The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-23
OPTION IS ASSIGNED
City's Rights on Douglas and
Wichita Given Over
10 MISSOURI PACIFIC
Company Agrees to Build a
$4,000 Depot.
MISSOURI PACIFIC

Last night the council passed resolu-
ton assigning its option on the lots at
the northwest corner of Wichita street
and Douglas avenue to the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad company ror a passenger
depot. The company has already secured
options on the property it needs for the
building, and the preliminary movements
tor the construction Of 1900 depot are
completed. General Manager Doddridge,
Attorney J. H. Richards of Fort Scott,
Superintendent Webb Colonel E.. E.
Bleckley, Engineer Phillips Superintend-
ent Of Bridges and Construction Fisher
and other Missouri Pacific officials, were
at the council meeting. The conditions of
the resolution assigning the city's option
on the lots are that the Missouri Pa
cifc secure the property on the west side
Of Wichita street from Douglas avenue
10 the alley north and puc up by Septem-
Der lst depot to cost not less than 10000.
The west half of Wichita street will be
vacated by the city, and double track
run down in front of the depot property
These tracks will be fenced in for a
distance of 302 feet north, or to the alley
In fact, the depot and tracks will be
fenced all around TO guard against acct
dents. Baggage wagons will drive in
from Douglas avenue through a gate to
the platform. There will be another gate
10 the passenger platform so that the
danger Of accident will be minimized On
the east half of the street a commercial
or freight track will run down next to
the sidewalk, leaving a street space of
thirty-two feet for driving back and forth
with teams and wagons
The new depot Mr. Doddridge says,
will be a modern structure Quilt with an
idea Of accommodating the traffic here
for ten or fifteen years 10 come. 1t will
DE OF white stone or brick two stories
nigh, with offices for the superintendent,
passenger and freight agents, train dis
'patchers, etc. A large waiting room
forty or fifty feet square will occupy the
central portion of the first floor, and off
from this viii be the baggage rooms, etc,
for e0ery convenience. There will be a
basement and apparatus placed for heat
ing the building with steam furnishing
hot and cold water. The waiting room is
to be large, finely furnished, airy for
summer and comfortably warm for win
ter
General Manager Doddridge said that
plans would have TO be drawn, estimates
made and some other matters arranged
that would require about thirty days
time, after which material would be put
on the ground and the work OF construc-
ton commenced.
Easily within thirty or forty days the |
building will be going up he said. |
Wen lose no time. It will take some |
time to draw up plans, unless we should |
30 to work and copy some old plans and |
we never do that We build our depots |
TO accommodate local conditions and for |
that reason we never put up two build |
ings alike"
The resolutions assigning the citys ap-
ton was passed unanimously, as it would |
have been had the matter been left to |
popular vote Of the city, for all Wichita |
wants such a building as the Missouri /
Pacific promises on West Douglas ave- |
nue.