The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-26
MAMMO1HSHOPS
TO Be OPENED
by NEW YORK CENTRAL RAIL.
ROAD SIX MILES FROM
INDIANAPOLIS.
AT BEECH GROVE
Six Hundred and Forty Acres In Tract
Bought BY Company For Site
Shops Will Be Opened
October /.

More than a million dollars have
been spent thus far this summer IN
improvements at the little town Of
Beech Grove. the new railroad center
being established by the New YorS
Central lines on the Big Four road %
Cincinnati about six miles southeast
ot indianapolis
The erecting shop and the boiler
house. the former TO cost $4,000
and the latter $500 600, are nearing
completion. and the power plant. be
ing rejected at cost Of 100000, and
the forge shop. which will cost per-
haps $4,000, are far under way
In addition 10 these improvements.
thirty houses and one b1siness block
have been built, while a score or more
have been strted. and several squares
of gravel street with curbing and
wide cement walks have been com
pleted.
Progress Of the improvement work
was noted yesterday afternoon. when
the Beech Grove improvement com
pany took its stockholders and a
number of invited guests TO the new
town in a special Big Four coach that
they might see just what is being
done and what yet remains 10 be
completed. The forty or more per
sons making the trip were astonished
at The magnitude Of the undertaking.
Where last spring corn fields and pas
lures were undisbIrhed now have
been reared mammoth structures o.
steel and concrete which give the re
gion the appearance of the site Of
some big exp, sition.
Like Huge Eippodrome.
The buildings being erected by the
railroad company are Of the hes con
struction possible The erecting shop
the largest structure OF the fifty
seven contained in the gro P-looks
like a huge hippodrome. Il is 527
feet long and $50 feet wide. while
the peak of the roof is eighiytwo fesi
above the ground. The superstruc-
ture Is of steel and the exterior Of
brick and glass-mostly glass, Il
seems. there being $4,000 panes in all,
Some ideal of the buildings gigantic
size may be gained through knows
edge Of the fact thai the cornice
alone. which goes around the bald
ing. contains $4,000 worth of coppe-
Inside are fifty-two engine pits, each
pit to contain nineteen men when the
work Of building locomotives is be
gun.
The boiler house is even larger than
the erecting shop. being 5S5 feet in
length. but is not so wide. the width
being an even 200 feet. The struct-
IRE has a riveing tower 100 feet
high. To the east Of this is the pow
.er plant-being constructed Of rein
forced concrete throughout-with a
chimney 222 feet high. whose inside
diameter measures twelve feet
West OF the 6i0 acres bought by
the railroad company az shop sites IS
the new town. which Is springing mp
much after the fashion OF mush-
rooms. Main street has been laid out
for its entire length and the gravel
roadway is bordered by cement walks
eight feet wide. Down in the center
of the town. where Fifth avenue in
tersects Main street a substantial
twostory brick store and Office build
ing has Just been about completed.
and diagonally opposite ground has
been broken far large bank and OF
fee building A square vest the Cen
trail Union Telephone company has
cleared site for an exchange build
ing.
House, for Worknen.
The houses that have been com
pleted are substantial looking and Of
neat appearance. their cost rangine
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