The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-07
BUILD BIG ADDITION
sCHEUNEMAN e EVANS STORE
WILL BE A MAMMOTH Es.
TABLISHMENT
WORK NOW UNDER WAY
BY Nov. Firm Will Have One of
the Largest and Most Mod
ern Store In Twin
Cities.

OF the vast amount Of building now
on in ST. Paul possibly no one improve
ment eXemplines more the strides that
the Sanity City has been making in the
PAST decade in respect to it's commercial
interests than the addition now being
made to the great department store of
Schuneman & Evans, Sixth and Wa
basha streets.
Already listed amcng the big retail
and wholesale marts Of the Twin Cities
this addition now in course of construc-
ton, and which the promoters hope to
have completed by Nov. l, will give to
st. Paul the largest department store
in the Northwest.
On that date the buying public of the
Northwest and constituency whose
home is the broad acres extending from
the Great Lakes to the Pacific will be
given the opportunity of viewing the
beauties of perfect palace of trade,
q convincing argument that commercial
st. Paul is enjoying its era of expan-
sion.
The lot which the company recently
purchased and on which the construc-
ton of the new addition will be com
menced in a few days has frontage OF
fifty feet. Added to the present NAM
moth structure Of five stories and a
basement Messrs. Schuneman & Evans
will be credited with a total frontage
u,
while in respect to loor space the grand
total will be swelled to over $4,000 feet.
Alphabetically the new addition will
conform in every respect to the present
structure, but In the interior the change
will be most marked, the plans having
been arranged so as to allow an almost
complete renovation of 1.-THE interior OF
the entire store.
Primarily the new addition Is for the
purpose Of adding new departments and
permitting the enlargement of those now
occupying the present store, but in al
lowing for this the installation OF feat
ures characteristic of the big Eastern
department stores has not been forgot
ten. Principal among these will be set
Of parlors and waiting rooms where the
tired shopper may rest, and where, if
sick, trained nurses and experienced
physicians will attend to their every
want. These rooms will be on the second
floor.
ARRANGEMENT OF FLOORS.
The first floor of the annex will be given
ever to the shoe and book departments,
while the basement will contain the toy
department. In giving over the first
floor of the new addition to the two
departments named expense will not be
spared in fittings and appointments, and
in this respect the firm intends that 1t
Sndll not DC equaleA III the NORTHWEST.
For the second floor a perfectly APP
pointed hair dressing parlor has been
planned In the dressing of hair cleo
trio appliances play a large part, and
the most modern will be installed
While allowing for the expansion of
It's retail business in the extension of
old departments and the addition of new,
Schuneman & Evans have not been for
getful of the wants Of their thousands OF
customers at distance, and this has
been provided for In handsome allow
ance of space for the wholesale and mail
departments.
Machines will be installed for the sew
ing Of carpets and other fittings that the
firm Installs direct in the homes of its
buyers, while In its mattress and bedding
departments an entire new set of mod
ern machinery will be placed.
Under this head also comes the shipping
and delivery departments and here the
same additions, in respect to expansion,
have been provided for Under plans now
proposed, deliveries already prompt will
be much improved.
No one firm in the Northwest, possibly,
carries a larger stock Of furniture and
house furnishing goods than this well
known firm, and in arranging for the ex-
pansion of the many departments, this
one has not been forgotten. 1t will eX-
tend over into one OF the floors Of the