St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-04
Crash Towels viii Be Made
Over in the Big Building
Hereafter.
Arrangements Made for Util-
izing the Exposition Space
and Power.
Tramps Pack the Workhouse
and OvepcpoWd the Quiet
Alleys.
Democrats HAY Organize the
Council - Metzlers in
Court Again.

The Minneapolis Exposition building,
instead of remaining tenantless bar
rack for ten or eleven months OF the
year. is going to be turned into hive
of industry. Within two or three
months the big engines in that building,
capable of furnishing l,000-horse power,
will be started up, and the power Will
be used to drive the spinning jenny and
the loom.
For three or four years the project OF
turning the exposition into manufact-
uring plant, thereby putting to use the
power that lies there idle the greater
part of the year, has been discussed
with more or less seriousness. Latterly
the discussion Of that project has be-
come really serious, and now all that
remains to be done before the eXpoSl-
ton building will be mandatory IS
to place the machinery in position and
fire up the engines. The arrangements
toward this end were completed yeSter-
day.
The Minneapolis Hosiery company,
incorporated a couple of days ago, will
pied by the Minneapolis linen mill, on
Central avenue and Fourth avenue
northeast. The hosiery mill will be in
operation by the middle of January. 1t
will give employment to 200 hands from
the start, double the number now EN-
ployed by the linen mill. The linen
mill will find home in the Exposition
building, on the first floor.
The Minneapolis linen mill is not big
enough to occupy the whole OF that
floor Negotiations are now in prog
ress wit hseveral of the linen manu-
featuring companies of the country
looking toward the consolidation of
them with the Minneapolis company.
In the event of consolidation, and of
the consolidation there is no doubt, the
company will find ample quarters on
the first floor Of the exposition
facilities will then be. enlarged
and the variety of product will
increased. As soon as the new plant is
III operation, it will make, in addition to
crash tOWelling. large variety of linen
goods, including Turkish towelling and
the finer qualities of linen and hemp
tWineS. The operation of the present
millbY the linen company has demon
Strated that the manufacture of linen in
Minneapolis is not an experiment. The
Minneapolis company is turning out as
fine grade of crash towelling
as can be found in the mar
ket. But the output is too
small for profit. The linen company
can manufacture, with proper facilities,
nearly four times as much linen for
almost as little money as the operation
of the present plant costs. TO enlarge
the plant where it is would require
good deal of building. The company
can go into the exposition building, uti-
lie the power there, have plenty OF
room, and be able to turn out enough
linen to make the enterprise profitable.
The utilization of the first floor for
manufacturing purposes will in no way
interfere with the annual Minneapolis
industrial exposition, nor will 1t inter-
fere with the plans now under cOnsid
Grafton for establishing a permanent
music hail in the building. The second
and third floors will remain for those
purposes. The establishment of the
linen mills on the first floor is expected
to be rather an added attraction,
permanent exhibit open twelve months
in the year instead of only one month.