The Jersey City news., 1906-06-02

ming the bore 250 to 300 feet east and
west Of each shaft, according to the
length of the section.
| The same procedure, only on short sec
| tion. is followed on the New York end of
the tunnel running east from the New
York station, which, while called ter
minal, is in reality station, as no trains
will end the run at that point. All the
! eastbound trains will continue, after dis
charging passengers, to Long Island City,
to make up for the return trip, and
trains from the east will come to the
Harrison yard to make up. The yards
will be for the Pennsylvania about what
the Secaucus yards will be for the Dela-
ware, Lackawanna and Western and the
Erie railroads.
Present plans do not call for passen-
ger terminal or transfer station there, as
originally intended, but this end of the
arrangement is still subject to change.
Much will depend on where the points of
electrifcation begins, a matter which has
not been fully determined.
I Nothing now exists in this country
which will compare in vastness and COM
| pleteness with the great station which
the Pennsylvania is now building in
Manhattan. The site, which is now
yaywning abyss, embraces two full-size
city blocks, and extends from Seventh
| to Eighth avenue and from Thirty-frst
| to Thirty third streets. The frontage on
| the avenues is 430 feet and on the streets
| 7S0 feet. The tracks will be forty feet
below the street, so the building will be
on these levels From the street the
walls viii rise sixty feet, except in cen
ire. where the roof of the general wait
ing-room will rise to $50 feet, and at the
corner of Eighth avenue and nirty-
third street where there will be an ele-
yation of four stories for offices. The
design of the exterior is Doric colonade
7 thirty-fve feet high, surmounted by a
low attic. The material used is to be-
pink Melford granite, the same as that
used in the Boston Public Library.
The main entrance will be>in the cen
tre of the structure on Seventh avenue,
opposite the intercepted end of Thirty
second street. This will be for foot pas
sengers only. and from the street en-
trance to the stairway to the main wait
| ing-room there will extend an arcade 225
| feet long and 40 feet wide, fanked by
shops. On either side of the Seventh
avenue entrance there will be also ser
| les of stores. At the further end of the
arcade the restaurant lunchrooms and
| cafe will be established. Beyond will be
the general waiting-room and the con-
| course. At the corners of Thirty-hrst
! and Thirtytthird streets and Seventh ave
nue will be open pavilions, which Will
furnish carriage entrances for incoming
and outgoing traffic. Under cover, car
riages will descend from the street level
by a slight gradient about twenty feet
to the level of the station proper, the
Thirty-first street incline being assigned
as an entrance and the Thirty-thlrd
street ascent as an exit.
The general waiting room will be the
largest of its kind in the world, $40 feet
long, 10 feet wide and $50 feet high.
Within will the the ticket offices, parcel
rooms, telegraph and telephone offices
and baggage checking windows. Ad-
joining the general waiting room on the
west will be two subsidiary waiting
rooms, 5Sx1O0 feet, for men and women.
respectively. To the east of the general
waiting room will be the main baggage
room, with $50 feet of frontage, for the
use Of the transfer wagons. The baggage
will be delivered and taken away through
a special subway thirty feet wide, ex-
tending under and along the entire length
of Thirty-first street and Seventh and
Eighth avenues The cabstands will also
occupy this level.
Parallel to ad connecting with the
main waiting-room by a wide thorough
fare and west of the subsidiary waiting
rooms will be the concourse, a covered
assembling place over 100 feet wide, ex-
tending the entire width of the station
and under the adjoining streets. An idea
of the width of this may be gained by a
comparison of it with the lobby of the
Jersey City trainshed, which is narrower
by twenty-five feet. The concourse and
adjacent areas will be open to the tracks,
forming a courtyard $40 feet wide by 210
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| to Colorado, leaving Buffalo July 18th.
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