Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-07
Underground Arrangements.

The railway station where passengers
and baggage will be trans ferred between
the cars of the tunnels and subways to
upper New York and Brooklyn will be
on the second floor below the surface The
trains will follow each other around a big
loop. coming in at Cortlandt and passing
out at Fultan street. arriving through one
tunnel and going out through another,
always in the same direction, at intervals
of three minutes: stopping just long
enough to discharge their passengers and
baggage on one platform and receive an
other load on different platform on the
other side. Thus collisions and conges-
ton and confusion will be avoided.
The first floor under the surface will
contain the waiting room including a
concourse 10000 feet square, where the
passengers will buy their tickets, check
their baggage, and be distributed to the
different lines. Surrounding this enormous
room will be a great department store.
where passengers and suburbanites can
do their marketing and shopping without
going out of doors. There will be tela-
graph Offices barber shops, news stands.
fruit and flower booths. confectionery
| shops, government post Office restau-
rants and cafes. telephone booths. a bar
room. parcel room. cigar stores. Offices
where railway and steamship tickets to
all parts of the world may be obtained
and shops for the sale OF all the nsces-
saries of life.
The second floor below ground 1 have
already described
On the third floor. sixty feet below the
surface. is the machinery. the plants for
| producing power and light and heat, for
ting shafts; and there will be complete
! refrigerating plant for the use of the
tenants above. All this will be entirely
| independent of the electrical system that
furnishes motive power for the trains
That will be located on the fourth floor
eighty feet from the surface, and the
machinery will rest on bed rock The
fourth floor does not extend under the
entire building, but only under about one
! third of it,
near the present terminals station of the
Pennsylvania RAILROAD where massive
engines, capable of producing 10000
horsepower, are now being installed.
Many Millions Invested.
| The Hudson and Manhattan Rallw 7
Company owns the building. which, with
the tunnels. represents an investment of
about $iD.OOO.G0O. the capital having oeen
| furnished by a syndicate organized by
| Harvey Fisk & Sons. the bankers. The
building is the largest in the world, 4OO
| by 1Io feet. % stories high. $4,000 square
| feet on the ground and includes 1.1S2.OOl
| square Ieet OF moor space. equivalent TO
y acres. The building and the land cost
$40, 600 and it is two and q half times
as large as the Broad Exchange building.
which was the largest ever erected in the
world until now. Another enormous
structure called the Whitehall building
| Is soon to be erected on the Battery but
| it will not be so large as the Hudson and
Manhattan terminal. 'ile Broad Tx
change building occupies 7.OOO.OOO cubic
| feet of space; the new Whitehall building
will occupy 12OOO.OOO cubic feet. and the
terminal buildings 1S, 100000 cubic feet OF
space. The Whitehall building will cover
an area of $1,000 square feet. while the
| terminal building. as 1 have already said,
covers 1900 square feet
| AS I walked through this wonder of
buildings today with Mr.. Higgins of the
firm of Harvey Fisk & Sons, he gave me
some extraordinary statistics concern
ing it.
| 1t Is the only building in the world. in
which space has been rented by the acre.
The Erie Railway Company has, taken
two acres of floor space: the United
States Steel Corporation has taken one
and one-half acres. In which 1t will in
stall the Carnegie Steel Company, the
American Bridge Company. the Unl,ed
States Steel Export Company. the Ameri-
| can Sheet and Tin Plate Company. the
| American Steel and Wire Company. the