The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-25
To Be READY APRIL |
NEW UNION STATION WILL BE
TURNED OVER TO co. THEN.
TRAINS WILL RUN MAY l.
Union STATION COMPANY DIREC-
TORS MEET TO-DAY.

President w. w. Mackan of the sa-
vannah Union station Company
Expects the Building to Be Turned
Over by the Contractors as Com
plete About April 1-RaiIwnys VIII
Then See That Everything Is Thor
oughIy Ready Before Beginning
the Use of the BuiIding-As Tour
lists Season viii BE Practically
over, There viii BE No Need for
Hurry-Meeting of Union Station
Directors To-day.
The Savannah Union Station will
probably be turned over to the COM
pany by the contractors about April l.
President W. w. Mackall of the Sa-
vannah Union Station Company said
to a representative of the Morning
News yesterday that he expected that
April l would be about the time that
the work will be completed and that
the building will then be formally
turned over by the contractors.
THE railways that are to use the
Union Station" said Mr. Mackall, ''are
especially desirous that everything be
completed before they begin the use
of the building. They do not desire
to begin the operation of trains into
and out of the building until every
thing is in perfect readiness. BY the
time the building is ready for use the
rush of the winter tourist business will
be over, and there will be no occasion
Tor especial hurry
About May 1 the railways will begin
the use of the building. That is the
date that was mentioned by Mr. Mack
all as approximately that upon which
trains would be running into the sta
tion.
A meeting of the Savannah Union
Station Company directors will be hello
to-day in Savannah. Vice President
Cannon of the Southern Railway and
Vice President Barr of the Seaboard
are both expected in the city to attend
the meeting. when, business connected
with the closing up of work on the
building will be considered.
Messrs. Mckenzie & Son, the con-
tractors, see an early finish for their
work. Save for the porte cochere, which
is to be at the northeast corner of the
building. 1t will be finished, they think,
within ten days. 1t is their view that
some two weeks may be required to
finish the porte cochere.
This porte cochere. or driveway for
carriages, will occupy the site of Pig
mans drug store, which has just been
demolished. With the old structure re-
moved the Union Station looks far
better than it did while the drug store
was yet standing, and the addition of
the port cochere will add much more
to its appearance.
While making excavations upon the
site. of the old drugstore the worlxmen
made rather auniques find. The ways
and wherefores as to it's being there
were more than anyone of them or
anyone whom they talked with about it
knew, but. nevertheless, they unearth-
ed the top of a vault that had been
used for burial purposes, and in IT they
found many human bones, enough, ap-
parently, to have formed half a dozen
skeletons. The vault was filled in, and
the bones were allowed to rest undis-
turbed.
Save for the work on the porte
cochere, there seems to remain only
some painting and decorative work on
the main building of the station. The
high fence that surrounded the front
of the building has been removed, and
better idea of the appearance of the
structure may now be secured by a
visitor. The shed, too, has been COM
pleted, and there remains only the sur
plus material and some debris to be
cleared away.