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and ducts are made of brickwork and earthen ware, and it is for this reason that the system was adopted, for the large amount of iron contained in the steam pipes and radiators of the ordinary steam heating system would interfere seriously with the accurate use of delicate magnetic instruments. Very little iron is used in the construction of the building, even the door knobs and latches being made of brass. But besides the advantage that iron can be dispensed with in the construction of this heating system, it has other very desirable qualities. The temperature is regulated automatically. In each room is a thermostadt which is set at the temperature it is desired to maintain When this temperature is reached an electric circuit is completed and the damper of the duct leading to the room is closed, shutting off the hot air. The cold air duct is at the same time opened. In this way the hot air is turned on and off, and an equal temperature maintained. By this system a room can be kept almost within one degree of the desired temperature.
From the incomplete state of the work at present very little idea can be given of the arrangements of the building, but they will be as complete as those of the heating system. There are to be large recitation rooms, many research rooms, a battery room, r pair shop, laboratories, a chemical kitchen, temperature and standardizing rooms. The building will be completed about the first of January.
AT THE POWER HOUSE.
This Fall the University will have its own water works, and, it is hoped, will no longer be compelled to use the chocolate-colored "pure and wholesome" water of the city water works, even to water the grounds. A line of new telegraph poles, extending from the Power House to the base of the hill, shows the way to the wells and pumping station, for the wire carries the electric current to an electric motor which is to operate the pump. A new Multipolar generator will soon arrive and be put in place in the Power House to furnish power to the water works motor, as well as to the motor used by Prof. Stevens in his botanical experiments. The
water works will be in running order about the first of September, and if the water supply is sufficient will entirely take the place of the city water works.
Besides the new water works motor and generator, the Power House has some other new machines that will help to keep the electrical engineers busy. There are in use at the University three different systems of electric lighting, and it is expected that there will soon be five. Besides the Westinghouse Incandescent in the Main Building, and the Wood Arc Light system on the grounds, there is the Wood Incandescent system which will light Spooner Library. The new dynamo for this last system has just been put in. A new arc light dynamo of a different type will probably be obtained this Fall, and many more arc lights used upon the University grounds.
To supply power for this new machinery a new one-hundred and fifty horse power engine, four valve, automatic cut off, built by Russell & Co., of Massillon, Ohio, has been put in place in the Power House and will run the generator and dynamos. The other engine, which has up to this time furnished power for all the machinery, will now operate only the machinery of the Electrical Engineering Machine Shop. New boilers have also been added to those already in the Power House to furnish steam to the engines and to heat the new buildings.
Repairing has been done on the south and west basement walls of Snow Hall.
THE EXPEDITION TO SOUTH DAKOTA.
One of the most successful of the several expeditions that visited the famous Bad Lands this Summer was that from the University of Kansas. Under Dr. S. W. Williston, Riggs, Brown, Case, Overton, Hill and Dickinson took their lives in their hands and became martyrs on the field, in the interest of science. Leaving here June 13, in two days the party had camped near the Cheyenne river. Already parties from Nebraska, Princeton, and Yale were on the ground.
On the first day in camp a heavy storm of