New-York tribune., 1899-06-11
TO BE A MODEL STATION
PLANS FOR RECoNsTRUCTING THE
GRAND CENTRAL

THE WORK TO BEGIN AFTER July 4-THE UNION
IDEA TO BE WORKED OUT MORE COMPLETELY
: Immediately after July the remodeing and en-
largement Of the Grand Central Station. at Forty
second-st.. will be begun and President Galloway
! and his associates are confident that when the
plans of the architect. Samuel Huckel tr., OF NO
. l22 Park-ave.. are carried out. the new sta,io"
will be a model OF convenience When complete
the station will be a union station IN the fun sense
Of the word. with union waiting room ana To-
tunda. and union ticket offices, baggage rooms
: restaurants. etc. There will also be concourse
appros ching all the tracks. and union hahso'n
! and automobile stand. The architects plans pro
vide for temporary waiting rooms ticket of1ces
etc. and they supposed to be so complete 'na,
the business Of the road VIII not be interfereu
with while the reconstruction goes on.
When the work is finished the traveller VIII De
able TO walk directly into the Grand Union 70,
board train on any OF the divisions OF the New
. York Central system Mt one point. without INA INA
/ The grand rotunda which IS designed 10 be al.
rectly at the rear OF the head house. or present
c1ds the o6r Of fP9 the present
waiting room is to be clear LISP space the ~ tge ends and
sides OF this room to be divided into archeu arc @
J openings. An ornate freze and cornice vii be
panelled to receive the names OF thirty-two Vi 'e
/ principal cities along the lines
TWO TICKET OFFICES.
J The ticket offices are on the Forty -second-s'
side They will he two in number and have h1teen
windows each. one-half being for the use OF the
New-York Central road and the New-fork anu
Harlem Railroad. and the remainder for the new
/ York. New-Haven and Hartford Railroad Al
I the east end OF the room will be the maroie
staircase under the centre arch OF which Is the
approach to the Forty-second-st shuttle track OF
the Third-ave elevated railroad At this end VIII
/ also be a spacious package room, a union news
stand and smoking room and the lavatores
The west end Of the rotunda will be approached
through a vestibule 5 feet wide, opening on 10
Wander rbt-ave. At this point also are to be- be the
telegraph and telephone offices Here also VIII " "
} the wOmen's waiting room retiring room, tea room
flower stand and palm room. The bureau oI IN
& be n tie the centre a OF k the o Se finished
entirely in Italian marble Of three kinds Inc e nase
I Of Francis Critti marble. and the larger panels OF
wainscot entirely of Breche violet marble w nlte ne
vestibues and floors of main waiting rooms and
rotunda
end, the centre arch and in the spandrel sur
mounting H. will be placed large clock or ornao ao
room and facing the clock will be placed large
history and development Of railroad transpoIItaE- a.
! ton Marble drinking fountains VIII be placed IN
eral style Of the ornarnentation is to be French
Renaissance and will be somewhat Of the same
TaWay y' ssten Of @ the orleans road at DUAL dor
sal. Paris now building.
/ A CONCOURSE OF 12,5O0 SQUARE FEET.
The concourse OF public waiting space. is one
! of the most important features OF the new work
| II will extend almost the full width OF the station
/ from the vestibule In Vanderbilt-ave the west
! 10 Depew Place the east. distance Of 325 feet
1t will be approached from all sides and all streets
| as well as from all tracks and platforms AND IS 70
/ have an area Of 1880 square feet. exclusive OF
/ runway.
The changes in the train shed at the rear OF the
concourse will be radical All the tracks and plat
/ forms will be newly placed and so plotted as 10
/
with their intervening platforms raised TO the IeVe
| OF the platforms, with entrances and gates to
all the trains from the north end OF the concourse
Passengers VIII walk down the platforms mere
| after. and not cross them. as they do now.
The entire length OF the building ,sn in ~ vapdeT65 md o
| where the public enters the rotunda, is 10 be de-
voted to baggage, business in an distance Of $40
There is to be subway under the ira tracks - and
Trucks will be run through Il to any point or plat
| form, when elevators will lift them to and from
| any platform or track on which any particular
CAB AND AUTOMOBILE STAND.
At the east end Of the station. in Forty-second-
! st. and separated from 1t by entrance TO the
| concourse is to be the cab stand and automobile
| stand under cover BIKES. approached from the
concourse as well as from Forty -second-st This
Is a new feature. At the rear OF this Is the ncom-
ing waiting room and incoming train waiting space,
all under roof and convenient OF access from this
point 10 the restaurant and elevated railroad, which
may be reached by means Of either elevator or four
staircases In the second story OF this part OF the
building is TO be the restaurant. with room hand
somely fitted for table service. and also large
room with marble lunch counter more than one
hundred feet long. The restaurant will be 37xeo
An emigrants' waiting room Is 10 be provided In
the basement OF the building with an approach
from Forty y-second-st, thus relieving the main
waiting room and rotunda Of this class OF pas
W. ]. wngus. chief engineer OF the Central. Is
taking the iveliest interest IN the reconstruction OF
the station The builders will be Grace < Hyde. Of
Manhattan