The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-17
Reconsideration Soon to Be
Accomplished.
NEW FACILITIES
20 Unite on Manhattan Island the Sys-
tens Of New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and Long Island With North
ern and Eastern Lines.
tFrom the New York Commercial Adver-

What, after all, Is even Grand Central
Station for city of over 100000 inhabi-
tants? 1t means that. with all the latent
possibilities for a tremendous development
of passenger and freight traffic coming
right into New York, one steam railroad
alone has made direct entrance and we
had one terminal which was very far be-
hind In comparison with other cities of
I the same class. Paris for instance, has
I lis DUAL d'Orsay-its st. Lazare: London
It's mammoth Great Eastern. st. Pan
ctas and numerous others. while Berlin
has several large terminals, exclusive OF
the "Stadtbahn." or city railway station.
Or this continent Boston. Philadelphia
and St. Louis have all outstripped "thc
first city In the land In providing ter
minals OF large capacity and imposing
appearance.
But having been aroused by much
clamorlng from within and eager solicita-
tion from without, to a realization OF
what was possble-what was. indeed,
necessity, if the city was to maintain It's
reputation for rogressiveness-New York
is going to the limit, so to speak, In the
matter of terminals. and mammoth i'm
provements for bringing. passenger and
freight traffic into It's very center. 1t Is
doubtful II the average citizen has any
IDEA OF the magnitude OF the structures
contemplated or of the immense volume
Of traffic OF which these terminals will
be the visible proof Il short time hence.
To begin with the New York Central is
working on plans for gigantic terminal 10
replace the present Grand Central Sta
ton. To make this possible the railroad
has within the last two years expended
upon real estate a sum which may be
stated as approximating 100000 The
actual details of this vast project as they
apply to the terminal itself have not been
definitely announced. but some idea OF lis
magnitude may be gained from the state
mett made by one OF the officials Of the
road. He said: 1T Is not too much TO
cay that the face OF the city in this vicin-
ity will be transformed. While five years
Z have been given TO us to complete our
work. we have allotted to ourselves oniy
three years for the completion OF the Inn
rrovements. You may be sure that We
Will be within our own time allotment.
unless there Is some great and now un -
foreseen obstacle cast in our way. AS 70
the cost Of the improvements now con-
templated. can say nothing more d nsa
finite than that an estimate OF s-'.vcV'Vt
geems 10 be conservative
WORK TO BEGIN.
The work of demolishing the buildings
acquired preparatory to constructing this
great terminal will be begun WITHIN d
month according to the present plans. IN
the absence of more definite lnioi1ha'ioi
The generally accepted area OF me ne"
station and terminal may be s,aten li.is
extending from Madison to Lexington
a.,an,,a :. :, n from Forty-second to Forty
nt.h street with Vanderbilt Avenue ana
3 1,anaw r,Iace converted into arcanes
thrn,,ph sections OF the enormous sruc-
ture. The tentative plans conte N.i.t, "a
hotel, which may vie IN helshl VIZ 80
+ taller buildings of the city III,
! ri demands
10 made on the proposed structure may
~ Nod when it is stated that last year
..s,or' * On coo passengers entered tne
Grand Central Station. The 2o,ooo.''o
marx Will be reached before long.
Quite distinct from the New YORK zen
trails project Is that OF the Fennsy,-
xan;a railroad for tunnelling the North
ond4East Rivers for the purpose not only
NJ entering the city and establishing
an immense station In It's very
heart. but OF passers beyond for the de-
yclopment of Long Island.
Az the details of the great undertaking
GRADUALLY became known New York slow
" began to realize that outside enterprise
was literally forcing upon her improve
ment which wa sto rank AMONG the mrs.
railroad and engineering projects OF the
world Some months ago the shaft for the
North River end Of the tunnel was sunk,
and this week the last purchases were
made for t he East River shaft, This week.
= TOO the work OF demolshing the buildings
on the station site was begun. Tbs NAM
moth building to be patterned somewhat
after the Quai dOrslay In Paris, but
with twice the area. vii cover the blocks
between Thirty-frst and Thirty-third
Streets, Seventh and Ninth Avenues, and
will be provided with every known modern
device for the handling OF passenger
traffic, baggage and SO on.
AS in the case of the New York Central,
dwellings to the number of some 400,
churches institutions, Will be demolish-
ed to make way for the greatb structure.
Sufficient land has also been acquired to
allow other buildings, including a hotel
being erected as a part of the great en-
terprise. The total outlay for land is es-t
timated at about 100000.
BUT A PART.
This, however. Is but part of the vast
scheme which the Pennsylvania Railroad
has undertaken. Over In Long Island City.
at a point where the Long Island Rail-
roads yards end. another huge station
10 to be built. for the handling Of the
Pennsylyania's passenger trains. The
Pennsylvania tunnel under the East
River will emerge about a mile and half
from the Long Island City shore line of
the river, or at the end of the present
yards, near Thompson Avenue Here the
new terminal will be built the switch
yard to extend about a mile farther.
The franchise of sem-circular road
connecting the Pennsylvania terminals
at Bay Ridge and Port Morris with that
In New York city will be held by the
New York Connecting Railroad Company,
whose application for permission to build
Its line and to build also bridge across
He'll Gate and establish a terminsl at
Port Morris, Is now before the Rapid
Transit Commission, This. too, is
Pennsylvania Railroad enterprise. large
enough In itself, hut tremendous when
looked at as the last link In this COM
prehensiye scheme to connect all the east
with all the west. For the bridge, which,
heRinning at Part Morris. will span Ran
dalls Island GROSS to Wards Island and
then over to Astoria, will connect the
Pennsylvania Long Island lines with the
New York. New Haven and Hartford