The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-09
Ideas Of Atlanta Man Are
Adopted by the Board
Of Directors
STATION WILL Be
FINEST IN THE SOUTH
Birmingham Terminal Company Is to
Spend Over 81 ,ooo, Station VIII
Be on Fifth Avenue and
Twenty-sixth Street.

lWenty-Sl<rn street.
At meeting held at 4 o'clock yester-
Gay afternoon In the Title Guarantee
and Trust company building the board
of directors of the Birmingham Terminal
company unanimously selected P. Thorn
ton Marye of Atlanta as the architect of
the new union passenger station to be
erected at Fifth avenue and Twenty
sixth street
The meeting was attended by George
B. Mccormack, president of the company.
representing the people of Birmingham;
]. s. B. Thompson, general agent of the
Southern railway at Atlanta and secretary
and treasurer of the company; James
Weatherly, representing the Seaboard: A.
D. Lightner, general agent In Birming-
ham of the Frisco system; A. Griggs,
superintendent of the Alabama Great Sou
thern. and Wilson Brown, senior membel
of the real estate firm of Brown Brothers
& Co., who conducted for the Birming
ham Terminal company its real estate ne
gotiations
Mayre's Easily Best.
OF the designs submitted by the five COM
peting architects, the one made by Mr..
Norge was UNANIMOUSLY pronounced to be
easily the most satisfactory. By persons
who have seen it, and who are COMPETENT
to form an intelligent opinion regarding
its merits, Mr.. Maryre's conception of
what the new station should be, within
the limits prescribed by the Birmingham
Terminal company, received the heartiest
commedation.
Though the Marye design is architec-
turally highly acceptable, it will probably
be modified in many respects before the
final plans and specifications are drawn
and the design for the new station is
ultimately made
For the present, at least, it may be au-
thoritatively stated that the selection of
the Marye design contemplates and makes
certain the erection at Fifth avenue and
Twenty-sixth street a union passenger
station which in architectural attractive
ness and purposes of utility will excel
anything else of its kind south of the
Potomac and Ohio rivers Work on the
construction will Begin at the earliest
moment practicable. The new station will
be finished and ready for occupancy jan
uary /, 1907,
Where 1t VIII Stand.
The station will face West Twenty
sixth street. the northern wing of the
building extending to Sixth avenue and
the southern wing to Fourth avenue. At
the eastern wing will be the baggage
rooms, at the western wing the mail and
express section. Between them will be
the reception rooms, offices and dining
rooms.
The station will be built of brick, not
unlike the kind used in the construction
of the Title Guarantee and Trust building
at Twenty-first street and Third avenue.
When completed the building will repre-
sent an expenditure approximately OF
$500, 600 Including the cost Of the site,
tracks and other terminal equipment, the
new station will involve an expenditure
of about $1,0Oo000.
A feature of the station will be the sepa-
rate accommodations provided for the
white and negro patrons of the various
railways. These accommodations, though
distinctly separate, will in equipment and
comfort be satisfactory to both races the
negroes. as we'll as the whites being
given every possible facility in the way
of reception and dining rooms. But the
compartments will be so arranged that,
in entering and leaving the station, and In
going to and from the trains, white and
negro patrons will be kept apart
Sets a Standard.
All nersons who know of the magnitude
and beauty of the proposed new station
recognize that it's erection indicates ac-
ouratelv the true line of Birmingham's
development. 1t will be easily the most
impressive looking building in the city,
and superior to the new union station IN
Atlanta. 1t will be modern In every de-
tail. and adapted not only to the needs
of the Birmingham of today but to the
Greater Birmingham of tomorrow and
of many years to come. 1t will set
standard of the progressive metropolitan
spirit that has made Birmingham one of
the great urban ce2ters of the south, and
1t is confidently expected that the munici-
pal authorities and the people will see
to it that the streets and avenues lead
Ing to the station are put and kept in a
condition that will be suitable to the
beautiful structure that will rise i'm
pressively at Twenty-sixth street and
Fifth avenue.
When finished the station will be used
by the Southern, the Alabama Great
Southern, the Central of Georgia, the
Frisco and the Seaboard Air Line-in
fact, all the passenger roads in Birming-
ham except the Louisville and Nash
vile.
Sketch Of the Architect.
P. Thornton Marye. the architect whose
design was successful. was born in vir-
einia thirty-two years ago. He is a men,
her of a family that has won high rank
In various fields of effort in the Old Do
minion. 1t was for one of his kinsmen
that the famous Marye's Heights at
Fredericksburg was named-the storm
center of the battle fought there forty
four years ago when the Confederates un-
der Lee and Jackson rerAllsed the des-
perate charges made by the Federals I'M
der the command of Burnside.
Mr.. Marye is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Virginia where he won dis
tincffon as a student After leaving COL