The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
RUSHING WORK
ON new DEPOT
Foundations are Being Rapidly Pre-
pared for Superstructure.
LARGE FORCE ENGAGED.
Some of the Men Being Worked in
Shifts During the Hct Weather.
will Be Completed
Within j Year.
LARGE FORCE ENGAGED.

The work on the new seaboard Air Line
and Chesapeake and Ohio Depot, on Main
Street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth,
despite the necessary delay occasioned by
the intense heat Of the weather, is pro-
crossing rapidly. About this time next
year in the place OF a lot covered with
dirt-piles AMI skeletons Of old buildings
will stand the depot. a finished article,
complete and ready for use.
At the present time the visitor to this
spot finds only dirt, and many laborers
hard at work on the foundation of the
large building. The work on the founda-
lions was begun about the middle Of last
month, and now more than half the con-
crete foundation is iii place. One hundred
and thirty-five men, al told, are engaged
in the work, but during the heated period
the daily average has been between seventy
and eighty, some of the men working iii
halliday Shifts
Although the trenching is very danger
Gus, there have been no accidents.
THE CONCRETE WORK.
The concrete work will probably be fin
ished in three weeks, and then the stone
work will be commenced. A good plan
that has been pursued in the erection OF
this building is that the stone is being
cut and gotten into shape, and Will be
ready when the foundations are finished.
Mr.. a. M. INalkup is in charge of the
work, which he is pushing along as rap.
idly as possible, but all that can be said
about it just now is that part OF the foun-
dation has been laid, and that the work is
going steadily on. For some time the
workmen have been handicapped by the
walls Of an old building which had
been left standing. With the obstruc
ton removed the men expect to make
much more rapid progress. Some Of the
trenches that have been dug are twenty
two feet wide, which means an enormous
amount of bracing. Most Of the footing
has been laid, and some OF it is twelve feet
wide, being cut now, and when the other
is completed it will be completed, too. The
iron and terra Gotta are being gotten out
ALSO and will be ready for the completed
foundation.
THE DEPOT.
The depot proper will be 100 feet square.
1t will be thanked on the east side by the
Chesapeake and Ohio trestle, and on the
west by that Of the Scaboard Air Line.
To the north and the south will be the
entrances
Just back of the depot will extend the
train shed. $50 feet lonS. The laying of
the foundation for the piers has been COM
menced here and some of them have been
completed. Five tracks will run into this
shed from the river-three Of the Chesa-
peake ard Ohio, and two of the Seaboard
Air Line. In the centre Will be Tour
makeup tracks.
The freight depot, still farther back, is
already up and in use.
The work on the Chesapeake and Ohio
trestle, the companion to that of the
Seaboard Air Line, is also being pushed
forward rapidly. Nearly all the piers
have been set and the placing of the iron
work will begin in a few days. This will
be begun at the upper end coming down
towards the depot. Once started, this
work will progress rapidly.