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Prof. Wrentmore Goes To Prison

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
November
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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To Superintend New Cell Block Construction

State Saves Money

Prof. Wrentmore Drew the Plans and the Specifications and Will Receive $15 Per Day

When the new cell block which will hold 300 inmates of the Jackson penitentiary is completed it will be one of the first pieces of state work done by the University of Michigan. Bids are to be opened by the prison board on Nov. 30, and it is expected that the work will be done within five months from the start. 

The prison board is said to have had a rather warm session over the appropriation of $147,400 for the cells. Some of the members wanted to give the work to Van Dorn of Cleveland, without asking for other bids, but Thomas J. Navin objected strenuously to this. Navin suggested that as the science of structural iron work is taught in the University of Michigan plans and specifications be requested from that institution. 

The dean of the engineering department recommended Prof. C. G. Wrentmore, and he prepared the drawings. Several steel firms have looked over the plans and pronounce them the best ever prepared. Prof. Wrentmore has been made superintendent of the construction at $15 a day.