The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-06
N. ]. CENTRAL
RAILROADS
Great New Freight House in
Newark Opened for Busi-
ness Last Week.
THE BUILDING IS 357 FEET LONG

ALL OOAAOAAsN ~ 80
The opening of the mammoth build
ing of the Newark Warehouse Compa-
nv, at Mechanic, Lawrence and Ward
streets, Newark, on Thursday night OF
last week, was a notable commercial
and social event. The warehouse,
which has been constructed to facili-
tate the handling of the freight
traffic of the New Jersey Central
in the heart of the city of Newark was
thrown open to the public from 7:30 to
10 O'Clock ard thousands enjoyed the
hospitality of the warehouse company.
The municipalities of Newark, Jer-
sey City, Paterson, Elizabeth and Bay
onne were well represented by officials,
the mayors and members of the COM
mon councils of these cities having ac-
cepted invitations to be present. The
Newark Board of Trade, through its
president, Peter J. Campbell, appoint
ed special committee to represent
that organization.
The building was decorated with
1iags and bunting and several thousand
electric lights, Issler's band and or
chestra played during the reception,
and Davis served buffet lunch.
The following general officials of the
New Jersey Central received the
guests: w. G.. Besler, vice-president
and general manager t. B. Rooms,
freight traffic manager G. w. Hunt
ington, general superintendent; VIC.
Hope, general passenger agent /; j. A.
Taylor, general auditor j. 0. Osgood.
chief engineer G.. o, Waterman, secre-
tary and treasurer; f. T. Dickerson,
assistant secretary; E. M. Snyder,
general freight agent: E. E. Kerwin.
superintendent Central Division; f.
G.. Sherman. superintendent of tele-
graph, and C. l.. Hollis, superintend-
emit of ferries. President Geo. f. Baer
was also present. They were assisted
in making those present feel at home
by host of other officials of the COM
pany from the different divisions and
from the general offices of the COM
pany.
Few freight storehouses are so large
or so well adapted for the purpose for
which it was built. In point of size,
construction and equipment the New
ark warehouse is regarded, in the COM
mercial and railroad werld, as unique.
1t is of concrete and steel, and with
the exception of the Office furniture
and the flooring in the elevators, no
wood has been used anywhere, even
the window frames being of steel.
Each compartment is fitted up with
metal doors, as are the elevators and
air chuteS, which close automatically
as soon as they are submitted to GER
tain degree of heat. The entire build
ing is equipped with waite. sprinkling
devices, which are controlled automat-
ically by the temperature of the rooms.
Two elcctrically-driyen pumps, each
capable of discharging 750 gallons of
water a minute, are located in the
basement. A large tank in the base
ment contains $50, 900 gallons of water,
while a reserve supply of 60,OlO gallons
is contained in two large tanks on the
roof
An idea of the size of the building
may be had from the following figures !:
The length of the structure is 357 feet,
its average depth las feet, and it's
height from the curb 102 feet. The
ground area is $4,000 square feet, CIV
ing approximately an aggregate of20O,
900 square feet for the four floors used
for storage purposes.
In it's construction over 700 tons of
steel were used, while $4,000 barrels of
cement and $4,000 cubic yards of
cracked stone, besides.carloads of sand,
were put in the walls and floors. The
weight capacity of the floor is 300 lbs.
per square foot throughout and 500 lbs.
per square foot within certain areas.
The building has room for 1900 car
loads of freight, while fifty cars can be
accommodated on the six tracks ad-
Joining the freight platforms on the
second floor The ground floor is prin-
cipally given over to loading and I'M
loading platforms and wagon drive
ways.
There are nine large freight eleva-
tors, five barrel lifts and eight spiral
chutes connecting with each floor and
the freight platforms in the basement.
The platform elevators have capaci-
ty of 5000 pounds each, while the lifts,
on which barrels of flour or bags of
feed are automatically loaded and dis
charged, each has a capacity of eight
barrels minute.