The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-07-08
THE PLANS ARE OUT.
ATLANTA TO HETE Il SPLENDID UN
ION PASSENGER ST1TION.
1t. VIII be zoo Feet Long and $50 Wide
A Thing of Beauty il Will no when
Notwithstanding of the Plan.
It will be a thing of beauty,

1t will be thing of beauty!
The plans for the handsome new union
passenger station Were brought to Atlanta
Wednesday by Mr.. Samuel spencer presi-
dent, and Mr.. W. II. Baldwin, third vice
president, of the Southern railway.
Mr.. Baldwin will probably remain sever
al days here looking after the preiimina-
ry arrangement fer the colossal undertake
ing.
Ever since it was first announced in The
Constitution more than a week ago that
Atlanta is to have a new union passenger
depot there has been a world OF interest
in the project and the plans. Everybody
has wanted to know the details of the great
scheme, and there is no end 10 the curios-
ity anu pride that have been stirred up
and made manifest on every side.
1t was the biggest news from the rail-
road circles OF the south that ever orig
mated in Atlanta. At that time. however.
the plans for the new station had not been
completed by the architect and the details
OF the project could not be made known.
As has already been stated in The
Constitutions former accounts, the new
depot viii he located on Mitchell street,
where the Southern railway has purchased
extensive lands for the purpose in view
The recent purchase of several blocks in
that region of the city by Mr.. II. NJ At
kinson was under the direction of the
Southern.
Acre after acre was bought until the
Southern found itself in possession of the
rarest and most advantageous properties
in that entire vicinity for the purposes
of new union passenger depot.
The movement in the initiative step was
quietly carried on, and not until The Con-
stitution printed the news of the project
with an authorized statement from Mr..
Spencer himself was anything known of
the undertaking that meant so much for
Atlanta.
Something of the Plans.
The new union passenger station as con-
templated in the plans of the Southern
railway is to be 700 feet long and $50 feet
wide.
1t will extend from the Mitchell street
crossing at the old East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia railroad, past Hunter
street more than two hundred feet.
1t is proposed that the city shall build
a vaduct over the railroad crossing along
Mitchell street to lead down TO the en-
trance of the great depot, which will front
on Mitchell with spacious and beauteous
plazas in front in opposite blocks which
have been bought by the Southern to be
beaUtified for the adOrnment of the
grounds.
The entrance TO the depot will be ex-
tremely attractive. Immediately at the
corner where the Mitchell street viaduct
Will lead to the station will be the waiting
rooms for both white and colored. and
these will be spacious and charming in
all their architectural beauty and exquisite
finish.
sixteen Trains Can Enter.
The depot will be finished in such superb
style as to furnish a beautiful two-story
front elevation. with a huge tower above
the main entrance and exit, and beyond
this frontage will lie the train shelter, which
will be in keeping with the magniflcence
and extensive pattern of the whole. This
shed VIII be sufficiently large to accommo-
date sixteen large trains on the eight
tracks that pillow their way through the
great platform, and six additional trains on
the tracks for suburban trains at the west
end of the she'd thus practically sheltering
twenty-five trains at once.
Mr.. Spencer Talks of 1t.
'.The plans show what can be done"
said Mr.. Spencer. president of the Southern
"and the next thing on the programme IS
for US 10 carry them out. OF course We
have made these plans as a proposition
something tangible upon which We could
treat with the city authorities OF Atlanta
and the other railroads that enter the city,
for. it is contemplated that this is to De
a union passenger depot.
As to the Old Depot.
There seems to be no doubt that the
other roads entering Atlanta VIII join in
the proposed new union passenger depot.
The talk that went the rounds some time
ago. thaU 1t would not be possible for the
Western and Atlantic to leave the present
depot on account Of restrictions placed
about the state in the ownership of the
land upon which the depot is built seems
to count for nothing.
1t probably arose from the fact that
there was at one tine deed on the pages
of the records which gave the state all the
property along Wall street near the depot
on condition that it should never be used
for ANYTHING other than railroad purposes.
The deed however, has been Cancelled
BY later one, which turns the property
vhereOn stands the present depot TO the
state in fee simple Enthusiastically deciding
without condition the land TO the state.
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