Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1914 — GYMNASIUM PLANS ARE MADE PUBLIC [ARTICLE]

GYMNASIUM PLANS ARE MADE PUBLIC

Fine Building To Replace One Destroyed By Pu& lished For First Tima After practically two months of painful waiting for the permission of the superiors of the Precious Blood 'Society to contract the necessary debts to obtain the funds for rebuilding, and after many weeks of deliberation as to the proper kind of building to erect, the college authorities are happy to announce that a new building will be erected on the north side campus, which, to many respects will 'be superior to 'the old and contain many new features. The style of the new building ■ will be somewhat in keeping with that of the other buildings but at she same tame a departure in so far as the roof will be a flat one. The buiildinjg wiiffl be off fire-proof construction throughout, all floors to be cement and steel. The front, which will face the Ridge road, will be off dark red brick trimmed with Bedford stone and cream colored brick. The total 1 length will be 190 feet, with an average depth of 70 feet There will be a main center portion and 'two wings, the wings to be separated from the center, portion by two entrances and accompanying corridors running the entire width off the /building. There will be 'three stories and a basement. The basement is to be 12 feet hiigh ahd each of the floors 14 feet.

Oonsideniing the center portion first. The basement will contain a gymnasium running up two stories, 20 feet in clear, and 80x50. The gymnasium is flanked on the easf side by a room for a double bowling alley., The space over this alley -and the main corridors of the first floor are so arranged as to serve the purpose off galleries from which spectators may view the games on the floor below. Above the gymnasium proper there will be an auditorium or theatre 26 feet high, containing a stage 70x20 with prosenium opening 30 feet wide. The stage entrances will be from the north corridor and the auditorium entrances from the south corridors. The main auditorium floor will be or cement finish and will seat 480 persons; a gallery above will seat about 200 more. Both the gymnasium* and the auditorium willl receive floods off light from the east and west sides.

In the north wing the basement will contain a special ‘'gym” apparatus room 20 feet high in the clear and covering a space of about 2400 square feet The remaining floor space will be given over to storage purposes. On the first floor will be the club rooms tor senioT (students. On’ the second floor the entire muisic department, rooms for pianos, organs, library, orchestra and band. The third floor will be divided Into three large rooms for library and reading purposes. The basement of the south wing wiH house | the swimming pool/ which wiHl be 50x26 feet in dimensions, and gymnasium lockers for 400 students. The first floor will be fiinMied in terrazzo and will contain 17 shower baths. On the second floor there will be a play room for junior students, the other half of the floor will l be arranged for a biological laboratory. The entire fourth floor will be devoted to science, a chemical (laboratory, private laboratory, store room and lecture hall calculated to take care of sixty students at one time. Owing to lack of sufficient fluids it will be impossible to complete the building at the present time. The north wing will be omitted until some future time. The music department senior club rooms and gym apparatus room will be placed in the south wing temporarily In the rooms intended for biology, game room, and swimming pool. Work will be begun about July Ist if plans carry. It Is believed that this building, when completed, will be one of the best devoted to the purpose in the state. AM the laws of the states otf Ohio, Indiana and Illinois regarding school buildings, auditoriums, etc., will be practically complied with. The Insurance carried by the college on the old buddings, amounting to slightly more than 125,100, has all been paid. It was carried by the Pennsylvania Insurance 00., the Fireman’s of Newark, and the Connecticut, of Hartford, all in the Steward agency of Rensselaer. The college will close Wednesday morning, June 17th with a solemn high mass in the college chapeL Owing to the fact that the college has no auditorium nor Stage fixtures at present, the usual annual commencement drama will not be given. In Its Stead there will be an oratory contest, In all prober

Witty, Jf the weather permits, in the open air. Thirty-seven students wßi he graduated this year, the largest class In the history off the institution.