St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-25
TITS LARGE ENOUGH.
The Committee and Commission
See no Reason for Changing the
Court House Plans.

The Committee and Commission
See no Reason for Changing the
Court House Plans.
The committee CT the chamber of COM
merce appointed to urge the court house
commissioners to add another story to the
building met the board yesterday afternoon
in Auditor O'Brien's office. and were COM
pletely knocked out in the first round.
Messrs. Rice, Dawson, Bigelow, Hen
erickson, Day and Gillian. of the COM
msSioners, were present, and Gen. Bishop,
VIM. Lindeke and Secretary Phelps. the
committee of the chamber of commerce.
besides Architect BaSSfOrd, L. s. Norton,
Peter BerkeE and others. The meeting
was entirely informal, and after Mr.. Lin
decke had stated the object OF the COM
mite, the merits of the new court house
were talked over very freely. Architect
Bassford explained, from a photograph Of
the building, that there was twenty-eight
feet more stone work to be put on the cor
nerS and forty eight feet more on the cen
ter in front, making the building as high
again as at present, and giving distance
of 1O2 feet from the water table to the top
of one of the corner paviliOns, etc.
The substance of the committees
they had heard the engineering
department was not to have sufficient room.
and there was general impression that the
building was not high enough for its use
Mayor Rice stated that there had been a
consultation of city and county officers to
give the commission an idea of the room
wanted, and the discussion brought out the
fact that there is a large amount of room in
the basement which will hot be needed,
and that there are accommodations for the
school board and water board, neither of
which bodies will move into the building
There was a general discussion over the
size of public buildings elsewhere, and the
board showed pictures of large number of
the largest in the country, most Of which
are smaller than the one building here. DR..
Day had been commissioned by the board to
TRAVEL ABOUT THE. COUNTRY
and look all the public buildings over, and
vast amount of information, including
these pictures, was collected. AS far as
height was concerned, but one public build
ing could be mentioned that was higher
than the court house, and that is the Gus
tom honse in St. Louis. MeSSrS. Rice, Big
Glow, Dawson and Day had never heard
that there was not going to be room enough,
and wanted to hear of some good reason for
changing the plan. Mr.. Dawson said that
if there were 100000 people in st.
Paul. it would be worth while talking
about the CHANGE During the con-
versation it developed thai the building
is one-fifth larger than the Ryan hotel, over
one thousand feet around the water table,
with 432 windows and 22S doors. 1t was
also spoken of that many of the buildings
in this city, as the union depot, had been
built too small. Before leaving. the COM
mittee was thoroughly satisfied. Mr.. Lin
deke thought that every want had been an
ticipated by the commissioners. Mr..
Phelps felt thoroughly satisfied to have the
present plan carried out. Gen. Bishop
stated that personally he had never been
dissatisfied with the building, was put on
the committee without his consent and that
was the reason he was present. He was
satisfied that it would be good while be-
fore any more room would be needed. He
thought the time would come when the city
and county would be consolidated, as there
was no need of county and city treasurer,
a comptroller and a county auditor, etc.
He saw no reason for charging the building
and this had been his impression before, and
WAS NOW