Annual catalogue of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi . of stone and terra-cotta. It is of the slowburning construction type, which is generally recognized by allleading mill engineers as the most suitable for cotton mill the first floor are located recitation rooms, designing room, dye-ing laboratory, dyehouse, exhibition room, power and handloomweaving department, cloth room and finishing department, engineroom, gin room, etc., etc. The second floor is devoted to cardingand spinning departments, warp preparation department and tothe department of knitting. The bu
Annual catalogue of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi . of stone and terra-cotta. It is of the slowburning construction type, which is generally recognized by allleading mill engineers as the most suitable for cotton mill the first floor are located recitation rooms, designing room, dye-ing laboratory, dyehouse, exhibition room, power and handloomweaving department, cloth room and finishing department, engineroom, gin room, etc., etc. The second floor is devoted to cardingand spinning departments, warp preparation department and tothe department of knitting. The building is equipped with the latest and most approvedsystem of automatic sprinklers, furnished by the General Fire Ex-tinguisher Co., of Providence, B. I. The Sturtevant system of heating and ventilating cotton mills,from the B. F. Sturtevant Co., Boston, Mass. The Drosophore and Vortex systems of humidifying, fromthe American Moistening Co., Boston, Mass. The power is furnished by a 125-horse-power Sioux CorlissEngine, built by the Murray Iron Works Co., Burlington, Iowa,. Mississippi A. and M. College 39 and is transmitted to the different departments by the Americansystem of rope transmission, as furnished by the Bodge Manufac-turing Co., Mishawaka, Ind. The entire system of shafting, hangers, pulleys, frictionclutches, etc., was supplied by the Jones and Laughlins Co., Ltd.,Pittsburg, Pa.; and all necessary belting by Messrs. Fayerweather &Ladew, of New York City, N. Y., and the Jewel Belting Co., cfHartford, Conn. The electrical equipment consists of a motor, from the West-inghousse Electric and Manufacturing Co., Pittsburg, Pa., and alarge generator for furnishing lights and current for motor, fromthe Sprague Electric Co., New York City. EQUIPMENT. The equipment of the Mississippi Textile School exceedsthat of any other similar institution in the world devoted exclu-sively to giving instruction in the manufacture of cotton goods andyarns, and we invite comparison. CAKDING
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