The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21
he great waiting room.

] Nlt great Whiting room,
Ample means Of communication by
wire is provided In elaborately
equipped telegraph Offices where
, kilograms and ocean cable mes.
sages may be fled and telephone
booths are placed in various parts of
the building convenient for the use of
both city and long distance wires.
A Suburban Concourse.
\ splendid suburban cuncourse is
provided in the center of the station
on the street level floor extending
through from Canal to Clinton streets
through which suburban passengers
Inbound and outbound can conviently
reach the northern part of town via
Randolph or Washington street.
Those whose destination Is further
south can use the Madison street
entrance
The cab stands and automobile
stands are under cover. In fact,
everybody can arrive and leave the
terminal under cover, either by cab,
automobile or street car.
Another part of the great space that
Is to he utilized IS devoted to the care
of immigrants. Here, in a clean and
well lighted apartment with titled
floors and enamiled tiled walls, is a
waiting room, which, with its acces.
SORES, surpasse" anything that has
heretofore been provided for that
class of travel. There are bath rooms,
| toilet rooms, and dining room where
Tor small sum the immigrant can
get excellent service, lunchroom
kitchen. laundry tubs, and every con.
ceivable means of adding to their
comfort and cleanliness IF the immi-
grant who is so fortunate as to hold
ticket reading over the Northwest.
ern line.
President Hughitt has insisted that
all subways and all apartments in
| the lower story of the station shall
be bright, clean and cheerful; and
the architect has given all these low
er parts of the building a treatment
of cream colored enameled tile and a
brilliant lighting equipment.
The Washington Street Subway.
The structure crosses Washington
street over a subway, which of itself
Is work of architectural perfection.
rhe white enameled tile with which
the subway is lined, ard the brilliant
arrangement made for its electric
lighting, make it one of the most at
tractive features of the structure.
This subway at Washington street
has been provided with great portals
of granite, the arches of which are
treated in the monumental style of
architecture.
The street will be widened at this
point to 120 feet instead of the street
width of so feet. This provides for
the future widening o. the street
and the arched walls of the subway
will form as fine a paSsageway as one
would find in a fine hotel or beauti-
full home.
On the Main Floor.
On the second floor, which is the
train shed level, is splendid marble
lined waiting room, 100 feet long, 200
feet wide and so feet high with
vast barrel ventilated ceiling. The
walls are treated with a series of col
umns or colonnades corresponding
somewhat with the main entrance.
The lighting arrangements of this
room will be of most brilliant
character. On this floor will be, in
addition to the waiting room, one of
the finest dining rooms in the country,
splendid room, around the walls
of which will ne a series of panels
that can be utilized for magnificent
mural decorations portraying the his
tory of the west and the northwest
with which the development of the
Northwestern line has been so init
years. 1t is proposed to make the SER
vice in this dining room equal to that
of the best metropolitan hotels and
clubs.
On this main floor is also a ladies'
waiting room, a beautiful apartment,
reached by separate elevator service.
Connected with it are retiring rooms,
baths and toilet arrangements all of
which will be in charge of corps of
maid attendants.
Hospital Arrangement
Perhaps some of the most novel
features of the entire plan for the
new terminal, and of most interest to
the travelling public, are those which
are found on the third floor of the
building. Here away from the noises
Of the street and crowds, the archi-
tects have planned, with much skill
and forethought a series of rooms
wherein invalids or ladies with
children or infants, or others seeking
privacy, may go directly by private
elevator to rooms where they may
rest while waiting for connecting
trains, surrounded with convenences
for which one must usually go to
hotel or to ones own home. Here
are baths, tea rooms, and emergency
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