Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-10-25
MAMMOTH TERMINAL
The Great Hudson Tunnel Build
ing In New York.
WILL HOUSE TEN THOUSAND.
Millions Of Passengers Will Be Han.
died Yearly In the Big Structure.
Trains For All Ponts-MIes Of Ter
ra Gotta Bricks Being Used.

Announcement was made recently OF
some interesting facts in connection
with the facilities and plan of the
Hudson company's terminal building
In New York city, covering two blocks
along Church street and north of Cort-
landt street, which is being rushed TO
completion. Ii is estimated that when
the building is finished and the various
offices ON the twenty-five floors are oc-
cupied the structure will house 10000
souls, says the New York sun. From
this can he drawn the comparison that
the building will be populated in an
equal number with such cities as
Portsmouth, y. H.; Helena, Mont, and
Middletown, Conn. and will exceed in
population the largest towns in four
states-Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico
and Nevada.
There will he thirty-nine elevators In
the building. and il is estimated that
about 1S2.OOO.OO0 persons will pass
through the building in entering or
leaving trains in the course of year.
The new Grand Central station is de-
signed to handle 10O,000.0O0 persons
year, and the new Pennsylvania sta
tiop at Thirty-third street will be built
to accommodate 146,OO0,OOO. The South
station in Boston only takes care of
30O00,000 year, and the Broad street
depot in Philadelphia handles 10000
OOO
From this new terminal building
one will be able to go to almost any
corner of the country, as the trains
running into 1t will connect with all
subways and consequently with all the
big railroads. The trains arriving from
the terminals under the North river and
connecting with the various city sub
ways will enter and depart thirty feet
below the street level. There will he
five loading tracks and six huge plat
forms to avoid crowdlng. \ great
deal of attention has been paid to
safety, and elaborate plans have been
laid to eliminate any possibility of Il
tie-up Careful provisions have been
made for the possibility of fire. All
the cars of the trains will be of steel,
and the terminal building is so con
structed that should fire start In any
one room of the building it will be
hardly likely to spread to another.
The huge steel frame of the building
weighs more than $4,000 tons and rests
on foundations extending TO bedrock,
eighty feet below &e street. At no
point will this steel frame he exposed.
Every inch will be covered with one
or more courses of hollow terra Gotta
blocks, which form inclosed air spaces
about all parts of the frame. In the
San Francisco fire the exposed steel
frames of buildings did not burn. but
they buckled. wreclling the structures
and causing much injury and loss. Be
fore being placed about the frame the
hollow blocks are heated TO tenn
perature of 1000 degrees This terrific
heat leaves the terra Gotta in perfect
porous state, capable of resisting prac-
tically any heat without danger of dis
Indignation.
If all the terra Gotta blocks used on
the building were built into wall ten
feet high the mass would stretch along
for twenty eight miles. Above the
curb line there will be used a total of
100000 bricks and 100000 square
yards Of plastering. There will be over
sixteen miles of plumbing pipe, twenty
nine miles of steam pipe and ninety five
miles of electrical conduit in the build.
ing when completed Each floor of the
building will provide an acre of office
space, so that the entire structure will
afford twenty-five acres for business
purposes.