The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-07-17
BY OCT. 20.
New Chamber of Commerce Open
ing Will Then Be Due.
DECORATORS SOON TO GO TO WORK
Several Very Sumptuous Suites to
Be Occupied by Large
Companies.

October 20 is the date upon which, If
everything goes right, the new Chamber
of Commerce building will be ready for
the opening. Work is progressing salts
factorily and is being pushed as fast as
possible. ss.-- ~, .sl =. .z. .,--. 5c-- f.
the chamber nor l.. r. Brooks, chairman
of the building committee, will commit
himself to the fixing of q time when men,
bers can, have possession of their new Of
fees. SO many delays have been ex-
perienced aud SO many disappointments
met with since the building was begun.
that both gentlemen hesitate about prom
especially in view Of the feeling of un-
rest in labor circles, No building enter
prise undertaken in Minneapolis ever met
with greater difficulties The very fact
of the prosperity of the country was a
handicap at the start, in that 1t made it
difficult to secure the prompt delivery OF
building material, Strikes have inter-
fered very seriously several times land
even to-day the grille work and orna-
mental iron cages for the elevators are
lying in Chicago, where they have been
for several days, held up by the freight
handlers strike. Ut is now believed,
however, that with nothing further of an
adverse nature arising, the building will
be ready Oct. 20. t.
Soon Ready for Decorators.
The building viii soon be in shape for
the decorators. The marble wainscoting
is In place to the eighth floor. All the
plastering is finished all the woodwork
in place and the floor tiling is piled. in
the corridor ready to lay as. soon as the
heavy trucking back and forth through
the building shall have ceased.
The big exchange room is apparently
in the condition it was six weeks ago,
with the ceiling entirly concealed by the
scaffoldfng, but above this, work has pro-
crossed The scaffolding will stand,
however, until Bradstreet can get his
decorators at work on the mural paintings
that are to cover the panels at the top
OF the large windows.
Handsome Suites.
The handsomest Offices anywhere in the
northwest will be the suite to be occu-
pied by the Washburn-Crosby company,
which embraces the entire second floor.
The rooms are finished in cherry and the
walls are of cream color. The ceiling is
cut uD into beautifully decorated glazed
panels, the whole making q very pleasing
ensemble. The Peavey company's suite
is the same in size. The scheme Of deco
ration is slightly different, the walls car
rying a blush tint and the woodwork be-
ing little lighter
The immense suite to be occupied by the
Van Duzen-Harrington company is about
as far advanced as the others with still
another slight change in the color scheme.
The floor to be occupied in it's entirety
by Commons & Co. is the farthest from
completion of any Of the large suites, but
work is now being directed upon this
floor, to bring it up even with the others.
Smaller Apartment
Near the exchange room the building
Is cut up into very small offices for the
accommodation Of the many who require
only small quarters, but must have quick
access to the pit. Here the work is we'll
along and many of these little Offices are
almost, complete as they stand. II.
"A feature that will be greatly appre-
ciated is the smoking-room opening off
the exchange room, but without other
means of egress, where members may sit
and gossip at their ease, without inter
ference from the outside, and yet IN the
closest touch with the pit This room is
light and airy, and looks out over South
Minneapolis. affording view Of the mill
| ing district.
Some gossip is now starting as to what
the directors will do by way of getting
| up fitting celebra ton for the opening
| OF the new chamber. Various plans have
been discussed informally, but no de-
ctsion has been reached.