Money Will Be On Hand

The board of regents held a long session last night concerning the new science building. The lobby was filled with medical professors, each desirous of seeing that their particular brand does not suffer when it comes to parceling out the rooms. "If every professor gets all that he assures us is absolutely necessary," said Regent Lawton, "it will take $300,000 to construct the building." Secretary Wade was asked if the Auditor-General is going to make any trouble about furnishing funds for the building. Said he: "He can't. The money raised by taxation for the University is a specific tax. It cannot be withheld. When the one-quarter mill tax bill went through the legislature, it anticipated one year's tax. The Auditor-General pleaded that he did not have the money on hand, and, as we had no immediate use for it, we allowed the matter to go over until the present month, when he is making his collections. That will give us an extra $92,000. "How long will it take to construct a $200,000 building?" he was asked. "I do not know, but it will take over a year, I should judge," he answered. Therefore, if the building is started next spring, it will not be finished until the fall of 1901. By that time the money will have accumulated, so that it can be paid or provided for very nicely. The architects are already very busy in gathering ideas of exactly what is wanted, and will work up the ideas into rough plan for the next meeting of the board. One architect, yesterday, had a plaster of paris model of the front of the building, which he proposed as a plan