Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1913 — WILL ABANDON PART OF COLLEGE PLANS [ARTICLE]

WILL ABANDON PART OF COLLEGE PLANS

Contractors’ Bids So Much Exceeded Architect’s Estimates That All Was Not Possible. Only part of the extensive building plans at St. Joseph’s college will be carried out this year, owing to the fact that the architect had greatly underestimated the cost of the construction and the money available proved insufficient to accomplish all that had been in prospect. The architect’s plans included the raising of the gymnasium and the erection of a new science hall with a large swimming pool below. The architect estimated the cost at 140,000. It is understood that the best figures procured from contractors made the cost about $75,000. It was a day or two ago to abandon the construction of the science hall, but to let the contract for the raising of the gymnasium and the completion of that building according to the plans of the architect. Contractor Becker, of Chicago, will raise the building, but the contract for the brick work has not been let. Prank Medland, of Logansport, will probably get the job.