The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-03
CITY NEWS.
FINE, NEW OFFICES
OF I. c. R. I. co.
BUILDING AT ELEVENTH AND
HENNEPIN NOW OCCUPIED.
1t Is Admirably Adapted to Company's
Uses and VIII Be One of the Show
Places of the Overwhelmingly
Room Fitted with Visitors Gallery.

Room F1tted with t1S1tOrS' Gallery.
The Twin City Rapid Transit COM
pany has occupied the newly COM
pleted gray brick building at Eleventh
street and Hennepin avenue as gem
eral headquarters. The main offices
at Thirty-first and Blaisdell have been
transferred and other offices will
come from the Third avenue N sta
ton. Here also will be done the dis
tributing thru transformers OF some OF
the Juice" for operating the cars
With the installation of an elevator
this will be one of the most complete
office buildings in town. From the
lighting, ventilating and heating
standpoints it is almost perfect, and
1t is ffreprOof. .
AS a show place the building will
be interesting to visitors who may view
the transformer-room from a gallery
on the second floor. This room is
equipped with switchboardS and cleo
trical machinery. 1t occupies half of
the building below the third floor. 1t
is foored with vitrious tile, vain
scotted with enamel brick and walled
with Columbus buff. The ceiling Is of
pane1ed cement. In the basement are
the boiler-room and the storage bat
teries. The corridors as we'll as the
rooms have high ceilings. The hall
| wainscoting Is Of blue vein marble and
the tinting, as we'll as that Of every
| room is light green, restful to the eyes.
Lighting and Ventilating.
The building is lighted by immense
| plate glass windows, and at night by
diffused electric light from arc lamps,
which counterfeits daylight and is an
excellent aid to good drafting work.
| Wall lights are used also. The audi
tors room will show the attention
| paid to lighting. 1t has five ceiling
lights Of over 1000 candle power each
and fifteen border lights Of fifty candle
power each. The ventilating is done
by an immense electric fan on the top
floor. In cold weather the draft
passes over a coil Of steam pipes, An
intercommunicating telephone system
board is ready. This will permit con-
versation between offices without in
| terruption.
At the right of the Eleventh street
entrance is the office Of the roadmas-
ter and timekeeper. Here employees
joining is the office of the assistant
= treasurer and paymaster, e.. A. Cros-
by, and Of the cashier, j. w. Birdwell.
1.-THE visitor Is greeted with sight of
tremendous piles Of transfers, appar-
emily from a weeks business, but more
collections. In this room the trans
fers are sorted according to conductors,
and finally the total receipts and the
conductors sheets here meet again.
The nickels pass this office on their
way to the bank.
| Where Lost Umbrellas Co., =
i AT the left Is the office Of the SUI
perintendent, G. Briggar; of the as
= sistant Superintendent, M. Mousseau,
and of the inspectors. Here is also
the employment application-room and
that Of the operating clerks. Lost
articles will be cleared on this floor
as soon as the department is brought
from the Third avenue station.
The second floor contains the offices
of the general auditor, E. s. Pattee, OF
, the rOadmaster and engineer, George
L. Wilson, and his drafting-room
L the headquarters Of the chief en-.
gineer and the master mechanic, also
the visitors gallery.
W. J. Held, the general manager
and G. G. Goodrich, the vice president
have fine quarters on the Hennepir
end Of the third floor. Adjoining i
g. directors room. E. H. Schofield
the electrical engineer, has an Office
and drafting-room on this floor, alst
T. j. Noonan, general purchasing
p agent, and Charles e. Ferrin, super1n
! tendent Of buildings, who designed tn
! office building and that at Colleg
e avenue and Wabasha street in ST
n Paul, also the steam plant at the low
er dam. Mr.. Ferrin was the superin
y tendent of construction of the city hal
e and courthouse. The general CLAIM
: agent, William o. Stout, has office
y on this floor also.
70 Some Novel Features.
- Two of the unique features are tn
rs time sheet filing case and the fireproo
| n
-, office. .-..
III Shopmen are numbered. Thei
" daily time sheets are turned In an
4 placed in a. compartment which ha
u, the same number. At the end Of tn
a. month these sheets are added on
=" mans time Is ready.
a. The filing-room is the acme Of tn
n company's perfect accounting system
- containing several Of Mr.. Pattee
d. ceiling. The room will be in chare
&c of an expert filer, who alone he
OF entrance to the place. Every docl
lie ment to be preserved eventually fine
80 a home here. In fact the agent Of tt
~ system says that this will be the sho
IS, filing-room of the northwest.
"a A unique system is that of M
VI Pattees for bond and coupon film
7n When bonds are paid they. find a fin
re- resting place on numbered pag
On the opposite sheet the PAID ar
II Cancelled coupons have already bee
It's pasted.
=, From the standpoint Of sanitatic
IL and comfort, the clerks in this bull
ry ing are fortunate. Every attention
~ paid to points affecting their physic
"a condition while at work. Flat tt
A mahogany desks with only one draw
W. for each clerk compel the employe
~ to keep their work up. At Mig
IT. everything is supposed to be dispos
a Of so that there will be no papers lie
- to clutter up desks or drawers.
lis BUILDING PERMITS.