The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-03-29
The NEW DEPOT
PROPOSITION.
Full Synopsis of the Rail
roads Proposal.
BETWEEN HIGH AND GARDEN
Is the Proposed Site, with High and
Garden Streets to be Permanently
Closed at Railroad Crossings to
all Travel.

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Co.. through its President, Mr.. NJ. Fl
Smith, has submitted to the Mayor and
Aldermen of Columbia, through the
business mems committee, proposal
for the construction of new passenger
station at Columbia, of which the fol-
lowing is a synopsis of the main points
to be considered:
The Railroad agrees upon it's part to
build, between High and South Main
streets, a passenger station, with tracks,
sheds, platforms, etc which in extent
and arrangement shall provide ample
accommodations for the passenger bust
ness at this station for many years to
come.
The building proper will be about $40
feet long, and located about midway be-
tween High and Garden streets. The
car sheds will be longer, by perhaps a
hundred feet, than the building itself,
and the platform will be longer still, ex
tending from near High to near South
Main. The building will be two stories,
with offices in the second story; first
floor will have a ladies waiting room
about 80 by 80, we'll ventilated and fur
nished, and with toilet rooms connect
ing. A passage way leads from this to
the gentleman's waiting room, which
will also have retiring room, and be
tween this and the colored waiting
room there is a vestibule; adjoining this
room is the baggage room. The bag
gage room will be near High street.
The ladies waiting room will be near
Garden street; the gentleman 8 waiting
room near the middle of the building
The building will be of pressed brick
with stone trimmings I'VE are told,
though the proposal does notsay so) and
will be the haudsomest station south OF
Nashville and north of New Orleans.
The Railroad Company agrees, pro-
vided the City will condemn the land and
pay for it, to grade, prepare and other
wise improve, new street 60 feet wide
to be located Immediately north of the
proposed passenger station, running
from High to South Main. They
further propose, provided the city will
condemn and pay for it, to extend
grade, prepare and otherwise improve,
Twelfth street from its present eastern
terminus to South Main street to q
point near the present railroad crossing
The said Railroad Company further
propose to construct an underpass of tbs
railroad tracks at South Main street
talias tunnel) with roadway clear
ance of twelve feet 1--WE presume thai
means twelve feet high; wagon way
of thirty feet, and side walks eight feet
wide on each side: and to so adjust the
grade of the street as not to exceed pei
cent.
In consideration of the Railroad doing
the aforesaid things, they ask of the
Corporation, first, to permanently clost
High street at the present railroad
crossing THAT is, to allow the said Com
pany to fence their property at thi
point if they so desire-and we under
etand they willard allow no passing
there at all, either in vehicles or OF
FOOT And that the Corporation viii
also permanently close and vacate Gar
den where the Railroad now crosses.
The said Railroad Company propose:
to build the said new streets, and ap
proaches, and underpass way, but tn
city is forever hereafter to keep them il
. repair; and the city is also required t.
t "take all the necessary steps to provide
at the earliest practicable time a sewe
to supply adequate sanitary drainage
for the proposed passenger station"
And mark t!is) that it, (the city
twill pay and satisfy all just and lega
claims for damages to property &C
casioned by, in, or on account of, tn,
construction Of the proposed new street
or by, in, or on account of, the proposed
extension of Twelfth street; and by. IN
or on account of the construction of tn,
underpass at South Main street. an(
: will hold the Railroad Company harm
less in every respect on account of an,
!. such claim for damages occasioned b,
said work, or any part of it," (Selah!
(All of the above parentheses are ours.
2 The Railroad Company proposes t.
: begin said work just as soon as the Cit,
shall enter into a contract with them 70
+ the same, and to carry forward and com
= plete the same as rapidly as may b.
consistent with economical and pruden
. management.
The proposal (of which the foregoing
D is a fair and full synopsis of all the ma
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