El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-28
PLANS FOR The
CITY HALL
Three Competitors Submit
Designs To the City
Council.
ALL FACE WESTWARD
The Building Will Be An Ornament To
the City and Will Have Ample
Room To Accommodate All the City
Offices The Award Will Be Made
Thursday.

Thursday.
| The adjourned meeting o. the city
council met this morning. at 10 O'Clock
| Mayor Megoffin called the council to
o der and the clerk proceeded with the
r liz AL aldermen were present ex-
cspt McDuffie.
| The frs matter to be taken uD was
that laid over from last night in re-
| gard to paying the extra men on the
sewer department pay roll. Engineer
Wimbsrly bad asked the council 10 sat
a salary for his assistant and two fore
men and one night Waterman. The
council told him to make out a written
| report and recommended the amounts
he thought su fficieut.
| The city enpioeer stated that he had
appointed ]. K. Polk as his assistant,
and he ought TO be given Sl25 per
month as he was thoroug bly, competent
and q good man for the position.
He also said that be had hired ]. a.
| Cstlin ard T. F. Miller for the two
| foremen to see that the work was being
done properly, and he ne ded a night
watchman. For the last the he sug-
gested that they be paid S75 per
month.
Itwss moved and seconded that the
recommendation of the city engineer
| be ca ried out, and the above salaries
be added to the monthly pay roll. The
motion carried.
The next business on hand wss sell
ec.i1g plans for the new city hall.
There were three competitors in the
| race, Z. Krau4e. r. &. Bal, and May
dwell 81 McClinIock. cconpanyirg
4 l the plans presented was certified
check 20 the amount OF $500 to be for
faif cd nv hn q hiiil in or
exceeded $40 coo in cost.
The first plans presented to the
council for examination were those of
Z. Krause. Mr.. Krause had a very
beautiful building which he had built
TO face up San Antonio street. with an
entrance on each side, ore on Myrtle
street and the other on san Antonio.
The front part of the building is
square and at the back connects with
an elliptical part which runs crosswise
| from Que street to the other.
The lower floor of the building has
room for two small offices and four
| very large ones. The secoad floor has
| in the ellip:icHl portion the city couu-
ell cham Der which was the best arran9
ed OF any of the plans submitted. This
council ch Der caught the eye of all
| the aldermen, and they noticed that
Mr.. Krause had counted on ten alder
men and then they began to joke one
auoih her as TO whose ward would have
to be cut up. In the front of the build
ing there are four more offices, and
then thare is stairway running TO
third flor, which contains nothir g but
| the balcony Of the council chamber.
Mr.. Krsuse said that the Style was
Ornamental renaissance. He had
quite large water-colored per-
-pective, which showed his building
off and caught the eyes OF the council
men.
| The next set of plans shown was that
of Messrs Maydwell aud McClintock
ITheir plan is on the style of the
modern buildings which are being put
up in the east, and is a com nation OF
Rsmauesque md classic. This com
| binstlOn together is termed modern.
The reason they took this Style for
the city bali was that the architects in
the east are putting up all the large
buildings on this plan aud they con-
tend that building of the com bination
tyne will always b. 10 style,
| The plan which they submitted is af-
ter the style OF the new city hall of
New York City, except that it has TO
wings However they have so placed
their building that il can be enlarged
without marring it.
| The building has large dome Bnd
| rotupde to it and this will always make
q complete ventilation aud keep toe
building cool. On the lower floor
there are eight offices. On the second
there are four more office rooms and
the council chamber. Their arrange
ment for the council CHI II Der is not 80
good & Mr., Krause's but the room is
larger than the county court room
| which they are using at present.
Their building, like Mr.. Krause's,
will face west. There are no side en-
frances TO their building, only the two
tho front and back The sides of
the ouilding are alike and very similar
to the front.
The next plans shown we're those of
Mr.. Ball slid that he had laid aside
all extras for beauty aud had built a
good substantial building. The inside
arrangement was very good but on the
whole the cOuocil seemed TO be dieap-
pointed with bis plans. One was heard
10 remark, That thing looks to me
like country school house"
| Mr.. Ball had arranged his building
to face west rs did the others. HE
building was longer than any OF the
others and had q tower. He told the
council that he could erect the bui'd-
ing inside of the sum allowed. His
plans for the ground floor gave quite a
number of Offices and on the second
bis arrangement of the council cham
Der wss better than that of Msydwell
and McClintock. but on the whole his
plans were not as well received as the
| others.
! - Aldermsn Badger moved that the
plans aud specifications be submitted
to the building committee and that
they report on Thursday night at the
reg ular meeting OF the cou neil. Car
ried.
Then the council adjourned