy $ 5,000 $ 4,000 Animal Husbandry 5,000 5,000 Biology 2,000 2,000 Dairy Husbandry 2,000 2,500 Entomology 4,000 4,000 Extension 20,525 19,900 Visitor of Schools 2,000 2,000 Horticulture 2,500 2,500 Dean's Office—Agriculture 500 500 Veterinary Science 3,000 3,000 Production and Distribution of Se u 2,000 2,000 Equipment Agronomy $ $ 500 Animal Husbandry 3,000 7,000 Biology 2,500 Dairy Husbandry 1,000 Entomolog>y —. 800 200 Horticulture 500 250 Experiment Station Total $ 20,000 $ 20,000 School of Engineering Maintenance and Support Architecture $ 1,000 $ 1,000 Civil Engineering 1,000 1,000 Highway Division 6,700 6,700 Electrical Engineering — 1,000 1,000 Mechanical Engineering 7,500 9,000 Equipment Civil Engineering $ 3,000 $ 3,000 Electrical Engineering 6,500 6,500 New Construction Dormitory $ 75,000 $ Electric Light and Power Lines 3,000 Cottages 20,000 20,000 Campus Streets 10,000 10,000 Incinerator 2,500 Assembly Hall 150,000 C. E. Hydraulic Laboratory, to erect and equip 25,000 5,000 Power Plant New Air Compressor $ 5,000 $ Ice Machine Repairing 7,000 New Boiler 4,000 Operating Expenses 30,000 30,000 Laundry Repairing Building 3,000 Water Works New Stand Pipe and Water Mains, com- plete Pumping Machinery and One New Well.. $ 10,000 $ 25,000 Repair Department Buildings $ 10,000 $ 10,000 Summary M. & S. School of Agriculture School of Engineering Experiment Station New Construction $170,000 257,825 26,700 20,000 350,500 $185,500 58,850 28,200 20,000 104,000 $825,025 $396,550 GRAND TOTAL, $1,221,575.00 The destruction by fire of the mess hall, the temporary kitchen erected after the hall was burned, and the main building left the Board of Di rectors and the President and faculty with many hard problems to solve. The mess hall was destroyed Nov. 11, 1911. A temporary hall was imme diately erected, and one week after mess hall burned the temporary kit chen was destroyed. Gov. Colquitt gave his approval for deficiency war rants for *100,000 for the construe ion of a new dining hall and that building is now in course of construction. The main building was burned May 27, 1912, and the Governor also ap proved deficiency warrants for *200,000 for the erection of a new main building. Work is progressing rapidly on that structure, also, and it will be comple ed by the opening of school next fall. The provision of temporary quarters after these two disastrous fi'-es is in a large measure responsible for the •180,000 general deficiency. A tem porary mess hall of corrugated iron was built and then when the kitchen was burned it was replaced with a similar structure. Old Gathright hall now being used as an office building had to be repaired and that drained the treasury. Then, too, the appro priation for salaries fell about $25,000 short and the payment of these in creased the deficiency. Repairs were made at the central steam heating plant and overdrafts were given in payment for this work. For construction of new buildings the Legislature is asked to set aside $454,500. That budget will include funds for the construction of a dor mitory to cost $75,000; assembly hall to cost $150,000; cottages for instruc tors to cost $40,000; hog cholera building, $4,('00; Veterinary Science building, $150,000; Judging pavillion, $38,000; horse and cattle barns, $10,000; sheep barns, $1,500; hog barn, $ 1,500. So rapid has been the increase in students that the college authorities have with difficulty afforded comfort able accomodations for the boys. Every available building is crowded now and if the college continues its present expansion within two years students will be forced to occupy tents unless a new dormitory is erected. In explanation of the request for an appropriation with which to construct a new assembly hall it is but neces sary to say that the present structure used as a hall is so small that for the past two years it has been impossible to hold the commencemet exercises there. The closing exercises of the college last year were held on the i campus. The hall was erected in j 1887. i A consistent effort is being made by the authorities to establish a school of | veterinary science at the college. There is no such school in the South west. The assessed value of live stock in Texas is $350,000,000 and annually there is a loss of $7,000,000 by death from preventable causes. With $150,000 a building where this science should be taught could be erected at the A. and M. college. The Legislature will be called upon to set aside $40,000 for the construc tion of homes for members of the faculty and other employes of the school. Located five miles from Bryan, the neaiest town, capable in structors can nor be retained at the college unless suitable homes are pro vided for them. At present the demand is far in excess of the supply and it is to remedy this con ition that the appropriation is asked. Plans for the construction of im proved roadways and good sidewalks for the college grounds are being con sidered. Constant use of the roads by heavily loaded wagons has resulted in the campus being badly cut up. No sidewalks of a permanent nature have ever been constructed on the grounds and when a heavy precipita tion occurs the campus becomes al most impassable. “We have undergone many severe trials during the past two years,” said Col. Milner. “Of course to provide new buildings has got us in debt, but it has been a wise investment. Had it not been that a temporary mess hall was constructed immediately and class work continued after the first .fire the school would have suffered a blow from which it would never have fully recovered. The students were loyal and the faculty heroic. We went to work to overcome a bad situation and the return of the larger per cent of our students this last term and the enrollment of many new students is a pretty fair testimonial to how we suc ceeded. “I feel that in Our petition to the Legislature we have been very con siderate. We are asking for things which we must have and I feel that the Legislaturs, fully cognizant of the importance of agricultuial pursuits and aware of the good accomplished by our institution will look with favur upon our behest”. IKE ASHBURN, Publicity Agent. DR. HUTNNIGUTT Physician and Surgeon Special Altenlion to Diseases of Children OFFICE : Rooms 12 and 14 Commerce Building Phone 289-3; Home 289-2 BRYAN, TEXAS WM. B. CLINE, M. D. 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