The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-26
s.. F. g. WIS NEW DEPOT.
The Big Structure to Be Finished Next
Week

The rain yesterday afternoon interrupted
the work on the new passenger depot OF the
Savannah, Florida and Western and
Charleston and Savannah railways at West
Broad and Liberty streets, as it did with
the force employed outside in grading and
laying the sewer pipes which are to drain
the yard and carry off the storm water
from the mammoth building The building
would have been completed earlier had it
not been for the heavy rains in September,
which delayed the work considerably
| About forty carpenters, timers and paint
ers are now employed on the building.
Mr.. M. c. Murphy, who is experimenting
the work for the contractor, Mr.. j. D..
Smith, said to a MORNING NEWS reporter
| yesterday that if the weather Is favorable
| the depot will be completed by tomorrow
week, all but the inside painting, which
| will take two or three weeks longer
The building is very ornamental in de
sign, the roof being of corrugated iron and
the heavy cornice of galvanized iron. TIE
ends and sides have ornamental panels OF
corrugated iron. The frame work is solid
and heavy, and is held in place by iron rods
crossing the building. the columns being
fitted into iron pillars in beds of concrete.
The roof, sides and end are of lighter ma
teral, yet, being metallic, they are superior
to heavy lumber, and are highly ornamen-
tai. The building is 300 feet long by 164
feet wide, with central aisle and two side
aisles, and will accommodate six tracks.
The main aisle is 60 feet high from the track
to the rafters, and the side aisleS 26 feet
high, fully ample to permit the larges Pull
man cars TO enter with plenty of room to
spare. The main aisle will have two
tracks, the side aisles one each,
and there will be one track under the pro-
lection of the roof on the east side of the
building, while under that on the west side
a platform is to be constructed. An i'm
posing arch spans the central aisle at each
end of the building. The roof Inside of the
building is being painted tiuge OF green.
The building will be well lighted. The
train yard is being graded and underlaid
with a 24-inch sewer pipe to drain into the
Bilbo canal, and S-mch drain pipes will
carry off the water from the roof TO the
main sewer. The tracks are graded up to
the building now, and theties ready to lay.
A track already runs through the western
aisle.
The brick base wall has been laid from
the freight DEPOT of the Savannah, Florida
and Western depot to the corner of East
Broad and Liberty streets, and will be ex-
tended south on East Broad street beyond
the passenger depot, part of the excavation
having already been completed On this
wall a handsome iron fence will be placed.
Mr.. w. Il. Chapnn mas the contract Tor
laying the masonry for the fence.
Property on East Broad street opposite
the new depot is rapidly approaching in
value, not only because the depot will be a
handsome structure, but because it will
make the property opposite valuable for
| shopkeepers The vacant lot between the
northern end of the new depot and Liberty
street has been reserved to erect q brick
building for offices for the Plant system,
with ticket Office and waiting rooms on the
| first floor, and offices for some of the de-
| partments of the two lines of road using the
big depot.
The depot will be ready by the time the
| tide of northern travel begins to set in for
the south. 1t is most advantageously To-
Gated, as two lines Of street railway pass it
the Belt line and the Liberty street line
Liberty street will soon be paved with as
phalt, and the surroundings will be such as
to make that quarter one of the most at
tractive in the city.