View is to the northwest from the south side of Front Street (Center Avenue) just east of 8th Street North. The Columbia Hotel stands on the corner across the intersection. Front Street is torn up for construction of the Courthouse line of the Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway. Two young girls and two men stand on the street in front of the Hotel. Two flag-like signs stuck into the ground on either side of 8th Street read "Gas for Cooking, for Lighting, for Heating."
Looking north on Commonwealth Avenue at about Brookside Court. The DM&IR railroad bridge is in the distance, and the Universal Portland Cement plant is at right. There is a single streetcar track.
Fargo Moorhead Electric Street Railway streetcar number 5 turns off Front Street (Center Avenue) onto 4th Street North in downtown Moorhead. The view is to the northeast of Front Street just east of 4th Street. Visible beyond the streetcar is Pederson Brothers' Mercantile Company wholesale liquor distributing business and, in the distance at right, I. C. Week's grocery store.