St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-19
AMONG THE DEBRIS.
How the Capitol Building is Planning
Out Under the Supervision
Process.

Architect Stevens and another gentleman
talented in that profession spent considerable
time just under the State Capitol roof yester-
day in quiet investigation of trusses and
Mexican adobe appliances therein, and it is
hardly probable that the report of the investi-
eating committee will be given in to the
governor before the middle of the week.
In the center of the senate chamber yes
terday rising like an Indian mound on a
level prairie, was a huge heap of debris Of
fire proofng which would have sent pair
figures of ton, which had been pecked off of
the side wall where the hole is to be torn out
of the massive brick work to admit the
desk of the next president. The hall OF rep
resentatives, whose ceiling looks as though
I it had been in an Arkansas rough and tum-
BILE fight, showed less litter on the floor, but
the portion of the ceiling around the sky
light looked sagged in, while one Of the re-
Gently doctored truss beams still showed
bending propensities.
On the same floor and directly fronting the
main entrance to the law library, the fire.
proof ceiling, with mortar and hard finish
overskirts, showed signs of soon bidding
farewell to its fish hook supports, and a COM
mittee room in the third story above also ex-
hibited similar signs of unhealthy suspen
sion as to its topping out.
In the large room where the great truss
slipped week ago displaying such danger
GUS signs of hernia in this adolescent root
structure, the piles of debris on the floor and
that of the halls adjacent did not seem tc
have diminished, although laborers were
running stretcher trains of the material down
stairs and out the building constantly. Here
was observed laborer taking big blocks OF
| slices out of division partition as one
would remove cakes from the frozen surface
of ryer for the stock OF an fee house, OF
cut a watermelon in the Delmonico style fol
a dinner table. This was another eye-opener
as to the peculiar structure of the interior OF
this wonderfully built edifice, which like
| Soiomon's temple must have had more noise
of the trowel in it than OF the hammer when
It was Ht7oarn together.
The GLOBE representative had prided him
self that he had pretty thoroughly explor ed
the Demorest dress pattern of the capito
roof when chap in felt hat aud iron-bowed
| SpectacieS. EHO1 NE encountered Stal0lng
amid the scoria sagging and hanging from
above and scattered under foot, beckoned
him forward to an ascent to the roof. When
that eninence was reached and city and
bluff and river stood out in grand panorama
before the eye. this mysterious individual
seized the scribe as he thought to hurl him
! from the lofty heights to the sun-searched
and dying sod below, but only to conduct
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tower into which he pointed his index finger
with the air of Napoleon commanding hi.
tired troops to pick up another peak il
the Alps between France and Italy
To the inside of q spider web OF small
tfmbers braced with smaller wooden stud.
nailed thereto, 1.-THE spider evidently havin.
been short of nails, was stuck mud towe
resem bling the roof Of the habitation CT al
aristoctatic Esquimsux. On beaming
questioning look AZ the exhibitor he ex
claimed, ssbehold the inner dome OF III