The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-03
PRESIDENT WINTER FIRST.
Northern Pacific Office Building
Ready for Occupancy.

President E. w Winter was the first of
| the officials of the Northern Pacific to oc-
cupy quarters in the handsome new $3.50 600
general oftice building at the foot of Fourth
street, on Broadway. Mr.. Winter has been
close to the Mecca for several days. Monday
afternoon the masons succeeded in finishing
an opening from the old into the new build
ing and, yesterday afternoon, the official desk
belonging to the official head of the road
was rolled through the gap and landed in the
center of President Winters handsome pri-
as a spacious parlor. In order to gain ac-
cess to the president, however, the public
will be required to pass a number of SEN
ttnelS and attaches, until they find themselves
in the presence of Private Secretary Larry
Gemmel. This functionary will see to it that
your card reaches the chief executive of the
road, but he will not guarantee an audience
The other officers of the road will move
into the building day by day until the hand
some pile is fully occupied. Nearly all Of
the offices are now ready for occupancy The
passenger and freight departments will fol-
low this week.
The new building is one of the largest and
handsomest exclusively office buildings in the
Northwest and taken in connection with the
old building, which is in itself a large con-
Germ, the Northern Pacific will have an abund-
ance of office room. The construction of the
new building was commenced last July. after
plans prepared by Architect Cass Gilbert
The work was pushed with great rapidly, and
it required only seven months to build the i'm
menSe hve-Story affair, which is of the most
modern fire-prOof construction 1t is absolute
ly non-combustible, and the door castings
window frames and floorings are the only
wooden articles in the building except, of
course, the furniture. There are two large
passenger elevators in addition to the one
in the old annex.
The basement of the building will be used
as q place of storage a file room, record re-
pository, consultation rooms, etc The grand
entrance of brown marble Is on Broadway
| To the right Of the entrance on the first
floor will be the Offices of the general passen-
or and ticket agent c. S. Fee and his as
sistants, Messrs. Craig and Austin. The gen
eral passenger department clerks and adver-
Using men will also be quartered on this floor
! General Freight Agent s. L. Moore and his
entire staff of assistants with their clerks
, and stenographers will have the left end Of
the corridor, and VIII have attractive of
fees. General Claim Agent John Newton
will also have his offices on the first floor
On the second floor will be the quarters
of President Winter and assistants, General
Manager Kendrick and his assistant, Finley
Shepard, General Superintendent Kimberly
and Assistant Osborne, and the clerks Of
the three offices named, also the superin-
tendent Of transportation with his staff Of
| clerks and the telegraph department.
The third floor will accommodate the land
commissioner and clerks, who are now quar-
| tered up town, the land agent and clerks and
| the immigration department, with several
| other departments of lesser Importance
The auditing, accounting and dsbursng
| departments which employ a small army OF
| men will occupy the entire fourth floor and
| private offices will be reserved for Comptrol-
! Ter Gray and assistants.
| On the fifth floor, Chief Engineer McHenry
| will have full swing with his corps 81
! draughtsmen, engineers, etc, ETC. Superin-
| teadent of Motive Power Herr will also very
! likely be Quartered on the fifth floor instead
! of at the shops, as at present. The Northern
! Pacific Express company, which now has
! quarters in the Manhattan building may be
| moved into the original general office build
! ing. Several branches of the road and or
CARNATIONS bearing the Northern Paeifc's
! name, which are now scattered about the
! city, will be gathered together under the
! big roofs Of the general buildings.