The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-16
NO UNION WAI1ING ROOM,
New Haven Road Has Not Accodod 60 the
Grand Central station Plan.

There appears to DO a serious hitch regard
ing tho carrying out of the plans for tho now
waiting room in the Grand Central Station.
The Interested parties to tho changes are the
Harlem Railroad, the New York Central aud
Hudson River Railroad, and the New York,
New Havensand Hartford road. When the plans
wcro drawn for the additions to tho build
Ing which are now nearing completion, it was
also proposed that tho entire arrangements for
waiting rooms and baggage rooms on the first
floor should no altered. Instead Of three sepa-
ate waiting rooms. ono for each road and three
separate baggage rooms, 1t was designed that
there should DO only one waiting room and one
baggage room.
The new waiting room was to extend along
the Forty second street side of the building clear
across the train shed, where the New York,
New Haven and Hartford waiting and baggage
rooms now are and UP along the west side of the
building, taking in tho Harlem rooms and about
onc.half Of tho present waiting room Of the Now
York Central. To give more room. a consid-
cradle length of the track space ut tho Forty
second street end was to be cut off and thrown
into the waiting room, and n fine entrance from
Forty second street was to be built. In this biz
waiting room there would have been ticket
boxes, the Bureau of Information, and all the
Other features Tor the convenience of passen-
gers which are now scattered about in the sepa.
rate waiting rooms, and IL was believed that
this ARRANGEMENT would DO handler ana more
bhlltluClOEN W luC lIdNtliluk DnDllC. All INC
work of handling luggage was to be concen-
trated at the north side of the westerly part Of
the building, next to that onl of the big waiting
room.
Now 1t is understood that this whole scheme
will either have to be abandoned or else greatly
modified. This is due to the fact that the
building Is owned by the Harlem Railroad
Company, and is practically a Vanderbilt prop
ford rond uses II only as a lessee. AS the lease
of the latter road has some time to run, and the
contract contains no provisions for making the
IN nftap nIht INV la lApn tbn thu rnY-
sent OF the lessee. Although this consent has
not been formally denied, so far as could DO
learned yesterday. 1t has not yet been given,
and until 1t is given q damper is put upon the
work.
ut was understood at the time the contracts
were made" said Nj. Galloway, President of
the New York Central and Hudson River Rail-
road. to THE Sun reporter, that all the ronds
had agreed to consent to the changes. Mr..
Depew had the matter in hand, and as far as |
can learn he thought everything was settled
until the plans were sent recently to the officers
of the New York, Now Haven and Hartford
road, at New Haven, for their approval. No
word has been heard from these plans since. l
have not head that the plans were disapproved.
but 1t Is certain that we cannot complete the de-
pot as II was designed Until they are approved
Mr.. Galloway said he did not know what OBJ
lection the New York, Now Haven and Hartford
people had found to the plans, nor, in fact, that
they had found any. In case, he said, the big
waiting room scheme was abolished, the sepa-
rate waiting rooms would be maintained as
they are at present.