Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-17
ANOTHER ADVANCE.
The Northern Pacific Cutting Loose
from the Little Union Depot.
SPLENDID. IMPOSING. STRUCTURE
To Be Immediately Erected on the
Corner Of Fourth Street and
Broadway.
SPLENDID IMPOSING. STRUCTURE
SOMETHING WORTHY A BIG LINE.
4 Passenger Depot Six to Eight Hun.
dred Feet Long, and Everything
in Magnificent Shape.


Northern Pacific Railroad company lot:
3 and is block 60, of Kittson's addition
to st. Paul. This is 100x100 feet at the
southeast corner of Fourth and Broadway
or the 100 feet square next north of the
company's new headquarters build.
ing, which looks up Fourth
street. The price paid was $3.50
per front foot on Broadway,
or total consideration of $35,0O0. 1t is
the cheapest frontage on Broadway from
Third toSeventb, and yet it was sufficiently
expensive to give assurance that the great
corporation which bought it was not buy
ing it merely as a speculation, but for the
use and occupancy of the company. 1t
now transpires that the purchase was made
for the purpose of erecting a magnificent
passenger depot for the accommodation Of
this great national railway.
Its general character will be like the new
Union depot Of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul, Chicago d Alton, Pittsburg &
Fort Wayne in Chicago. Its grand front
will be on Broadway, extending from
Fourth street towards the headquarters
building already erected, but leaving room
between the two for light and air and
trains. All the passenger trains will run
right into the basement or alongside of it,
so the passengers from trains will disem-
hrr RI ha fnfa +ha
then By wide and convenient stairways
ascend to the passenger parlors and
waiting rooms above on level with Broad
way. The depot will extend eastward
from Broadway along Fourth street
some sir 10 eight hundred feet. The
passenger rooms will be located near the
grand entrance on Broadway. with conve-
nient and handsome accommodations be-
fitting a transcontinental railway. Far
ther along viii be located baggage-rooms
and huge apartment for express Inat-
ter; then viii come apartments for
milk trains, mail coaches, and mail matter,
telegraph and ticket offices, and all the
outfit usually pertaining to the best
equipped modern railroads.
The scheme has been on the taps for
some months past, but has been kept very
quiet. The company will break ground
and commence eZcavating and piling for
the foundations of this magnificent struc-
ture Immediately. The Northern Pacific
is master of the situation, and If
is starting in now in good earnest to pre-
pare for the immense business that is now
crowding all its lines and rolling stock to
its utmost capacity.
Some tins sincei in our real estate arti-
Gle we foreshadowed what must inevitably
come, viz: that these great lines would
never consent to have the passenger bust
ness crowded and cramped into the little
union depot now hardly big enough
to accommodate a single Chicago line
Common sense would indicate that q
great road like the Northern Pacific would
never consent to remain pent in with al
the other roads in ''sardine box" This
road has stepped out boldly and propose:
to carve out (or buy) right of way fol
itself where it can take passengers off {
public street into its own magnificent
palace depot and carry them in its mag
nifcent coaches to the mag
nifcent National park across the
magnificent Rocky mountain range
and land there on the magnificent shore
Of tss great Pacific ocean.
The upper stories of this new palace which
is to ornament lower Broadway will con
tain Office facilities for depot officers and
employees, and it is not improbable that tn,
overflow of the headquarters building vii
find accommodations in the upper storie
of this grand passenger depot. The lay O
the land and the trackage Of the Northern
Pacific is peculiarly well adapted fol
the location of the depot OF
the ground Just purchased. The purchase
of the Rice property and the lands abou
the head Of Mississippi street fixes the
ground upon which the great freight de
pots are to be located and where tn
transfer business is to be done. Then fol
lowing the track of the Northern Pacif
road down along Trout brook we see tha
they have bought ample grounds and fa
cilities to pass all their passenger train
and the coaches filed with st. Paul passen
gers of connecting railroads down t
the corner of Broadway and Fourt
streets, where they will land them in tn
very business heart of the city. It is
splendid piece of policy on behalf of thi
road, and it forever sBchors the psssenge
business to the business center of our cit,
Now look out for the Manitoba and th
Canadian Pacific, for they viii not willingl
surrender an iota of advantage to thei
great rival. This purchase and projet
fixes Broadway and Mississippi streets G
the great central artery runnin
at right angles to the Mississippi rive
With the machine shops, freight depo
and terminal facilities at one end at tt
head of Mississippi street, and the mo:
commodious and magnificent passenge
depot in the Northwest and the terminu
of 2,100 miles of river navigation at IL
other, these streets cannot fail to be tn
great thoroughfare of the city.
John a. Mccall Jr., is the new insuran;
department superintendent of New Yor
at Albany.