The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-23

Contractor Grant and force or eighty
men are making rapid work in the re-
modelling of the old Market house. The
work at present is being confined ex-
clusively to making ready the ground
floor of the building to be occupied by the
Lennon store at Wabasha and Seventh
streets and the other stores on Seventh
and ST Peter streets.
The upper part of the building is being
trussed up with jack screws and $50 of
these will be used in supporting the struc-
ture until the iron posts are placed In
position. The iron is expected to arrive
Tuesday and the work of putting In the
first floor front on Wabasha and Seventh
streets will be commenced.
The first floor at present in the building
will be dropped to level with tho street,
a distance of about four feet, and then
covered with an oak flooring. AS soon as
the floor has been dropped and the iron
posts put in place the work of putting
in the frame work for the glass front
will be started.
The stores will. 1t is expected, be ready
for occupancy July /, and all but two
have already been leased. The entire
front from the north corner of the pres
ent building on Wabasha street to the
north corner on st. Peter street, a dis
lance of $50 feet will be composed en-
tirely of plate glass, the size Of the panes
being 14x16 feet.
The front will commence from the prop
erty line of the street which is about ten
feet in front of the present building on
Wabasha and st. Peter streets and five
feet back of the property line on Seventh
street.
As to the remodeling Of the upper part
of tie building which will be used for a
library, Mr.. Feldhauser says this will
not be started in detail until the neces-
sary funds have been subscribed. The
stores that have been leased will bring in
revenue of about $4,000, but what is
needed just at present is sufficient money
to do the actual work of reconstructing
the upper floors for the library, public
hall and reading rooms.
The brick taken from the old building
is being stacked up Oil the property to
the north of the building and will be
used in constructing the arcade which
will occupy the ground where the sheds
formerly stood.
1etween the arcade and the present
market building there will be an alley
twelve feet wide running from ST. Peter
to WabasEa streets. AS to what use the
arcade will be put is as yet undetermined
In case the Northwest Manufacturers
union does not carry out the plan of Sc
curing space in this part of the new
structure then the beard will go ahead
and MT up space for exhibits of manufac-
tured goods ard rent the same at nonii-
nal sum to individual firms.
The heating and lighting plant for the
building will be in the old building
Mr.. Feldhauser says the building when
completed will be the handsomest thing
In the city and the beauty of the stores
on the ground floor will be such that it
will make the corner one of the most at
tractiVe in the citV and have a tendency
to increase the price of rents in the i'm
mediate neighborhood.
Speaking of the matter of more funds
for reconstructing the library and public
hall, Mr. Feldhauser said DR. Foster, OF
the library board, appeared before the
Century club one evening last week and
presented the matter SO well that a COM
mittee of fifteen was appointed from the
club to collect subscriptions to help on
the work
The erection of the glass front out to
the property line will necessitate the
street railway coop being removed from
its present position at Seventh and Wa
baSha streets.