The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-07-30
Broad Street Station.


The plans contemplate train shed
sos feet s, inches long; 304 feet wide,
and lat feet 6 inches high a. the topmost
point The main building will contain
the general offices of 1.-THE company, aud
will be constructed in about the same
general sty of architecture (modern
Gothic) as the present building, with
large tower at the corner of Broad and
Markets streets. Tho new main build.
Ing will be ten stories high.
There are nearly 10000 passengers
daily in and out of Broad Street Station
at the present time, and to provide for
the large yearly increase in both through
and suburban travel will require the
most complete utilization OF all the space
between Market and Filbert streets.
The work on all these improvements
will be pushed as vigorously as possible,
and it is confidently expected that the
last stroke of work on the entire affair
will have been done before travel for the
Worlds Fair sets in, Ill order to enable
the company to handle the increased
travel with little or no Inconvenience.
Tho outside dimensions of the build.
ings, when all is completed. will be BOG
feet on Broad street by 2l2 feet Oh Mar
ket street, extending so feet beyond
Fifteenth street. The total height will
be 200 feet. This is the highest point of
the buildings and does not include the
height of the tower, which il the part OF
the plan not yet fully determined, but it
is said that this will be a fine crown TO
the splendid buildings below.
TEN STORIES HIGH.
The new buildings will be 10 stories
high, eight stories above the track level
which will be devoted to office purposes.
Each of the eight floors above the second
will contain from 33 to 40 rooms, more
than 200 rooms in ALL and they will have
every advantage of light and ventila-
ton.
The Pennsylvania officials. it is believ
ed, dc. not intend by any means to aban-
don their Fourth street offices, but the
growing demands of their increasing
business render the present Fourth street
offices somewhat cramped, and there are
offices connected with the Pennsylvania
system which can be concentrated under
the new buildings that will greatly
A.. 6 A,,ot
AN IMPOSING ENTRANCE HALL.
The whole front of the building on
Broad street, from Market to Filbert,
will be taken up by the entrance hall.
The main entrance will be a splendid
affair, and will be at the intersection of
Broad and Market streets, at the south
eastern corner of the building. The
entrance hall will be 70 feet deep, and
will be f1anked on the right and left by
two magnificent stsirways leading to the
second or main floor. On either side of
these stairways will be the passenger
elevators, which will be luxurious IN
their appointments and capable of hold
ing about fifty passengers each.
- The tickle. Office will be on the Broad
street side opposite the entrance hall,
and will also be modelled upon the most
liberal plans. The dimensions will be
rs by 80 feet. 1t will be hard to improve
on the facilities offorded by the present
ticket office in Broad Street Station but
it is hoped that the increased size of the
new one will admit of some improve.
ment.
SPLENDID CARRIAGE FACILITIES.
The entrance way for arriving CARL
ages will be on Broad, near Fi!bert street
and will be an imposing arch, or, rather,
two of them. 1t is safe to say that at no
railroad station in the country has there
ever been provided the facilities for
departing carriages, and for the hanson
cabs and carriages of the road, that will
be afforded by the space which leads off
from Fifteenth street. This will be in
dimensions 1873 by so feet, and will be
most convenient of access from all points
in the depot.
On Filbert street, near Fifteenth street
will be located the baggage rooms a. by
6S feet, and the heavy elevators for lift
the baggage. There will be two entrances
to the Office buildings-a nam entrance
on Market street, near Fifteenth, and
&ha othar ,t E;lhart apd Fittaapth atreets
The main entrance to offices will lead to
wide stone staircase ascending to the
topmost story. and there will also be
three elevators to accommodate the
officials aud clerks, as we'll as elevators
and big staircase at the entrance,
Fifteenth and Filbert streets.
In addition to the lain stairways oppo-
site the centre of the entrance hall on
Broad street there will be entering stair
ways at Fifteenth and Market and
Fifteenth and Filbert streets. Beyond
Fifteenth street, on Market, there will
be huge lifts for freight and baggage.
MAMMOTH TRAIN SHED.
The train shed will surpass anything
of its character in this country, if not in
the world. In fact there is no depot in
the old world that will be the equal of
this new station or the station of the
Reading Terminal at Twelfth and Market
streets.
Tne total length of the entire building
train shed and all will be $40 feet 81
inches. The immense proportion of this
length will be seen when it is stated that
the total length of the Reading Terminal
train shed and head house from the Mar
ket street front northwar is 512 feet,
and that is all tho way from Market to
Arch street, Que of the longest squares
in the city. The "Pennsy's" total length
of train shed and building is nearly 800
feet greater than the Rsading's- be
exact, s9S feet II inches.
A MAGNIFICENT SPAN.
The span of the shed will be one mag
nificsnt stretch OF 304 feet, overlapping
the Reading Terminal span 50 feet and
nearly so feet wider than the "Pennsy's"
own shed in the Jersey City Depot. The
highest point from the track level to the
top of the shed will be l474 feet and the
lowest 119 feet 6 inches. The materials
will be iron aud glass, and the methods
of construction will be the same as those |
used on the great arch of the Reading
Terminal.
The track level will be, as it is now,
and % feet above street level. Sixteen |
tracks will be under the shed, width of |