Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-24
THE NEW GATEWAY TO THE
METROPOLIS
The New Jersey Central Has a New
station in New York.

A generation ago view 1ork DuS-
lest corner was at Fulton street and
broadway. Old residents of the me-
tronoljs can recall the bridge that
formerly spanned Broadway at this
point. erected by the city so that pc
destrians might cross from n side
of The street to the other without en-
dangering their lives by attempting
TO thread their way9through the jam
of vehicles that made Broadway at
its junction with Fulton street al
most impossible. The office build
ings, the shopping district, the hotels
and theaters in those days were all
downtown within easy reach OF the
Liberty street ferry. To the business
man whose Office is located in the
lower end of Manhattan Island this
ferry is still the most convenient, but
the uptown march of trade a crea-
ted a demand for quicker access 10
the new business center of New
York and this demand has been met
by the erection of ferry houses on
the North River at the foot of West
Twenty-third street, from which
point what is now the heart of the
metropolis can be reached in a few
minutes. Statistics recently COM
piled by the police show hal New
York's busiest corner today is at the
junction of Fifth enn and Thirty
fourth street. Within the territory
bounded by Fourteenth street and
, Forty-second street are most of the
hotels. theaters and department
stores, as well as the W office
buildings. This busy section of the
city can now be reached from New
Jersey by way of the Twenty-third
street ferries as easily and almost as
quickly as can the downtown section
of the city be reached by the older
ferries. T~wenty-third street is the
new gateway TO the metropolis.
Eighteen months ago The Subur-
banite, describing the plans adopted
for the improvement of the water
front at the foot of West Twenty
third street, said: -Four railroads
and the city of New York will unite
to make this an imposing and con-
venient entrance to the city. Rang
ed along the water front side by side
will be the ferries of the Central
Railroad of New Jersey, the Lack
awanna, Erie and Pennsylvania. IN
stead of each road having a distirc-
tive ferry house, arrangements have
been made by which all the struc-
lures will harmoniZes in general pro-
portions and architectural treatment.
1t is the intention of the city to ac-
uuire the entire block bounded by
T-wenty-second and Tw%enty-third
! streets and Twelfth and Thirteenth
J avenues and transform this into a
fine approach OF esplanade. Another
convenience that will be much APP
| preciated by arriving passengers is
an immense shed of iron and glass
I fifty feet wide, which will extend
along the front of the ferry houses
and under which carriages and sur
face cars may be taken without en-
tering the open. In Indictment
| weather this will add much to the
convenience of passengers"
The new ferry house of the Cen
trail Railroad of New Jersey was be-
gun in February of the present year,
and was opened to the public in June
while still in course of construction
and finally completed about a month
ago. OF the four ferry houses at the
foot of West Twenty-third street il
occupies the extreme left. Next &c
it is the new building of the Lack
,,,,oa Do;IconI with iic toll inuy0r
and beyond that the ferry houses OF
the Erie and Pennsylvania Railroads
The Twenty-third street ferry
house of the New Jersey Central is q
two-story steel frame structure, COW
cred with copper sheathing of orna-
menta, design. No stone, brick or ce-
ment was used in its construction
1t has a frontage of 100 feet and q
total length of about ABS feet. Pass
ing under the metal awning or mar
quise, that projects beyond the ia
cade of the building n enters q
commodious lobby finished in quar-
tered oak. Here are the ticket off
ces, express office, information bur-
eau and telephone and telegraph
booths. Under each ticket window
is a shelf raised just high enough
from the floor so that the passenger
can deposit his valise upon it without
STOPPING when purchasing his ticket.
This is a little thing in itself, but sig
.tnificant as indicating how the COM
fort of the traveller has been consid-
cred in the construction of the build
ing even to the minutest detail.
Passing through the lobby just
described one comes next to the main
waiting room, a spacious hall finish
ed, like the lobby, in quartered oak
and with Il lofty, paneled ceiling. The
settees and newsstand are of hard
wood harmonizing with the interior
finish of the room. To the right of
the newsstand a door leads to the
women's waiting room, beyond which
is a toilet with walls of gray marble
and floor of t%errazza, a kind of mosa-
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