The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-03-23
PLANS FOR NEW STATION
THE PROPOSED NORTHWESTERN
BUILDING is A BEAUTY.
ONE OF THE FINEST IN THE STATE
Plans Were Shown to demonstrators
Last Evening and an Effort Made to
Harmonlze the Differences Over
Closing Park Avenue.

Harmonlze the Differences Over
Closing Park Avenue.
lFrom Tuesdays Dailyl
Blue prints of plans Tor the proposed
new passenger station of the Chicago
& Northwestern have been completed
and are in the hands of the officers of
the company at this place. The plans
contemplate the erection of splendid
structure 1i0 feet long by twenty.four
! feet wide, built of stone and brick
with a heavy massive roof. relieved by
a central projection. The building
will thus occupy n space of nearly n
half block long, while the train plat
form will extend practically the full
length of two blocks. The passenger
station contemplated in the plans does
not include a freight depot, which is
to be built to the south of the passen-
ger station within the two blocks, pro
vided the proposition of the company
is accepted and the street vacated so
as to make possible the erection of
the station according to plans sub
mittcd.
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into two large waiting rooms, one for
women, "a by 80, and the other for
men, % by "a Opening off from each
of these are to be toilet rooms, con.
veniently arranged for use of patrons
of the road. Between the two, occupy
ing in part n large bay window, is the
ticket Office and n passage way from
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of these rooms is to be baggage room
19 by 80. The interior arrangement
is very similar to the handsome new
station of the Northwestern and Mis-
souri, Pacific at Lincoln.
The station If built will be one that
the citizens of Norfolk will be proud
of, and General Superintendent Hughes
gives assurance it will be the best sta.
tion on the line of the Northwestern
west of the Missouri river, with the
exception of the union stations at Ere.
mont and Lincoln.
General Superintendent Hughes and
C. C. Wright of the legal department
of the Northwestern, who was in the
city yesterday, invited number Of
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the street so that this station can be
built, to meet them at Mapes & Haz
ems Office last evening for the purpose
of exhibiting the plans, in the hope
that town pride would actuate the rem
onstrators to withdraw the remon-
STRANGE and injunction, which are act
| ing as a clog to prevent the erection
/ Of huil1inu Tbncp whn DttanInl
on behalf of the demonstrators were
w. II. Hoffman, Frank Estabrook, Mike
Finders, p. f. Bell, II. A. Pasewalk,
" Nenow, and others, with their at
torney, Judge Powers. These gentle
men are the leaders in the effort to
prevent the closing of the street, and
they are representative of the "a who
signed the petition addressed to the
city council some time ago remonstrat-
! ing against such proposed action. Be
sides, a number of members of the
Commercial club, who have been work
| ing to secure such a station, were
present.
Superintendent Hughes explained
the plans in detail and made the state
ment that for the railroad company to
erect such a building it will be neces-
sary to have ground extending at
least 600 feet in a continuous strip
along their track. This would neces.
state closing Park avenue across their
right of way. 1t was stated by the
superintendent that ir the company Is
allowed to put up the building as per
| plans that 1t is also the intention to
clear away the old stock yards and
other disagreeable features of the
neighborhood, and that all that por-
tion of the grounds not occupied by
. buildings and platforms would be nice
! ly parked. The reasons were ex-
planned why the company could not
move the station either one block
north or a similar distance south, and
that it is necessary to have that par
! ticular street if the plans are carried
out.
| Asked what the company will do
| if the street is not vacated, Mr.. Hughes
| replied that all it can do is to put up
the usual wood station in vogue at 9th
er towns along the line. The cost Of
/ the usual station is $4,000, while the one
proposed will cost between $4,000 and
$4,000. This seemed to be a surprise
| to some Of the demonstrators, who
carried the idea that the company
would build identically the same sta
tion whether the street is vacated or
not. They were assured that this
could not be done and would not be
done and it was practically up to them
whether they would stand in the way
of the city securing the station or
make it possible to get it.
After a considerable desutory dis.
cussion of the matter, Mr.. Wright sub
mitted two propositions: That the
whole matter go to the district court
at as early a day as possible, and that
a stipulation be entered into that the
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