Word: fire-proof
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...appeal for money, and details some of the pressing needs of the Observatory, among which is the demand for funds for the care of the collection of 182,277 photographs. This collection is unique and gives the only existing history of the stellar universe for the past 20 years. Fire-proof buildings are especially needed for the library, photographic laboratory and the workshop. The total number of volumes and of pamphlets in the library on October 1, 1905, was 11,459 and 24,474, respectively...
Professor Pickering makes in his introductory address to the President, an urgent appeal for money, and details some of the pressing needs of the Observatory, among which is the demand for new fire-proof buildings. In particular is it essential that the library of 29,393 volumes and pamphlets, one of the most complete of its kind in the country, should be protected from fire...
...photographic negatives at the Observatory, will be built on the cast of the present building in the form of an ell about thirty-three feet long by twenty-seven wide. This addition, which will more than double the present capacity for storing negatives and valuable books, will contain seven fire-proof rooms, and a water-tight basement. When final plans are made, work will be begun, and it is expected that the addition will be finished by the first of next October...
...basement has been remodeled, much of the old piping and machinery has been replaced by newer material, and better accommodations have been arranged for the help. The old floor of the dining hall was taken up this summer and replaced by fire-proof concrete construction, covered with a new hard wood flooring...
...proposed changes, the most important and expensive will be that of replacing the present floor of the hall by one that will be fire-proof. The present wooden floor and beams will be replaced by iron beams, surmounted by brick arches with a cement covering. On this it was originally intended to put a mosaic or tiled floor, but as this would have prevented holding Senior dances, a hard oak floor will be substituted, and the expense of this will be shared in all probability by the Association and the funds of future Class Day Committees until...