Word: plant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...plant in Memorial Hall has just been put into operation, and from now on will supply all the ice used there. The plant has a capacity of 6,000 pounds a day, and has cost about...
...engine to supply power for the ice plant and dynamo in Memorial Hall is now being set up, and will probably be in working order within a month...
During the summer extensive improvements have been made at Memorial Hall. On the north side of the building excavation has been made for a refrigerating and ice-making plant. The work is now well under way, and will probably be completed in November. The excavation is about 25 by 40 feet, and affords room for an ice making plant capable of producing about three times the amount of ice at present consumed by the dining association. The refrigerating plant also will be extensive enough to meet any future needs...
...hall will be lighted by electricity, for which all the equipment has been installed, except the generating plant, which will not be completed for a couple of months. Meanwhile, the electricity will be furnished by the city plant, so that the hall will be lighted by electricity from the beginning of the year...
Circulars have been published by the management of the Arnold Arboretum, asking for subscriptions to the now insufficient endowment fund. They state the aim of the Arboretum and tell of the work already accomplished in spreading the knowledge of the silva of our country. The Arboretum plant is valued at about $3,000,000, and yet its yearly income is barely $7,000. This is quite insufficient to pay for the salaries, the cost of all investigations and an enormous correspondence, the care of the Arboretum grounds, and keeping up and extending the living collections. It is estimated that...