Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1914 — NEW GYMNASIUM AT ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW GYMNASIUM AT ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE

Contract Let to Frank Medland, of Logansport, For $86,675 and the Old Material. f The contract for the new gymnasium and music hall at the college was closed today by the college authorities with Frank Medland, of Logansport, Ind., for $86,675 and all the old material on the grounds. The material on the grounds consist of steel beams,

about 600,000 brick and a lot bf stope, etc.,’that was obtained from the wreckage of the ruins of the old building which was destroyed by fire on April 2. The above price does not cover the heating and plumbing. With the heating and plumbing’the cost of the new building will be over SIOO,OOO. The authorities of the Precious Blood community, who have the final decision in the matter, still l do not see their way clear to erect the entire building and probably the south wing and the center part of the building will be erected this summer, omithing the north wing, in which event the cost will be considerably less. The building will face east. The

south wing basement will contain the lockers, candy store and barber shop and adjacent to the gymnasium proper of the center part there will be a dressing room for visiting teams. The first floor of the south wing will contain the lavatories and baths. The second floor the departments of biology and physics and a large recreation room. The third floor will be divided into one large room for a chemical laboratory, a smaller one for lecture room for the science department and two private laboratories and store room for these departments. The center part of the building will contain a gymnasium 20 feet high in the clear, and running through two stories above this for

the entire length of the wing will be the auditorium, which will equal in size and equipment a small sized theatre. ; The north wing, if built, will eontain a gymnasium for permanent gymnastic apparatus, v smoknig room, billiard room, the first floor and basement, the music department oh the second floor and the libraries on the third floor. Ground will be broken Thursday. The newly elected provincial of the Precious Blood Society, the Very Rev, George Hind elang,C. P. P. S., of Celina, Ohio, is the guest of the college this week. Prospects are again good for a large body of students this fall.

New Gymnasium to be built at the College to replace the one which was burned early in April.