Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-18
a NEW DEPOT.

mason City Globe Gazette.l
The plans for the new Northwestern
passenger depot shows that it will be
fine structure. 1t will be. a two-story
pressed brick structure extending
nearly the whole distance between
+ Seventh and Eighth streets. The wait
Ing room and ticket Office proper are
about 100 feet and the baggage rooms
and express offices will still be apart
+ from. that. 1t will be provided with a
good dining or lunchroom and the Sec
Ond floor will be given to the general
Offices OF the superintendent and his
assistants, division freight agent. train
master, road master. conductors
room and the other offices that go to
make up a first class division point.
The depot will be built by contract
date. It will be a much larger and
Z finer depot than the one at MARSHALL
town. Work Will be begun on the
freight yards tomorrow. The freight
depot will be go feet long facing on
Drummond street and thirty-eight or
forty feet on Main street. Whether 1t
shall be partially Two stories Will de-
pend upon the decision as to whether
the agents' offices will be on the first
floor or second floor The passenger
depot VIII cost about $40, 600.
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THE STATES OFFICIAL PATRON
AGE.
IDes Moines Register.1
A few of the state papers are having
something to say in regard to the state
official advertising since the legislature
i adjourned, but they We're silent. or ops
posed to letting the official advertising
TO the lowest bidders when the Register
stated to the legislature. while in ses-
sion. that 1t had no objection to a
change In the law that would place
everything the state buys with the
lowest bidders. For instance the At
lantic Telegraph says;
LATE Young Is taking his turn in CALI
Ing attention to the amount of state
patronage the other fellow is getting.
The Register and Leader have been say
ing q good deal about state printing and
s binding. The two morning papers are
now running great deal OF state ads
vertising and are not saying anything
about cutting the legal price.
The editor OF the Telegraph probably
knows that the laws the state pays fol
publishing are published at half the
4 legal advertising rate. It is possible
that The Register will receive nearly
$500 for publishing the state laws en-
acted by the recent legislature, which
Will not pay the expense of printing the
extra pages Of some of the Issues con-
tanning the laws. When the laws have
all been published. The Register Will
publish q statement, certified by the
secretary OF state, showing exactly how
much 1t has received for the publication
OF the state laws. The people of the
state are interested in the matter, and
we want them to see that the state car
obtain its printing and binding fol-
about half the present prices, just as tn,
state pays Just half the legal advertising
rate for the publication OF the laws.
II should also be said that the Register
I has never asked q member OF the legis-
latnre to draft bill in such manner
that the bill would be published In the
Register when 1t became a iaw. Wher
the next legislature meets there viii
again be opportunity Ito let the stat.
printing, binding and legal advertising
to the lowest responsible bidders, am
the Register will be in favor OF SO doing
Just as 1t was while the recent lesisla.
tura was In session.