University to Charge for Room Electric Appliances

Students will be charged fees next year for having electrical appliances in their rooms when a University-wide tightening of regulations on electrical equipment is put into effect.

Men will be required to register appliances rated 100 watts or more with janitors and House Superintendents, Charles C. Pyne, assistant to vice-President Reynolds, reported yesterday.

There will be a charge assessed in proportion to the size of the appliances.

Inspectors from the Department of Buildings and Grounds will check the appliances and make sure that they can be sustained by available wiring. Approved items will be marked with a sticker.

According to Pyne, the new check will be introduced as a safety measure against fires. The money collected will go to improve inadequate room wiring all over the University.

Refrigerators will cost their owners $4.50 a year; hot plates, electric blankets, and space heaters, $2.50; and iron's, toasters, and percolators, $1.50.

Radios and phonographs will be exempt from charge.