St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-31
MINNEAPOLIS MILLS.
Head Mi1lers. MillWrights and Nil

the details, as rapidly as they developed, of
the forthcoming annual excursion and pic
mic at Lake Minnetonka on June 90. Sec
rotary Clark furnishes the following adj
ditional information: As the different
railroads had not all given rates on trans
portatiOn, the road that the millerS will go
over and the point on Lake Minnetonka
where they will hold the picnic, was left
unsettled. The style of invitations to be
used was left with the committee having
that matter in charge. The invitations will
be of unique character, being printed on
boiling cloth and enclosed in a miniature
flour barrel. Mr.. Lockerbie, of the COM
mittee on games, stated that some steps had
been taken toward enlisting the MinnetOnka
yacht club and getting it to arrange a
regatta as one feature of the day. Foot
ball, boat racing, base ball. sack racing and
other games were mentioned as features OF
the day that would be provided for the fun
loving classes. Head Millers Scott and
Wright and Messrs. o. P. Briggs, W. P.
Northway and v l.. Rice were appointed a
committee to solicit the machine shops OF
the city to shut down on the day of the ex-
cursion. to enable their employees to attend.
Some of our millers, says the Northwest
ness. are DESTROYS of having the improve
ments to be made ON the West side canal
carried out in July. This work will neces-
down for month, and some time ago the
four weeks between Aug. Is and Sept. Is
were mutually settled upon by the mlllers
and power company when this should oc-
cur A large number of the mills are now
cbut 1oxxy,, on1 tho unillaVc would iiEa tO
have the time of doing the work changed to
the month of July Mr.. de la Barre, agent
of the power company, opposes the change,
and says that the work must be done at the
time agreed on. He states that he has
made calculations on that date and cannot
disturb them without mourning large addi-
tional expense to his company, and the
greatest inconvenience as well. He further
says that the hump ON the bottom of the
canal and near the center will certainly be
removed, statements to the contrary not
withstanding. This hump, he informs us,
is about two feet higher than the lowest
level of the canal the bottom at the Pal
isade mill and at the head gates being about
on level.
The new Pillsbury B mill, with Head
Miller Miller at the helm, will be ready for
flour making early next week 1t was
started up for the first time on Thursday,
to test the machinery. 1t has fifty sets of
double roller machines, and eight runs of
stones, and will have daily capacity of
], 800 barrels of flour. The entire work of
fitting up the mill has been done by E. P.
Allis & Co., and has occupied about four
months. The machinery tested yesterday
worked smoothly and run with very little
noise. The main belt is SO inches in width
and 1858 feet long. running from the base
ment to the attic. The mill is lighted by
electricity, the Edison incandescent burners
being used.
Head Miller Scott and wife have returned
from Niagara Falls. Humason was at his
old home at Rochester on Tuesday, and
Tamm. Helfrich and Wilson went fishing.
1t is expected three of the large mills that
ran along in spite of the dizziness last week
will shut down tomorrow. The bottom is
knocked out of the -four market.
Albert Buckman, who broke his ankle
and lost the foot at Washburn mills on
Tuesday, was an unmarried German who
lived in st. Paul.
A strong effort will be made to induce
the MinnetOnl1a Yacht club to hold re-
gatta on the day of the head millers' picnic.
William Barber got pair of twins in his
house last week, and John Washburn a
brand new daughter.
Head Miller Schech of St. Paul came
down last week to see how mills are run
here.
Within the last year over seven thousand
visitors hove registered at the Pillsbury A
mill.
The river has risen steadily all week and
kept the canal booming full.