The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-25
FINEST DEPOT IN THE WORLD.
Boston Terminal of New Haven Rail
 road Nearing Completion.

road Nearing Completion.
 The immense depot of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- road company, which will supplant the Park Square station in Boston, is now nearing completion. It will be in many respects the finest railway terminal in the world. It has several features that no other terminal contains, and is the creation of the combined minds of some of the cleverest engineers and architects of the United States.
 The track facilities are unequalled anywhere, There are two floors of tracks which will do away with switching. The second tier has twenty eight stub" tracks such as are in use in ordinary terminals, and into which trains will be switched. The tracking, freight and weighing room facilities are far superior to those of the famous Union station of St. Louis. Work was begun on the building, or rather series of buildings early in 1897, and 1t is now practically completed. They will probably be ready for use at the beginning of next year.
 THE MAIN BUILDING. That portion of the building on Summer street and Atlantic avenue has been treated as the main build- ing, with the principal facade placed at the corner of these streets. This central motive is boldly treated with a heavy base, through which are three arched entrances. This base supports a colonnade of sixteen Ionic columns, | above which is pediment surmount- | ed by a clock with an ornamental base. Upon the clock stands an enormous eagle, cut from Stony Creek granite.
 The central motive is fanked by about 300 feet of five-story building, rpa wing 4On Summer street, another | on Atlantic avenue. The bases of | these wings are of granite for two stories, the remaining three stories be- ing in neutral tint brick, with gran ite trimmings. There is a heavy mould | ed jet, upon which is a balustrade, all ' in granite The buildings are further extended by two-story structures of the same general designs as the main building for about $50 feet on Atlantic avenue, to the end of the train shed and another on Summer street and Dorchester avenue about 925 feet in length to the end of the train shed on | the Dorchester avenue side. This makes total length of building of about 2,1O0 feet and would, if placed | on Westminster street, reach from Buffers exchange to Cathedral square.
 THE WAITING ROOMS.
 The main building has on the first | +l,o in ,fy1r the main exit of Summer street main waiting room 22o feet long ana 65 feet wide, and 28 feet high. Tins waiting room is nearly finished with a mosaic floor of imported marbles and natural pink Knoxville marble, laid in figured pattern. 4e
 1 The walls are of white glazed brick | to about eight feet in height, the re- mainder being in plaster. The ceiling is in plaster, in vaulted panels of clab- | is in plaster, in vaulted panels of elab- crate design
 The entrance have polished granite 1 jambs and lintels, and the woodwork | is polished oak. This room will be ann ply lighted by day through the large windows on the Summer street side and transoms, which are above the midway roof, on the train side.
 At night it will be lighted by about 1 1.20O incandescent lights. The remain der of this floor has the ticket office, which between the main waiting room and tn midway; lavatories at the west end of the waiting room, be- tween it and the main entrance; the parcel room, which is at the other side l q oY,ti oHyn nue; the Atlantic avenue entrance, and ! part of the outward baggage room. The other floors are designed for of fees, board and committee rooms, and will be occuped by the various rail" roads entering the statrion The two story wing on Atlantic avenue will have on the first floor .the remainder second floor being for the executive of fees of the railroad and terminal com panies.
 PRIVATE DINING ROOMS.
 The two-story wing on Summer street has, on the first floor next to the Summer street exit, the restaurant next to which is the mems waiting 1 room, barber shop and lavatories.
 On the second floor are private din ing rooms, kitchen and some offices The two-story wing on Dorchester av- enue has, first, carriage concourse at the corner of Summer street with | entrance on Summer street, with entrance on Summer street and Dor chester avenue. Next to this is an exit from the suburban station, beyond which is the inward baggage room, to the end of the building. In the second cor of this building will be rooms for the railroad employees.
 Within the enclosure made by this "U" arrangement of buildings are the twenty-e eight tracks and an ample con- course, called the midway, which lies between the ends of the tracks and the head course. The track are covered by train ahed 570 feet wide by 6O2 feet long supported on four rows of posts.
 A GREAT POWER PLANT. | A great power plant will furnish heat for the building, electricity for power and light, compressed air for the operation of the switch and signal system and air brake testing and man. ufacture of ice and the manufacture and compression of gas or the Pintsch gas system of lighting cars.
 The power house, situaed on Dor chester avenue, southerly of the bag gage building, is 450 feet long by 40