Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-26

the style which obtained rise and
vogue during the reign of Queen Anne.
The dimensions of the apartments are
as follows:
Waiting-room ................,.l is by % feet
Office. ................... .16 % .
Ware.r room ............ .........2 % g
Platform. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4b - 80 -
The waiting room is elegantly fin
ished in vanished North Carolina pine.
Huge mouldings extend around top
of wall and windows correspondingly
faced. The furnishings comprise seven
hardwood settees, one double; bright
metaled combinations of gas and cleo
trio light fixtures, and an electric self
winding clock. To this spacious and
beautiful room there are three entries
from the outside, one from the office.
The latter apartment is finished
much like the waiting room and sim
itarly equipped except as to settees.
The main desk is piece of furniture
comprising all needful conveniences.
Fitted into the bay window recess, the
agent. telegraph operator and train
dispatcher command full view of upper
and lower yard operations. The tick
et-office opening into the waiting-room
is spacious and pretty, and not so high
AS the old style. Electric bells, tele-
phones, telegraph instruments, and all
the modern paraphernalia of pas
senger and freight Office are here.
The wareroom is, of course, spared
a finish necessary to the comfort,
convenience and pleasure of Office
ho6itues and passengers. Nevertheless,
high wainscoting extends all the way
round.
Then there is the commodous plat
form, across which the hustling hand
lers and teamsters wheel the heavy
freights frequently from the car at once
into the wagon.
Around the main building the roof
extends outward feet, the main plat
form 6 feet. This projection affords
ample covering for passengers embark
ing or disembarking, or freight loading
or unloading.
A low, heavy passenger platform
extends around the upper end and
railroad front of the station house,
wide enough for all needful purposes.
The roof is covered with slate, the
chimneys with marble, while pointed
combs and gables make up q general
outline OF sharp but elegant features.
The skeleton of the structure is
network Of strong timbers, based upon
d wide, deep and durable foundation,
and handsomely clothed in suit which
accords with "the very age and body
of the times in architectural fashion.
The company could we'll afford, there
fore, to decorate the central gables
with the monogram, &C. & p" and
1881"
Above the station the switchboard
capacity is enlarged to double its
former capacity and increased facilities
afforded to transfers as well as to the
carriers who always want their cars
unloaded with all possible dispatch.
A few steps from the stations rear
entry across the road and by the rear
of the Consolidation coal company's
Office leads the passenger along the
new walk upward toward town. The
grade is less sharp than by the old way,
the ascent beginning sooner, and rising
more gradually. The company designs
soon as practicable to cover this walk
all the way up with a Pagoda-like roof
and illuminate it every night with gas,
or electricity, or both.
1t would not do at all to close this
review of one of the most marked i'm
provements projected and completed
Ill Frostburg for many years, if ever
before, without due allusion to the
| valuable exemplary lesson the company
has taught our people in road building.
Beginning in the rear yard OF the
station and extending TO Main street
the bottom of the old road, after due
leveling. was coated with a thick layer
of crushed cement rock. This layer
| was next coated copiously with a
reddish decomposed rock, brought
from Keyser, W. Va, a surfacing
which grows harder and smoother as
it is used. There is already, there
fore, steady, even pull from the plat
form to Main street, and teamsters af-
firm that much larger loads are now
brought up with far less strain than
ever before. In short time the road
bed will be as solid as adamant.
That the company is mainly entitled
to the credit of this series of radical
| improvements there is no doubt. At
| the same time it ought to be stated
| that l.. M. Hamilton, superintendent,
| has given almost underwriting study
| and personal attention to the work.
| It was he who first felt the need of i'm
| provement and who impressed most
forcibly his convictions and plans up
on the company. His work is almost
accomplished, and it will stand to his
credit for many years to come.