VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, [4] ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 17:36:38 05/08/10 Sat
Author: Randall K. (Randy) Wilson '70
Subject: Re: Tech Trivia Question
In reply to: Donna Ray '51 's message, "Re: Tech Trivia Question" on 08:38:49 05/08/10 Sat

For Donna:
TECH POWDER MAGAZINE GOING MODERN; STEAM HEAT TO REPLACE OLD STOVE

One of the historic landmarks of Indianapolis is going modern after more than 75 years.
Beginning with this fall, steam heat will replace the old school house type of stove which has heated the old powder magazine at Arsenal Technical High School.
Erected in 1865 for the storage of powder for the Union forces in the Civil War, the magazine has served for more than 20 years as a supply depot for all of the ROTC units in the Indianapolis high schools.
It is from the shelves of the magazine that Col. Will H. Brown, military property custodian for the Indianapolis public schools since 1933 has issued uniforms and paraphernalia to ROTC student of Arsenal Technical, Shortridge, George Washington, Emmerich Manual, and Crispus Attucks high schools.
However, according to Col. Brown the old stove is on its way out not because it fails to provide enough heat in the winter but because it does not abide by the many signs which still mark the site of the magazine: “No Smoking.”
The military custodian’s chief problem has been to keep the government’s uniforms clean. This he said, has been impossible when the smoke which sometimes fills the supply depot is mingles with the soot from the Indiana coal which belches forth from the flue outside.
Incidentally he said the stove burned from 10 to 20 tons of coal each winter.
The Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners Tuesday night, upon the recommendation of J.E. McGaughey, superintendent of buildings and grounds voted to install steam heat in the magazine, the estimated cost to be $383.73. (that would cost $4,477.00 in 2006)
The steam line to the shower rooms at the Tech stadium will be tapped and a unit heater with blower arrangement will be installed on the west wall of the magazine.

*Source* The Indianapolis Star July 31, 1942

Randall K. Wilson Class of 1970

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.