The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01
The Details of Proposed New
} Warehouse at Kansas City.
TO Be Built by the Rock Island
Frisco System.
sCOST ONE MILLION.
Construction to Begin Late This
Summer.
tOssip and Matters OF Interest
in Railroad Circles.

in regard to the proposed warehouse to
he built at Kansas City by the Rock
ssland-Frisco system:
Cost l million dollars.
: OF brick, erinforced concrete and
steel.
VIII have seven towers, IL electric ele-
Rators, with a capacity of 10000 pounds
each.
E Storage capacity of 1000 cars.
Seventy-two offices in the building.
! Thnee hundred and twenty cars can
" unloaded in ten hours.
Elmer E. Pierson and the Rock Is
land and Frisco railroads control the
proposition.
VI Other railroads may secure facilities
by paying terminal charges to the own
Is.
Z est of Franklin avenue.
Land 1,640 feet by 112 feet, leased for
SO years from the Kansas City, Fort
Scott & Memphis Railway company.
Construction to begin this fall ware
, house to be opened for business in the
Largest storage warehouse in the
4 country, 1.400 by so feet, six stories
- Next largest, Baltimore & Ohio
uthwestern at Cincinnati, 1877 feet
itong and five stories high.
1t has been fully a year since Elmer
E. Pierson, who has an office in the
sBryant building, began TO interest the
Rock Island and the Frisco railroads
~ the project. Following frequent con-
? lences with r. L. Winchell, president
the Rock Island, and A. J. Davidson,
> PRESIDENT of the Frisco system, the pro-
ect has been finally successfully con-
luded Mr.. PieTson leased the ground
rom the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
-emphis Railway company, now con-
rolled by the Frisco railroad, and then
altered into a contract with the Rock
=land-Frisco system for the construc-
IN of the warehouse. The papers
ave been taken to New York for the
T lgnature of D. G. Reid, chairman of
he executive committee of the Frisco
.ystem The 80 year lease on the
.sround, taken by Mr. Pierson, will go
On record next week.
b, South of Twelfth Street.
u The ground acquired for this purpose
is at the intersection of the south line
( of Twelfth street and the west line OF
Franklin avenue, thence southerly along
ehe west line of Franklin avenue l,64O
Feet, thence westerly at right angles to
ssranklin avenue 11z feet, thence north
.1y parallel to Franklin avenue to
outh line of Twelfth street, thence
easterly along the south line of Twelfth
street to the place of beginning. Frank
ling street is the first street west of
the West bluff.
Vine Ol lIllS 4llllAlCIlSC VOL
buse will accomplish more to relieve
lie congestion of freight in Kansas City
Ian any other similar project yet sug-
listed. Kansas City has become the
treat distributing center for trade IN
he west and southwest. The new ware
house will be a clearing house for
freight of every character except coal,
\ sand, hay and grain. 1t will be equip
ped with every facility for the rapid
and economic handling of every varie-
~ - pTso17a Il eo a lowest
compatible with first class service.
There will be seventy-two offices pro-
vided in the building for the use of
men that do business with the company
and for officials of the Rock Island and
Frisco railroads. Here the executive
offices of the company will be maintain
3 ed. While the warehouse will be con-
trolled by the Rock Island-Frisco COM
bination other roads may use it by
paying charges to the owners.
OF Fireproof Construction.
There will be five storage floors with
a storage capacity of $4,000 tons There
will be seven towers in the building,
each equipped with two elevators with
a capacity of 10000 pounds each. Water
tanks will surmount the towers. The
company controls an area lip feet wide
giving ample room for the entrance of
railroad tracks and a roadway for the
use of teams. The building will be en-
tirely freproof and will be lighted by
electricity and heated by steam.
"Such a warehouse will remove the
! unsatisfactory freight conditions now
: existing said a Kansas City railway
man this morning. ct will insure the
rapid and economic handling of freight
At such a awrehouse 400 or 500 cars
could be handled in ten hours The
average detention of cars on the Frisco
or Missouri Pacific railroads is five DAYS
and on the other lines in Kansas City
from six to eleven days. With this
warehouse there is no reason why, every
car of freight in Kansas City could not
ne un1oaded and returned within forty
ght hours. Kansas City is increasing
trade more rapidly than hardly any
g realizes, and the handling of freight