Ways That Are Dark

Under a state contract with the A. Harvey's Sons Manufacturing Company, of Detroit, the work of connecting the various University buildings by steam pipes laid in subterranean conduits has been begun. These conduits will be dy2 feet deep by 5 feet wide and when all is finished one may walk bolt upright beneath the surface from the new boiler house to every building about the campus. The boiler house on the east side will be torn down, a new boiler house tjuiit on the west side and the boilers removed there. Two new ones will be added, making fourteen in all. The boiler house will be large enough to admit of an electric light plant, which will be placed later, the wires to occupy one side of the conduits and the steam heating pipes, the other. For the purpose of these improvements an apI propriation of $44,000 was made by the legislature. The smoke-stack, or chimney, of the boiler house will, it is said, be 150 feet high.