The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-06-14
GRIND CEN7R1L STATION.
A Union Waiting Room and Com
course, With Thirty Windows and
New COmycnfenees,

union warning hCOm anu Coli
course, with Thirty Windows an'
New COnvenfences.
Work will begin at once on the i'm
provements to New York's Grand Cen
trail station, for which three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars has been Sc
apart. When the work is completed thu
station will be conducted as union sta
! ton, with a union waiting room, unior
ticket offices, baggage rooms, restau-
rant and so on. The Sun says:
| 1.-The great waiting room will be di-
rectly back of the present New Haven
waiting ROOM absorbing part of the
| present train shed and will have clear
| space ninety feet WIDE one hundred and
| eighty feet long and tllirtysix feet high.
| All trains will be reached from this
waiting room after the manner of mod
ern great terminal stations The pres
ent tracks will be taken up and new
ones put down, so that there will be
twenty parallel tracks extending north
ward from the waiting room and an en-
larged concourse for incoming trains.
shed from the annex shed will be re-
moved, the open space east of the wall
will be rooted over and the entire width
of the station property from Vanderbilt
avenue to Depew Place will be united
into one great train she'd The waiting
rooms now running along the Wander
blt avenue side of the station will give
way to an outgoing baggage room five
hundred and forty feet long. All pas
sengets for the New York Central, the
New York and Harlem and the New
York, New Haven and Hartford roads
will go to the union waiting room. open
ing out on Forty second street.
"'The great rotunda will be entered by
vestibules and approaches on all four
sides The ends and sides Of the room
will be divided into arched openings,
over which there will be an ornate frieze
and cornice paneed to receive the names
of thirty-two of the principal cities
along the line of the roads Above this
cornce the ceiling will be laid out into
rectangular panels confirming arched
eegmental diffusing lights Of loaded
glass, over which will be the skyllghts.
The two ticket offices-one for the New
York Central and Harlem roads, the
other for the New Haven-w1ll be on the
Forty-second street side of the rotunda
Each will have fifteen windows. AT the
east end of the room will be the package
room, the newsstand and the mems
smoking room and lavatories. Here
marble staircase will lead to the Third
Avenue Elevated road The west end of
q vestibule fifty-five feet wide opening
the rotunda will be approached through
on Vanderbilt avenue Here Will be the
telegraph and telephone offices, the la
dies waiting and retiring rooms, tea
room and flower stand The informa-
ton bureau will be in a pavilion in the
center of the rodunda In designing the
the architect, Samuel Huckel |
Jr., of Philadelphia, has followed some |
what the designs adopted for the new |
station of the Orleans road at the Quai |
d'Orsay, Paris.
Between the waiting room and the |
tracks will be concourse extending |
nearly the full width of the station, a |
distance of three hundred and twenty |
five feet, thirty feet wide along the
waiting room and one hundred feet wide |
at the east end. At the east end will be
the cab and automobile stands To the |
rear of this will be the incoming wait \
ing room. In the second story of the an
mex will be a restaurant and lunch
room. An emigrants waiting room will
be provided in the basement. Under the
tracks at Forty-ffth street will be
from the baggage room, con-
aecting by lifts with the train baggage