Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-12-19

/ and the offices on the second. The
main waiting room, the ladies and
gents waiting room and their toilet
f room connections and the corridors
are to be laid with Mosaic floors,
highly polished The express room
and the baggage room are to be
laid with one and three-eighth inch
hard maple floors. The lunch
counter room is to be laid with
extra selected white maple floor. TIE
express room and the baggage room
walls are to be laid on the inside
with special enameled brick, and the
only plastering that will be in these
( two rooms will be the ceiling. All
plastering will be what is known as
/ the sand finish, and the entire sur
/ face is to be decorated or frescoed
with oil colors The main ceiling
over the main waiting room is to be
paneled off with rich moulded pa iels
and to be formed with rich orna-
mental stucco work.
The entire building is to be heated
with steam throughout from heat
ing plant to be placed in the base
ment of the building. The entire
building is to be lighted with cleo
tricity. and complete system of
wires are placed from a switch board
in the basement so that the company
can furnish their own light or buy it
as they chose The wood work used
in the interior is to be all guartered
oak, aud when completed is to repre-
sent high polished surface, such as
is used on furniture, pianos, etc.
The main telegraph office is to be
fitted up with all modern improve
ments and SO arranged that the SEN
der of messages and those that are
liable to visit this Office can enter the
room without being disturbed by
others. The ticket Office, which will
be in the southeast corner of the
large waiting room, will have a fine
ornamented window with the exterior
of this ticket Office all fitted up with
the most modern improvements
known for an Office of this kind.
Taking it as a whole throughout, it
will be one of the finest depots out
side of Indianapolis in the state of
Indiana.
After leaving the main waiting
room we enter an outside waiting
room between the main building and
the train shed. This space is covered
with glass forming prismatic lights,
To give the reader an idea of the
magnitude of the lighting of this
outside waiting room, it takes
,S72 glass, twelve by twelve inches
square to light this space. This
waiting room occupies space of
3, 500 square feet. The floor of this
outside waiting room is to be laid
- l. k.C I,prI<. L.
and joints filed with asphalt. After
we enter the train shed. The train
shed is constructed entirely OF iron
and glass. Both ends of the train
and glass. This train shed is so ar
ranged that nine trains can be load
ed at the same time without inter
fearing with one another. Four
trains would be facing east and five
trains would be facing west. This
train shed is ventilated d from the top
with seventeen thirty-inch ventilat-
ors. There is "a sky light constructed
over this train shed which requires
4 ,624 square feet of glass TO cover the
same. To give the reader an idea of
this immense train shed which is
eight hundred feet long will say that
1T takes 675, o35 pounds of iron and
steel to construct the same. The
Gov ering of this train she'd is made of
galvanized iron, number twenty
gauge. 1t requires 40, 900 square feet
in addition TO the glass as above
mention ed. This train shed is to be
lighted entirely with an arc light
system requiring great num-
Der of arc lights to be used to
light the same. 1t is SO ar
ranged that baggage and express
matter will be taken to and from the
trains without interfering with the
passengers going and coming from
the same. This train shed is cen
structed entirely of trusses forming
one immense area requiring about
thirty eight trusses. There will be
no columns except those necessary
at each side, thus making the train
she'd clear and wide ops ming.
Trains can run from one end to the
other, the same as the depot con-
structed at Columbus, o.
The entire iron work throughout
is TO be painted with three colors of
white paint, thus giving
very light and attractive appearance
The sides of this train shed above a
certain point from the bottom is
filled with glass SO as 70 let in light
and shut ont as much wind rs posi-
ble. There is a complete sewer system
placed around this train she'd and
around the depot proper TO take off
all surface waters that might fall in
the vicinity, thus keeping it dry at
all times.