The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-08
A WONDERFUL STATION,
NEW GRAND CENTRAL TERMI-
 NUS
To be an UnrIvaIsd Structure in Size
 and Beauty.

anu BeAuEys
 New York, June 5.-According to the members of the board of estimate and apportionment, who were taken into the confidence of the officers of the New York Central and Hudson River Rail- road company yesterday afternoon, and allowed to see the preliminary sketches for the proposed new Grand Central station which is to replace the present building, it is to be the greatest and most beautiful railroad terminal sta- tion in the world-a building which will be one of the show places of the city, and which for the beauty of it's archi- tectural features and for the accom- modations for it's patrons will stand un- rivaled among the great buildings of the American and continental cities.
 As the plans were spread before the committee and were explained by MT. Wilgus, the magnitude of the changes ter contemplating them for time, turned to MT. Newman and said that he was impressed greatly.
 Controller Grout said that the plans showed that the changes contemplated by the company were far greater than those already hinted at in the newspa- pers, and Nelson P. Lewis, the chief engineer to the board, said that he was surprised at the magnanimous spirit with which the company had met every suggestion of the members of the board.
 One of the most important features of the new building, which will be twenty stories or more in height, will be the removal of all the offices, wait ing rooms, lunch, retiring and baggage rooms from the ground floor. These rooms are to be located on the second floor and the entire ground floor is to be occupied with tracks for the company s through north and westward traffic. These tracks are to be four feet below the street level.
 The second floor is to be connected at the north end, at grade with the Forty second street viaduct and the new via duct which is to come down Park ave- nue over the company's yards About the center court, on this floor, there is to be a driveway, one hundred feet in width, for the use of carriages and ex- press wagons. This floor is to be con- 1lected also with Park ahenue on the south of the, station by the, construc- ton of another viaduct across Forty second street, connecting the front of the building with Park avenue at For ty-first street.
 The grade of Park avenue at Forty first street is practically on a level with the second story of the station and it is proposed to build over the stone work serving as a retaining wall at the entrance to the old trolley tunnel an or namental driveway, so that carriages may enter the station without crossing Forty-second street at grade. This will relieve, to large extent, the over crowded condition in Forty-second strond street about the station.
 The main entrance to the station, however, is to be in Madison avenue, between Forty-third and Forty-fourth streets, and here another driveway, leading to the court in the center of the building, is to be constructed, so that the building will have three broad car- riage entrances, one from the south, another from the west and a third from the north. leading directly to the wait ing rooms.