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...main buildings are constructed of white marble, instead of limestone and brick as originally intended, and are connected by an esplanade of the same material as well as by surface and underground passages. Marble is used in the floors of the vestibules, but the other floors are of hard pine. The walls are of plaster, which will be painted, and are finished throughout in stained oak. The hot-water system is being used and both gas and electric lighting have been installed. The Power House, constructed of brick, and the Animal House, of plaster, are also connected by tunnels with...
...calculations for the work are as follows: earth excavation, 340,000 cubic yards; masonry, 43,825 cubic yards; filling, 390,000 cubic yards; piling, 470,000 linear feet; pine lumber, 235,000 feet; spruce lumber, 550,000 feet; riff raff, 9, 700 tons. There will be two locks in the dam, the larger being 350 feet in length and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient depth to allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided, and in emergencies...
...smaller rooms. On the second floor are the psychological and sociological, libraries, the museum of social ethics, a working room for students, and a lecture room. The third floor is the psychological laboratory of 25 rooms. The interior of the building is finished in white plaster, dark pine...
...exterior of Emerson Hall is now entirely completed, and only a bust of Emerson by F. Duveneck, of Indianapolis, remains to be placed in the main entrance. In the interior the plaster, iron stairways and rough wood-work have already been put in, and the flooring of dark pine is being laid. The furniture, most of which is to be of oak, has not yet arrived. The heating plant, to connect with the boiler in Sever, is being installed. It is expected that the building will be ready for inspection by the middle of December...
...decorative plastering have been finished. On the third floor the windows and finished wood-work have been put in, but are still unstained. The flooring of the two upper stories will consist of a thin layer of cement spread over the rough flooring and covered by dark pine. The purpose of the cement is to deaden sound. Almost all of the furniture, consisting of quartered oak book cases, exhibition cases, tables and chairs, has been ordered, but none of it has yet arrived...