St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-10
SKY-SORAPING STRUCTURES.
Rapid Growth Which has Made Lofty
Buildings Necessity in Ohiacgo and
Will do the Same in st. Paul.
How Various Kinds of Business are
Transacted In One Of the Ele-
waited Buildings.
A Young Man Who Might Remain I'm
der One Roof for Year To-
gether.
Special Correspondence.


CHICAGO, April 81 wonder if de-
scription Of some of the recently erected
utility buildings of Chicago would interest
st. Paulites. L think so, because st. Paul
Is city of progress and although the
structures l am about to describe may not
be in demand in your city just yet. still any
one who is cOgnizant of the remarkable
growth of the twin cities in the past and
preSenC, cannot avoid the conclusion that it
is only question of time-and that time
limlted-when there will be a vast metrOpO-
lis in the Northwest and that the needs Of
the hour, in the matter of resident and bust
ness accommodations will be as great as
those of Chicago to-day.
l don't desire to boom Chicago. / have
growing feeling of disloyalty and disre-
spect for this wicked city of the West and
the comments and judgments which the
press Of our sister cities venture do not tend
in any measurable degree to obviate the i'm
pressions am rapidly forming. The GLOBE,
l notice, contributes its share of disparaging
remarks upon our tastes, our laws, our
methods of enforcing the laws, etc, and
some of its editorial wit comes so near the
mark that its Chicago readers-and there
are many of them-feel like kicking the
GLOBE all over the globe and consigning
its staff to place even more wicked than
Chicago.
But to return to the switching-off place.
1t was not many years ago that four and
| hve-Story building was remarkable struc-
| ture in this city. 1t was foolishness to
| build higher when there was so much spare
room on the ground. With the first great
| boom which started after the fire, however,
new era in public building construction
was inaugurated and some of the structures
| which were erected then,
ERECTED IN A DAY,
you might almost say, are models to-day of
the builders craft and the architects in
genuity, presenting far more respectable
appearance than does the new court house
with its crumbling walls and settling foun-
datiOn.
These buildings of which speak were
five, six and some of them seven stories
| high. The elevator system was not as per-
| feet then as now, but still, what there was
in the shape of elevating parapharnalia was
utilized to good advantage and the land
lords of blocks of this kind generally
secured good rental. But Chicago
has grown very rapidly as
everyone knows. Space in the business
center of the city, by which / mean To in
clude an area of about one mile square, is
becoming in such demand that to use the
lriShman's expression, 'they have to stack
that when building to meet the require
ments of business is erected to height of
eleven or twelve stories. thus making the
ground on which it stands yield for service
able purposes dozen times its actual area.
Such buildings, and several of them we
have in Chicago to-day, and many more,
their cOunterparts, are in rapid process Of
construction. Lightning elevators make
the twelfth floor as accessible as the first,
and in many respects more preferable on
account. for instance, of the elevation from
the hum-drum noise below and the greater
intensity of daylight afforded. Do not let
the reader imagine that the demand for Of
fee room alone has OccaSiOned this neceS-
Sity for high buildings. The natural infer
ence, know, would be that the floors from
number two to ten, or whatever the top
} number might be, would be
DEVOTED TO OFFICES.
BY no means is this the case. In MANY Of
these building you can find a prosperous
tailoring establishment on the fifth floor A
blazing sign from the sixth story may in
form you that Cash & Co. are carrying an
extensive line of gents furnishing goods.
Jewsharp Bros. may have the entire third
floor for pianos and organs, and then it
} may not surprise you to discover that the
first floor, barring perhaps q saloon or cigar
stand, is occupied entirely for office room
which you would expect to be at the root
instead.
Some of these structures have apart
mentS for light housekeeping or rooming on
the Office floors. One in particular that
call to mind is arranged in this way, and ac-
2 commodities a number OF tenents who pro-
fess to be quite too, too. The apartments
: are elegantly furnished in hard wood and
| fitted with all modern improvements. The
G building is full ten stories high, and has a
t large basement which is scarcely below the
walk | am acquainted with a tenant in
this building who, if he were so inclined
could remain in the building for year with
: out finding it necessary from any physical
cause to step outside its doors. He is a
clerk in an establishment on the third floor.
He sleeps on the eight floor, eats on the
: ninths-there being nice restaurant there
4 with the kitchen on the tenth-takes his
q bath and has his tonsOTial work done in a
barber shop in the basement, and gets his
drinks and cigars at the saloon next to the
barber shop, both of which have
ENTRANCES FROM WITHIN.
: If this young man wants clothes. q tailor
3 ing establishment on the second floor will
S nit him out. If he wants to play billiards
S or pool he can be accommodated in elegant
Il billiard parlOrs on the same floor. If he
4 wants tooth extracted or filled, dentist
on the fourth floor will do the job at g
Is reasonable figure. If he is sick, doctor
" near the dentist will prescribe for him anG
a the druggist in the basement will Go the
Al compromising. A halter has the corner room
r on the second floor, and misft clothiel
m encourages economy in living, directly be-
,s meath the dealer in plugs" Several law
il yers will give small advice and take large
N fees on the fourth floor. My friend ha:
"A but to enter one of the many elevators, an
= nounce the floor desired and ne is there be-
q fore the words are dead on his lips.
~ Verify this young man is fortunate dur
If ing this season of mud and water especially
ir in Chicago where it is considered next to
"a crime to clean the streets or sweep the side
# walks.
m ALDERMANIC ELECTIONS.
7" Chicago holds her aldermanic and tow
r elections next Tuesday and lively time i
le expected. An alderman is to be electe,
ar from each ward and an assessor, collector
lie supervisor and clerk from each town. /
I'll 1t may not be generally understood tina
10 this great city if divided into three towns
I'd the dividing line being the Chicago river
d. Tuesday is town meetin'" day but in
stead of three there will be about $50 meet
ms in the city, some of them very har
and hot ones no doubt. The candidates i
the field are mostly old stagers. Many o
them have ''bobbed up regularly ever
spring for the last ten years. c. NJ. G.
ia. Washington Male Beauties.
A Washington Photographer.
nd Last, as best of all, come the stateSme
who are sometimes called the professions
beauties. The particular star of this qual
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