The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-02-24
Plans Drawn For
100000 Electric
Station and Office
Bids For Ten-Story Building at Sew
enth Street and Third Ave. N.
To Be Asked At Once
KNOWN AS RAILWAY EXCHANGE
Plans Provide That Passenger Cars
Enter Ground Floor; Upper
Floors for Offices

The Electric Short Line Railway
company and its subsidiary, the ter
minal company that owns the Min
neapolis terminals and the triangular
passenger station site at Holden and
Seventh streets and Third avenue N.
Minneapolis will build steel and con-
crete railway exchange" ten-story
structure on the property at an APP
proximate cost of 100000. H. L.
Stevens & Co., Chicago architects,
completed the, plans Saturday. 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, ex-
cept for the steel bridge LAG feet long,
which will be erected beginning next
week near Long Lake, are free from
bonded indebtedness. 1t is the plan,
President Luce said, to place bond
issue as soon as the forty miles Of
road is in operation.
Within twenty-four months, Presi-
dent Luce said, the company plans to
have it's 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 improvement
and passenger station plan will be
started.
Will Be "Flatiron Building
eve will build structure that will
be known as the railway exchange
The Electric Short line, Dan Patch
line, the Electric Short Line Termi-
nal company and other electric lines
or allied companies will have Offices
therein. 1t is the plan to concentrate
offices of firms of agencies dealing
in railway supplies"
The ground to be covered is 146
feet on Third-avenue and 1876 feet
each on Seventh and Holden streets.
The building will somewhat resemble
the "fatiron" building in New York.
"The ground dimensions are en-
larged by the order of the city vacat-
i ing the sidewalks" President Luce
continued, land 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
l. Two additional passenger cars and
five steel trailers are on the way. We
have 80 900 ties, which came into Min
neapolis in the past few weeks, piled
in our terminal.
"TLe bond issue has been arranged
for. 1t could be made now, but will
not be made until the 40 miles is OPP
Grating, at which time it will cover
all the road and all the terminal prop
erty.
Cars to Enter Building
when the bond issuc is made we
will start work on the passenger term
inal. 1t will probably take II or IS
months to put up the building the
architects have planned. Passenger
cars will run into and loop through
the building and the ground floor will
be waiting room. The floors above
will be tenanted principally by peo-
pie in the railway supply business,
but the closeness to the Central Mar
ket will also make it desirable for
firms or agencies in the produce ship
ping business, and we have already
had inquiry for such space. Cars car
rying freight will not enter the pas
senger terminal but will reach the
terminals direct and be available for
Z the commission firms.
i 1T was the first intention to build
on the triangle station for passen-
ger service only and make it low
building, but the desirability of the
site for Office purposes brought about
enlargement Of the plan. "-Minnea-
polls Journal.