The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-06-05
GREAT Rail way SCHEME.
Superb Station Planned by the
New York Central.
THE TERMINAL FOB MANY LINES


and Construct Vast New Building
Thirty Stories High-Hotel of Great
Size and q Convention Hall Two OF
Its Chief Features.
At meeting held in the offices of
the New York Central the other morn
ing proposition which is expected al
most to match that of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad was practically clinched,
says Holland, the New York CORE
spondent of the Philadelphia Press.
If the plans are carried out there
will stand some two years hence
upon the present site of the Grand
Central station and upon several ad-
jacent lots the greatest Of structures
yet built in New York city. 1t will
have larger floor area than the
Broad Exchange Office building, now
the largest structure under one roof
in New York and probably in the
United States. Furthermore this new
building is to be not only broad of
sky than anything yet built in New
York excepting the piers of the sus-
pension bridges and the chimneys Of
the power houses that are now capable
of converting coal into electric energy
equivalent to 10000 horse power, for
it is contemplated to carry this new
building SO high that the number of
stories will he twenty eight, or if min
arets and superStructure above the
main roof be Included by as much as
thirty stories. The colors of the Syndi-
cate building, of the Tract Society
building and the new Wall street Ex-
change building which Mr.. Morse has
erected must be lowered when this
new station is completed. and if the
hotel which vii! represent Tic mil
lions gained by some of those who sold
their holdings in steel properties to
the United States Steel trust. which is
to stand directly opposite the Grand
Central station. Goes not alter its plans
the proud Lag which its owners ex-
pect to raise FROM it's lofty tower will
be Inundated by successful rivalry
across the street.
This new structure is to be devoted
directly and indirectly solely to the in
terests Of the railways from New Eng
land and from the north and west
whose terminals are in Manhattan.
For that reason it was thought expe-
dent that the architects be called upon
to include in their plans specificati tons
for what will be probably the largest
hotel in New York. 1t was said, and
by some who were in a position to
plated by the Pennsylvania was the
erection Of q very large hotel over their
subsurface station near the Hudson
river. If that We're part Of the orig
inal plans it was abandoned, although
the impression is general in New York
that ultimately it will be thought
worth while to surmount the subsur-
face station by building suitable for
hotel as well as for office purposes.
The New York Central management,
however, has no doubt about the profit
or the incidental advantages which the
combination OF an enormous hotel with
the office and station features of this
structure would make possible. They
are certain. however. that is must not
self by reason OF its enormity. 1t must
be peculiarly adapted to the conven-
fence Of travellers and transients, but
1t is intended to make it especially at
tractive so that. while it's luxurious fea-
lures will differ from those character
istic Of the fashionable hotels Oh Fifth
avenue, nevertheless they will be in
their own way as expensive in their
first cost and as expensive to maintain
In addition to the hotel, to large
hall suitable for political conventions
or other gatherings where the delega-
lions are to be large, this greatest of
buildings will be so thoroughly equip
ped with Office facilities as to meet any
possible requirements that can be now
foreseen for the next fifty years. The
New York Central, the Harlem and the
New Haven will each have Offices
there greater than the combined Office
space occupied by all Of these roads at
the present day. The Big Four, the
West Shore, the Lake Shore and the
Michigan Central and the other rail.
ways allied with the Vanderbilt inter
ests will also be allotted offices that
will seem palatial in size and furnish.
ings in comparison with the somewhat
commonplace accommodations these
railroads have there now.
In order to build q structure Of the
size In contemplation it is necessary tt
close one street, and speedily Wander
bilt avenue, curious misnomer for 8
street only four. blocks long, will bt
only tradition. Adjacent land to the
west stretching to Madison avenue
and to the east almost to Lexington
avenue and to the north two blocks be
yond the northerly wall Of the presen
structure will be covered by this build
ing. The Madison Square Garden, 81
far as area is concerned, could be easily
placed in this proposed structure.
saved by Engineers Quick wit.
Engineer Bowwitch Of the way trafl
from Cohasset, Mass, saved the live
ar two hnvs. aged seven and eigh