Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-01
DEPOT PLANS ADOPTED
Designs Selected BY the S. A. l.
and {. & 0, Officials,
SOME CHANGES TO Be MADE
The Plans Of a Firm Of Philadelphia
Architects Adopted.
PROGRESS OF RAILROAD WORK.


The officials OF the Chesapeake and
Ohio and Scaboard Airline examined
at the Hot Springs yesterday the plans
submitted by various architects for the
union depot in this city, and unanimously
decided to adopt those Of Wilson Brothers
& CO., Of Philadelphia
The plans will be slightly modified be-
fore the contract for the erection Of the
structure is awarded The notifications
will be made just as soon as possible.
4 telegram to the Dispatch from Hot
| Sprisgs last night says:
"a meeting of the Chesapeake and Ohio
and seaboard AIRLINE officials was held
here to-day TO consider plans for the
Richmond union depot The conference
included President ingalls,. Vice-President
AxteI. and Goneral-Manager Stevens, Of
the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, ana
President williams and Vice-President
and General-Manager st. John, Of the
Seaboard AIRLINE.
"Plans had been received from leading
architects in several different cities. After
full consultation it was unanimously de-
cided to adopt the plans prepared by
Wilson Brothers & CO., Of Philadelphia,
but as there are several changes and
| notifications to be worked out, it will
be impractcable to give the plans out
| for publication until the notifications
| have been completed md the plans put
| in final shape, which will be very soon.
1t was stated by one Of the officials
that the building is one which he was
sure the city Will have occasion 70 be
proud Of. lie remarked that present in
| Gications are that this will be decidedly
the handsomest depot structure in the
Southern States"
THE PROBABLE COST.
II was stated By a Chesapeake and
Ohio man In Richmond yesterday that
the depot would cost upwards Of 10000
As has been SO often stated in the Dis
patch, the building will be erected at
he corner OK Fifteenth and Main streets.
Its dimensions have not been finally de-
cided upon. 1t will have about $50 feet
front The building Will be principally
of brick. Much stone and iron Will also
be used I'm its construction.
The notifications Of the plans will be
made as quickly as possible. ImmeGi-
atcly upon their being finished, bids viii
be invited FOR the erection Of the build
ing. and the contract awarded in a rea-
sonable time The work Of construction
will not be allowed to lag. as the Rich
mond, Petersburg and Carolina, which
Is 10 be the northern division Of the Sea-
board is under contract TO be completed
10 this city By January /, Low. 1t Is
NOT rrF
will be erected 10 be used as a station
until the union building is done.
Work on the Richmond, Petersburg and
Carolina is progressing very rapidly now,
and there is every indication that sne
road will be completed by the first OF
next year, provided. OF course, the win
ter does not set in too early. The work
or the bridge across the James at tins
city is progressing more rapidly now
than at any time since it was begun.
The work on the Chesapeake and Ohio
viaduct, or, rather, the piers therefor,
is going forward, though it would not
be proper 10 state that il is being rushed.
It is progressing steadily Several pairs
of piers in the river have been erected,
and a number Of others are under way.
Every effort is being made 10 have the
MOIh so Wen dAhduNtu ny LiAt tAlllS A-i5AA
waters and cold weather set in that it
viii be possible TO prosecute IL without
having to compel the men to work in
the water.
The Virginia ana Southwestern railway
IS being extended twenty-five miles from
Elizabeth. Tenn, 10 Mountain City, that
State. Eighteen miles Of the line are COM
pietcd. About an the grading is done
along the entire line. The road is being
built TO tap the iron-ore beds around
Mountain City. The country through
which the line IS being constructed has
some Of the finest timbered tracts in the
United states.
The Chesapeake and Ohio has just con-
tracted with the Pullman Company for
the construction of eight yestibule-cars.
Four are 10 be combination passenger
and baggag e-cars. and four are 10 be
passenger coaches. They viii be OF the
latest style in car-building. All viii be
vestibuled. They are TO be completed By
June l. 1900. They will be placed on trains
between Cincinnati and New York.
The Chesapeake and Ohio has recently
received about five hundred new freight
cars of its order for 1900, placed with the
Pullman Company
As an illustration OF the phenomenal
increase In business Of the Chesapeake
and Ohio this year, as compared with
last. IL is officially stated that the earn
ings OF the road for September ., 1899,
were 5000 in excess OF the earnings for
the same day last year.
Goneral-Manager Richard Carroll, OF
the Mobile and Ohio. who died in Gin
cinnati last week. was well known 10
many Richmond railway men. and great
~ liked. Mr.. Carroll began his railway
career as brakeman on the Atlantic and
Great Western In 1855. After a few years
he went 10 the Cincinnati and southern.
and worked himself up 10 the position Of
train-master Two years ago he was APP
pointed general manager of the Mobile