The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-03

that there are six floors to the building
known as the cityrhan and court house
and that two of them at least contain
vault space and office rooms of which
the members of the commission never
had any knowledge. So the next per-
son that tells them st. Paul has out
grown it's court house will hear some
thing drop.
+ The commissions decision to take a
look at the building came yesterday
when, at the regular meeting, the prop
osition to house the school board on
the fifth floor of the building came up
for discussion. Two of the rooms on
the floor in question were occupied by
the county school superintendent and
the probation officer, and where to put
them was discussed. The school board
had put its request in a letter address,
ed to the joint commission, and Coun-
ty Treasurer Metzdorf at the joint ses-
sion had declared that he must have
more space. The school board said it
needed ten rooms, two for the Superin-
tendent, one for his assistant, one for
superintendent of buildings one for
secretary, three for supervisors, one
store room, one large reception and as
sembly room, all to be fitted up in
style to meet the ideas of the board.
Treasurer Metzdorf said his principal
need was vault room; that if this were
not provided by spring many of the
county records would have to be kept
outside of the vaults.
Makes Tour of Inspection.
I CommissionerzBus suggested
| that the commission take an hours re-
cess and see what offices were empty.
The first floor visited was the base
ment, and here came the first batch of
ICIlrnricnS Two adiniYfn o. vi {1o
| offices of the board of control were To-
Gated and at least one of them was
without an occupant. The other con-
| ta1ned a lone desk and the occupant
| answered to the name of d. T. yelling
! ton, the secretary of a local Children's
Aid society. The other, formerly used
as an office, had been converted into a
lobby, and this provided a ready exit
! to the street for the members Of the
| board of control. This one, the COM
mission figured, would readily accom-
| modate the boards customers, the
needy poor, while the other could be
| turned over to the probation officer.
but the members of the board of con-
troll demurred to the arrangement.
Farther down the hall the commits
sion found another room, formerly
used by the health department and
tequipped with roomy vault. The
court house carpenter was in charge,
| and in the handsome crate that occu-
| pied one corner of the room a hard
coal fire burned merrily. In the vault
| the carpenters tools were stored, while
| other plumber occupied the shelves.
1--WE are certainly good to the car
| penter,'' commented Commissioner
| Buschmann.
What are these. rooms used for?'
asked Commissioner Pottgieser, as he
peered into a doorway, where number
of men were sitting.
That's for the janitors," answered
Custodian Cramsie. In the front room
| the ballot boxes are stored"
Light and airy, and capable of being
| converted into tive of the best offices
of the building, the commission was in
clined to think uthat the occupants
might be ousted and the room given
| over to something more useful. These
rooms had at onee time been used by
| the civil branch=of the municipal court
and the interior decorations were still
| in a fair state OF preservation. ia
This belongs to the engineering de-
apartment" Custodian CramSie told the
commission when it next invaded one
large room where's a number of men
| were lounging in chairs. 1t was the in
strument and cloak room for that de-
partment. It adjoined the fire alarm
| department, and one member suggested
that the latteris demand for space
might be readily granted by changing
the instrument room to some other par
of the building. This storeroom. like
lnearly every other one used for storage