St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-23

work in the yards with scab stone
cutters, the bosses will be compelled
to negotiate with the stonecutters' union
for a settlement of the difficulty. or
close the yards. A communication has
been sent to the secretary of the bosses
association by Secretary Ward, OF the
union, stating that work for all the
stonecutters IN st. Paul can be had In
Chicago at the scale of pay demanded
here, and announcing the Willingness OF
the union men to negotiate for settle
ment before leaving the city. No
answer has been received, and. says the
secretary, the first advance must now
come from the other side.
The same old difficulty is agitating the
local bricklayers which has created dis
sension in the ranks for the last tEo
or three years. The two local
unions are engaged in the ever recur7
ring difficulty on the wage and hour
question, and the local board of the ma
tlonal union is endeayoring to induce
the st. Paul union to agree to the hour
and wage scale in use by the other Or
ganization. On Wednesday evening"
last discussion of the question was
had at a joint meeting OF the unions,
but without satisfactory result. Another
meeting TO the same end will occur on
Thursday evening next, but no settle
ment of the difficulty is looked for by
those best qualified to judge.
The Building Inspectors View.
sit is pretty hard to tell about what
the result of the building for the year
will be at this time" said Building In
spector Johnson. "a great many bust
ness blocks will be put up, and great
Of
ranging in price from say $1,000 to S10.-
600, There will be some fine buildings,
but the tendency seems to be as ! have
mentioned The largest blocks will not
start in early, but will be commenced
later on-big buildings ranging in cost
from 100000 to 100000. Unless some
labor difficulties or financial crises
should occur, should say
the aggregate of building would
be greater this than it was last year. L
think the tendency is to build in the
nearer sections of the interurban dis
trict. We have issued more permits for
building one mile this side OF Hamllne
than ever before in the history of the
office. From the inquiries | have made
/ gather that the near suburban dis
tricts are the ones that the principal
building will be in. The character of
the structures will be similar to those
of last year. There will not be as many
large buildings as two years ago. When
the record exceeded all others. In that
season structures like the New York
Life Insurance building were being
put up. 1t is possible there
may be as many as ip
that season, but 1 do not
look for it. The prediction was when
the number of large apartment build
| ings were going up that there were too
many and it was being overdone. am
told that this class of structures are
nearly all filled up. The expectations of
the most sanguine have been exceeded
in regard to the apartment buildings.
One thing about the buildings now go
ing up, be they cheap or expensive, Is
the fact that they are better than those
of similar class heretofore erected.
More attention is now being paid to the
sanitary features. On the whole, l
think the outlook is very favorable"
The relative building, as taken from
the inspectors books, is shown below:
The months of January, February and
March are alone included, the figures
for this year being in March up to yes
terday. 1t will be seen that this por-
tom of March. 1890. exceeds the whole
of March in 1888, which was the banner
| year. nt