VOL. I. NO. 110 nni uirau mmtn run l'lin nnnin rnn BUILDING AT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE CENTRAL BUILDING TO BE ADDED TO NORTH WING COMPLETED AND IN USE AT 0. A. C. LAST YEAR AGRICULTURAL HALL AND NEW Armory Will Cover More Space Than any College Building of Like Kind in the United States Agricultural Building Will he Next Largest Building on the Ground and Attractive Architecturally College Will Have Many Large Structures When These Buildings Are Finished. - Ground was broken yesterday for the erection of the Central Agricultural Building at 0. A. C, for which the recent legislature appropriated $55,000. " Cate Bros, have the contract of re moving the dirt , and already have four heavy teams and scrapers at work there. It will require practically thirty - days to finish this part of the ;; ..work. Snooks, a Salem contractor, will put up this new building and has contracted to have it finished ready foroccupany by March 1st. ; . - A Magnificent Building The Central building will be of considerable size; ; and of pleasing appearance. With a frontage of 140 feet, depth of 78 and four stories in height it will prove rather imposing. This building is the central part of an immense structure in which is to be gathered practi cally all , of , the agricultural and horticultural work. The north wing of this building, known now as Agricultural Hall, was completed last year and occupied. This wing is a three story brick and cement building 72 x 130 feet.' The south i wing,'., "to be known -as the Horticultural building, will be of exactly the same size, and these two wings, with the large central building and connections, will form one very imposing structure 300 feet frontage by an average of 100 feet in ; depth. The Central building will have a basement or sround floor, besides the four stories above. ; This entire structure when completed will be, the most attractive building mhos irinriT n ARMORY ARE IMMENSE IN SIZE on the grounds, with the excep tion of Prof. Dryden's bungalow incubator house. , The New Armory .. Progress on this building-, is rather rapid, desp ite the, immen sity of the structure. -- The tim ber for the cement work' is all in place and. already several feet of the concrete has been "poured. To stand near, one is given .the impression that enough timber to build a good-sized town as in use there, and the; lines , of the building create- the impression that Capt. McAlexander, ; , when ADNHMN J3 SS2 2S6 sM.' 2i 2 '.-4 if S E-i. Si . - HS!ZS?Sf- 55 6S f-"i SS2 f, 5 SB Iff li II ... - -- .-t:-'s- ; fv-'-T-, ' dL r B -; -jar. -.-v .va? Central Agricultural Building in Course of he planned this building, was ac tuated by a strong desire to in close all the atmosphere between Ninth street and Philomath. Immense Floor Space. The Armory is to be 360 feet long and about 126 feet wide,, the front part two stories, the rear portion single story, with orchard roof, and side walls of concrete eighteen feet high. This will cover a little more than half of a Corvallis block and will be the largest structure of its kind at any. school in . the United States. ; It is designed to make it easy to drill 1000 students 3 1 C- : V. Front Elevation of New Armory ia - inclement weatner. . xne structure will Have no floor, and this fact makes it ideal for great indoor track meets held by the T ' i rm department" of - athletics. The arches will he of steel, the frontage of the t building attrac tive, architecturally, - and the structure, as a whole, will be of striking ' immensity. ' By the time one has explored all corners of the interior he will feel like he has been with Cook or Peary on their North Pole trips. .-; CORVALLIS, BENTON ; COUNTY OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1909 The) Late Great Institution. -People who come from other states" where the Univer sity - or Agricultural. College buildings are confined to two or three v im- t . -' .. . i mense; structures are not, always greatly impressed with the extent I 8 S BS 5 f S i Construction of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege, the regents of which have ever found the smaller separate buildings more satisfactory than the structures' extraordinary in size. Still, O. A. C. has sev eral buildings iar trom small, a list of which follows; including these in course of construction: - Central Building, :. 300x100, four stories. Armory, 360x120. Waldo Hall, 240x96, three stories. . Mechanic Arts building, 472x40 one story. Agricultural Hall, stone, four stories, 125x85. , Mechanical Hall, stone two stories, 110x90. : Cauthorn Hall, ; 160x50 feet, four stories. " Old Armory, 120x70 feet. New Barn, 92x100 feet. Administration building, three story brick, 120x90. To these may be added the Horticultural building, Mining building, M ining Laboratory, Pharmacy building, Shepard Hall costing $22,000; and others. Si L. Kline A GALLED HOME ! I From Seattle comes the word that Lydia Jane Emerick, wife of Iewis Emerick, both of whom are linown here, died there on Friday Lst, at- the' age ' of 80 ye.afs, 8 rrTnfks alt A 97 Aam'-'X -Mtw :: -TiViif. erick. was an aunt of George W. Emerick of this city, and when back in Iowa knew many people now located in Corvallis and Ben ton county. She came to this coast in company with her hus band, her daughter and son-in-law," and two grandchildren from Nebraska City in 1903 and settled in Seattle, where she made her Continued on page two IB- GEO 1 AN S. L KLINE, PROMINENT -SUCCUMBS TBPQjERISYlF HEART HE HAD BEEN ILL BUT FEW DAYS, AND FEW KNEW OF HIS CRITICAL ' CONDITION UNTIL DEATH WAS ANNOUNCED. s WAS BIG MAN IN CORVALLIS Was 53 Years of Age and During His oped one of the Finest Stores in the State Was a Thirty-second Degree - Mason, Head of the State Merchants' Association, and. Mentioned for Governor of the State of Oregon. " ' ? . S. L. Kline, prominent in the business, political and social life of Corvallis and the State, died at his home here today at noon. He had been ill less than a week ji .... . - - and few knew that his illness was in any sense critical, so that news of his death came as a shock to his wide circle of friends and business associates. His death was due to pleurisy of the heart, from which he had suffered intermittently for sev eral years. However, he , had never had serious difficulty be fore and this last illness began only a few days ago. .The " ' community, is' appalled, teviawd, a:thisaddefi .trans migration ,01 one who has so-long nessjcircles, one who, apparently had reason to feel assured of long-continued service and enjoy ment in the magnificent institu tion built up by his business sa gacity and tireless energy. S. L. Kline was born in Cin cinnati, .Ohio; Dec. 18, 1856; came west with his father, L. G. Kline, and located in Corvallis in 1864, when the present business was established. He" was associated S2 STORE CLOSED ACCOUNT OF DEATH PRICE FIVE CENTS MERCHANT AND NOTED IN STATE AFFAIRS. Business Career in this City had Devel. witn nis iatner during his school ing in the Corvallis public schools and Agricuitural College, and in 1882, when the parent retired, he became sole owner and manager of the establishment. . By care ful attention to detail he' built a large business and. a short time ago erected the finest business block in Corvallis, with one ex ception. That building is now equipped with all that is modem for . dry goods establishments, and it has been Mr. Kline's pride "ill Ail 4 a that no grocery store outside of Portland is so perfect in equipment- The Kline business in cludes great wool, grain and bark departments, and his varied in terests made him a figure to be reckoned with throughout this entire section.' S. L. Kline lived in the city, was surrounded with all that money could buy and was just beginning to enjoy heartily the fruits of an energetic life. At the time of his death he was serving his second term as President of the Oregon Retail Merchants Association, to which position he was re-elected with out apposition at the end of his Continued on page two