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THE BATTALION
FOR
BUILDINGS AT
A. AND M.
Engineering Shops Building and Ag
ricultural Building Are
Begun.
College Station, Texas, Sep. 11.—
The building sites at the A. and M.
College of Texas for a new agricul
tural building and mechanical engi
neering shops building, to be erect
ed at a total cost of $425,000 have
been cleared and ground is about to
be broken for their construction
which will begin at once.
Both buildings will be modern in
every respect and their completion
will mark a great advancement in the
efficiency of the two departments of
engineering and agriculture.
The agricultural building will fill
a long felt need of the School of Ag
riculture, the administration staff of
which is still quartered in one of the
first buildings erected on the cam
pus. It will provide office and class
room space for the various depai’t-
ments of horticulture, agronomy,
pomology, landscape art, entomology,
floriculture, vegetable gardening,
etc. and in aldition a number of lab
oratories in the ground story. The
building will be the central or ad
ministration unit of the group of
structures used by this school and
is so located that future buildings
will be conveniently located around
it. The cost of this building com
plete will be $250,000.00 and it will
be in all respects modern and fire
proof. Toilets will be provided on
each floor and rest rooms arranged
for both stenographers and students.
The engineering shops building is
designed to house the carpentry, pat
tern, machine, forge and foundry
shops as well as class rooms and dem
onstration rooms in connection there
with. An enormous amount of steel
sash, properly ventilated will give an
abundance of light and air circula
tion in all parts of the building. Am
ple toilet and locker rooms are loca
ted in the basement, which is well
lit and easily reached. In addition
the basement provides storage room
for the various shop units. The cost
of this building will be $150,000
with an additional $25,000.00 for
equipment such as machinery and
shop supplies. This group of shops
will replace the old ones destroyed
by fire last spring and they will give
to the A. and M. College one of the
most modern and carefully laid out
shop plants in the entire United
States.
Plans and specifications were pre
pared by La Roach and June of the
College Department of Architecture.
THANKSGIVING ON THE RIVER
To a little Ethiopian, who was swim
ming in the Nile,
Came up quite unexpected a hungry
crocodile.
And with that chill politeness, that
makes the warm blood freeze,
He said, I’ll take a little dark meat
without the dressing, please.
I saw her standing in the car,
Old, bent, and gray,
I could not bear to see her stand,
I looked the other way.
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