Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-17

Governor Pillsbury Occupies His Rooms In
the New Wing of the Capitol Location OF
the Other s--Representatiye Hall,
New Committee Rooms, Furnishing. Etc.
Etc.
The governor formally took possession of his
new quarters in the new wing of the capitol
yesterday. As he personally was unable to be
present, his clerk, Capt Macy, efficiently filed
the executive chair. AS the occupancy of the
new wing will cause several changes in the
location of the State Offices, it will be well to
mention them for the public infor-
nation. On entering the building from
tho south on the left of the
hall is the room of the judges of the supreme
court, eighteen feet square, which they will
continue to occupy. The clerks room next to
IL, and of the same size, will in the future be
occupied by the attorney-general while the
clerk OF the court will remove over the hail to
the offices hitherto occupied by the adutant-
general and attorney-general--two rooms
eighteen feet square each. The railroad com
missioner remains III his old quarters and oc-
cupies the whole apartment, twenty-five feet
by twenty-five. The State treasurer also re-
mains In his present Office, which, including
the vault, Is of the same dimensions as the
railroad commissioners. The fine office,
twenty feet by forty, occupied by the State au-
dltor, will be given up to the Acknowledgement
Inc last two named open upon the hall entered
from the east. Opening upon the north hall
are the rooms vacated by the State superinten-
dent OF lnstruction-the one Is by %, the
other 10 by IL. These will be occupied by the
public examiner and the secretary of the board
of immigration. The insurance commissioner
will retain his present offices opposite to the
last mentioned. The secretary of state
will not be moved from his
ant MI ont xyopfx ~ rft..
Governor old rooms are being taken posses
sion of by the State superintendent of schools
and the State board Of education. They are
each 22x25 and are being fitted with new book
cases, report racks correspondence pigeon
holes, etc. On the second floor the accommo-
dation of the State library will be increased BY
an apartment 22x2715 feet taken from the old
Senate chamber. The rest of the chamber is
divided up into three large committee rooms, a
cloak and wash room and the post office. Be-
tween the last committee room and the cloak
room is the stair case leading to the gallery of
the House,
The House itself is fine hall 95 feet by 50
feet, and 10 feet from floor to ceiling. Men
were employed yesterday frescoing the ceiling
and walls. The basement of the new wing will
be occupied by the Historical society, which
will give them a fine hall so feet by 80. Their
old quarters have been assigned to the secretary
OF State for store room for paper and docu-
ments.
The Governor rooms form handsome suite
OF three apartments, finely proportional,
handsomely finished aid furnished
with excellent taste. The reception
room, in which the secretary and
clerk have their desks, is forty feet by twenty
seven; beyond this is second room, twenty
three by twenty-five, and within this again is
private withdrawing room, about eighteen
feet square. These three rooms are Handsomely
papered and carpeted, exactly alike, Capt.
Macy, to whom the task of choosing carpets,
ETC., was consigned, having displayed his judg-
ment and taste to most excellent effect--the
rich, subdued colors of the carpet, the hand
some marble top stands and tables, with their
white and gold porcelain furniture, the neatly
upholstered chairs and lounges, the massive
escritoire and polished writing tables, the
unique designs in gas brackets and gasoliers,
form tout ensemble of elegance and comfort
behtting Governors State apartments
The remainder of the first floor of the new
wing is taken up by the entrance hall (from the
west OF Wabashaw side) Of fifty feet long and
twenty wide, and the State auditors new quar-
tiers, which are in one large room fifty feet by
forty. but divided into three compartments by
counters. 1t will be some little time before ali
the officers will get properly settled in their
new quarters, the usual scrubbing. cleaning.
calcimining, paper patching, etc., incident t.
moving necessarily causing some delay.