The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
BUILDING
OF TEN STORIES
BIDS TO BE ASKED FOR BUILD
ING FOR ELECTRIC SHORT
LINE COMPANY
WILL Be KNOWN AS RAILWAY EXCHANGE
Plans Provide That Passenger Trains
Will Enter the Ground Fioor-Up-
per Floors Used For Offices

per Floors Used For Offices
In the Registers What They Say"
column last week we had an interview
with Charles e. Hall in which he men,
toned that the Luce Line was con-
templating the erection of a ten-story
building on It's terminal property. and
the following from Sundays Minneap-
oils Journal shows that the company
have decided to go ahead with the
work:
The Electric Short Line Railway
Company and It's subsidiary. the ter
minal company hat owns the Mime
apolis terminals and the triangular
passenger station site at Holden and
Seventh streets and Third avenue N.
will build a steel and concrete rail
way exchange" ten-story structure on
the property at an approximate cost of
100000. H. L. Stevens & Co., Chica.
go architects, completed the plans to-
day. Bids will be asked for at once.
President Erie d. Luce of the company
said. The terminal property and the
station site. also the forty miles Of
road, except for the steel bridge LAG
feet long, which will be erected begin
ming next week near Long Lake. are
free from bonded indebtedness. 1t is
the plan, President Luce said, to place
a bond issue as soon as the forty miles
of road Is in operation.
Within t%wenty-four months, Presi-
dent Luce said, the company plans to
have its line completed to the western
terminus at Brookings, s. d., and at
the same time to have in operation
branch, lines north and south from the
main line. When the bond issue has
been placed the terminal improve
ment and passenger station plan will
be started.
I'VE will build a structure that will
be known as the railway exchange
The Electric Short Line, Dan Patch
Line, the Electric Short Line Terminal
Company and other electric lines or
allied companies will have Offices
therein. 1t is the plan to concen-
trate Offices of firms OF agencies deal
ing in railway supplies"
The ground to be covered Ia 146 feet
on Third e and 156 feet each on
Seventh and Holden streets. The
building will somewhat resemble the
"%iatiron" building in New York.
"The ground dimensions are n
larged by the order of the city vacat-
ing the sidewalks" President Luce
continued, "and this has given much
additional space. The building will
extend right up to the edge Of the
ground.
"The first three weeks of operation
of the road to a point near Wayzata,
resulted better than the engineers cal
culated in point of earnings. The steel
for the Long Lake bridge, made by
the Carnegie Steel Company, Chicago.
arrived today and has gone out to be
placed. The bridge will be up in thir-
ty days. The road will be operating
over the forty mile distance by April
1. Two additional passenger cars and
five steel trailers are on the way. We
have 10000 ties, which came into
Minneapolis in the past few weeks.
piled in our terminal.
"The bond issue has been arranged
for. 1t could be made now, but will
not be made until the 40 miles Is Oh
Grating, at which time 1t will cover all
the road and all the terminal property.
When the bond issue is made we
will start work on the passenger term
inal. 1t will probably take IL or 1S
months to put up the building the ar
chitects have planned. Passenger cars
will run into and loop through the
building and the ground floor will be
a waiting room. The floors above will
be tenanted principally by people in
the railway supply business, but the
closeness to the Central Market will
also make 1t desirable for firms or
agencies in the produce shipping bust
ness. and we have already had inquiry
for such space. Cars carrying freight
will not enter the passenger terminal
but will reach the terminals direct and
be available for the commission firms.
1T was the first intention to build
on the triangle a station for passenger
service only and make. It = low build.
ing. but the desirability 81 ths stts
for Office purposes brought about a.
largement Of the PLAN"