Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22

Ing up space which could otherwise be used
for seating spectators The convention hall
will have q finished appearance Mime
apolis has gotten an army of decorators at
work and even the posts which heretofore
have been painted dirty blue, and which
looked rather unsightly have been covered
with bronze.
Tho Pillars VIII He in Its Way
These o osts are twice as big around as q
telegraph pole and the chief objection to
them Is that there are so many of them In
the hall. They cannot, however obstruct
the view for any great length of time as the
speaking will be all over the hall and they
can come in the way of only a few of the
spectators There will be restaurant in
the convention building, but this will prob
ably be only for the delegates, the employees
and the newspaper men.
The queerest restaurant is one Just out
side the convention ground. This is to be
sist of big log cabin or number of cabins
built after the style of the logging camps of
Michigan and the Northwest, and here O
regular lumberman's s dinner will be served.
There will be coffee and corn bread and
bacon, and this dinner promises to be both
popular and curious. Minneapolis is great
lumber town, and by this it calls attention
to its immense lumber interests. 1t is, in
fact, the greatest lumber producing point in
the world-at least Minneapolis people say
so. By the last census it had Sc, 800, 900
worth of lumber a year, and this is 30 per
cent more than that OF any other city in the
country.
Saving Up the Logs.
One of the sights to the convention Wis
itors will be these immense booms of logs
IN Iastn ha l.
ing at them. These sawmills work day and
night, and they use electricity to light the
mills at night. They take up the largest of
pine logs, run them into the mill, and with
one saving turn them into boards by great
gang saws which will cut q number of
boards at time. Minneapolis, in fact, cuts
about $50, 000 900 feet of lumber every year
with these mills, and she turns out enough
boards to make q boardwalk foot wide
twice around the world, taking in sea and
land, every year.
The convention visitors will be aston
ished at how these people do business in
the Northwest. Minneapolis has as fine
buildings as you will find In any of the big
cities of the East and it has a half dozen
buildings which would be credit to New
York. The most striking thing, however,
to stranger about Minneapolis is its i'm
mense elevators. These rise in everv direc-
tion, and they are, as 1t were, monuments
for this great grain center. One of these
elevators hold 2,5O0, 900 bushels of grain
and the q elevators which are now in oper-
tion here, hold more than 16, 900, 900 bushels
The most of the grain stored in them is
wheat, and the immense crops of last fall
have packed them to bursting.
The Streets and the Street Cars
am surprised at the electric street rail-
ways of Minneapolis. There are here in
this city and in st. Paul 2S4 miles of street
railways under one management and they
run these cars by electricity. The over
head wire is used and the cars 90 as fast as
IL miles an hour. There is an electric line
between here and st. Paul and there are
lines running out to the suburbs and you
can 60 to St. Paul for dime and to any
place throughout the city for a nickel.
Speaking of board walks, Minneapolis has
as we'll paved streets as you will find in
any city of the country. There are 40 miles
of such streets here. And the most of these
are made of granite and cedar blocks. The
cedar blocks are the most popular except
where heavy hauling is required in which
case granite is used. The city extends over
large territory and like many Western
towns, its corporation limits reach out into
the country. 1t is ten miles long and six
miles wide and as its area is, all told, about
"a miles, it has plenty of room to grow. 1t
has many residences as fine as that of SEN
ator Washburn, which is here shown.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
A of To- O n