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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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mense; structures are not, always
greatly impressed with the extent
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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
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GALLED HOME
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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
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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
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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
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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
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