Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-30
HOW IL LOOKS NOW
Things Topsy Tursey in the
New Court House.
DESCRIPTION OF TIE ROOMS
How the Chambers Look Whsse the
County Fathers VIII Discuss Mo-
msntous Questions

excitement, and yet there - sufficient |
proyoeation 10 create cyclone. |
Nothing il ready for the transfer. The |
upholsterers have not finished laying |
the carpets, the pAinters and GLACIERS |
have not put the fiasshlna touches GA |
tho interior decorations, the carpenters |
are ELL there. the plumbers are plumb |
ing and the gas men are casing, anu |
the scrubbers are scrubblng and mean
while dusty files from the county
clerks office. immense safes from the
tfeasurer's Office, stacks OF calt-covered
Law books. rickety tables, chairs, racks
and cases wers being stored ID the wide
corridors awaiting their places IN the
respective quarters assigned to the
respective county offices. In ths rooms
| set apart for tue treasurer there Is
anywhere else. Mr.. Stebb.ns Will have
. place "a cute as parlor and Mt as II
counting room To receive and pay out
the cash Ut the people. None of the
old furniture will be used except the
ponderous safes which now stand on
the walk at the east entrance, awaiting
the pleasure OF the building committee
and The mover.
The county clerks Offices IN the
southwest corner are by odds the hand
soonest and cheerlest suite IN the big
building. The arrangements so lar
made are complete in every detail.
Awaising the File Cases.
The file cases have not yet been re-
| ceiyed, but will arrive IN time 10 be
placed In position for the grand dedica-
ton. Few OF the effects OF the old
| office have been removed. Old files
| bearing the records OF broken marital
knots and business enterprises, vel
lowed by advancing years. are piled up
in the main room as If they were OF
lit.le moment, past. present or future.
The new desks and tables are conven-
| lent atfalrs tor some purposes, but Will
| prove of little value or utility IN the
clerks office. They are chiefly con-
spicuous for their number, which Is
greatly in excess of necessity.
The quarters of the probate judge
are almost palatiaI. The carpets, rich
in texture and pleasing in color, are
nearly all laid. The vaults, desks,
chars and fixtures are all new, and
| when Judge Perkins eteps from his
present quarters into these magnificent
rooms he will have reason to believe
that he has been translated from
charcoal pit into the main chamber OF
u Sandringham.
The registers Office is not ready, al
though the room to be used by the fair
copyists Is finished. The trouble lies
in the fact that tho register, like the
others, is waiting for something. 1t is
not saying too much TO say that these
offices when ready for occupancy will
DO uuriyaled by any in this state.
On the second floor everybody is in
hurry. The circnit court rooms. spa
cious and airy, are in the hands OF the
upholsterers. The bang Of the tack
hammer and the intermittent excla-
nation not at all suggestive OF piety
laid whether the ten commandments
stand or fall.
Rug-Like Carpets
The carpets are laid after the manner
of laying rugs, leaving wide margin
of bare floor on four sides. The effect
Is not altogether pretty, and the aver
age ruralist when he sees them will
wonder why they wers not made large
enough to cover the floor. The ex-
posed flooring 10 oiled and polished,
and it is as bright as q kitchen floor In
an English manor house.
The witness boxes, dais and other fix
lures are being made ready as fast as
eager hands can do so, but when next
Tuesday shall dawn there will be many
things yet to do.
The private chambers Of the judges
are cosy and inviting. The Libraries
will be supplied with modern contri-
vances TO facilitate the work of refer
ence and the easy finding of books.
The entire second floor is given over to
the courts and the sheriif's force.
| On the third floor thu supervisors will
have forum in the northwest corner.
where questions Of county moment
will be discussed with becoming SOL
emnity. The arrangement OF the chairs
Is IN an irregular circle extending all
around the room, the chairman and
clerk occupying raised platform in
the east, and 4 document stand will be
proudly located alongside nickel GUS
pidore In tbs middle OF the room.
When in session under this unique ar
Management the board will appear much
ike the faded PICTURES representing the
Diet OF Worms. Two committee rooms,
each one large enough for the entire
body, are reserved on the north side :.
The circuit court commissioners will
occupy n north side room on the third
tioor and another on the second.
Il Rooms for the school Examiner.
The school examiner is tucked away
under the south gable IN suite OF
three rooms, connected only by the
hallway. The county stenographer Is
relegsted TO the southeast turret.
where he will have two rooms, in
adequate 70 his necessities, which Will
be furnished with truck from the old
Offices IN the to-be-desertsc court block,
bought and PAID for by himself
The room which the poor hard work
ing reporters have prayed might be set
apart for their use, Il located at all,
will be located Immediately at the apex
| of the suuatty tower where the gentle
breexes will fan their fevered brows aud
tousled locks uncontaminated by thu
turgld odors when will surge through
the auffy halls below. Down in the
basement the directors of the poor
will sit around the old table before
which they have sat for years and
| picked their fngernalls and eaten pop
corn. But there viii be plonstroas
!. hix hustle every dsv II these places are
ft for public inspection on the day set
for the dsdioatlon, and the basiding
committee and contractors will neei 70
hump Themselves 10 keep their date.
When the new occupants are settled
| THE HERshD will publish com pIets
description Of Vie palldlng and It's fix-
! lures.
HRABANT- WOLFE