The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-05-11
NEW STATION A
| THING Of BEAUTY
Public Compliments Nickel
Plate For Finest Sta
tion in Hammond.
is THROWN OPEN TO PUBLIC
Hammond Deserves New Structure
and It is Hoped Others Will
Follow Suit.
IS THROWN OPEN TO PUBLIC

Th new Nickel Plate and Lake Shore
depot was dedicated this morning by
the simple stopping OF the first train.
That was not much of ceremony in
itself. but it meant a great deal to
Agent II. w. Duffner, who has repre-
sented the company ever since the first
depot was a wheelless freight car and
to the public today who see an end of
the era of inadequate depot facilities
In the opening of one Of the finest ralf-
way stations along the line.
The new depot is a beauty, archi-
tecturally. and its arrangement, in
point of utility, is admirably adapted
to the purpose. The building is of
the most substantial construction and
there is not a Hammond citizen who
has watched the growth of the cit1
from an unimportant railroad crossing
to a great municipality who does not
see in this new depot the realization
of one of their dreams after a score
of years of waiting.
Hammond Deserved 1t.
1t is exceedingly fitting that Ham
mond. a city which boasts Of it's won
derful railroad facilities, should have
some tangible evidence of the wealth
year to the eyes of the enterprising
Hammondites, the magnificent new rail-
way station stands as indisputable evil
dence of the commercial attainments OF
the city during the past twenty years
The new depot is a long, narrow,
structure of brick and stone 1t was
the structure to the limited space that
aG@ or yfOlx ~
Plate railroad right of way.
At each end of the building are long
rooted shelters where passengers who
may desire to wait outside of the depot
may do so and yet be safe from the sun
and weather.
Site For Small Park.
All of the platforms around the
depot are of concrete. making it pos
sible to keep the approaches to the
depot clean with little effort. At the
triangular space between the tracks
and Sibley street a little plot OF
ground has been sodded and fenced of
and the whole impression Of the depot
from first appearance is that of an ex-
ceedingly orderly place.
The building proper is divided into
four principal rooms. There is the
outlook up and down the tracks and
flanked on either side by a mems and
a woman's waiting and lounging room
The floors of the depot are of con-
crete treated with rubber-like sub
stance which givs 1t the appearance
of being covered with a heavy lineo.
leum in both of the waiting rooms ant
vided in both of the waiting rooms and
there will be plenty of room to accom-
modate the crowds which are likely Il
tax the capacity of the depot
All COnveniences Provided.
The walls of the depot are of vel
low pine strips filed and vanished
and give the whole interior a clean
sanitary appearance. There are space.
allotted for bulletins both inside ant
outside of the building.
The depot is provided with a steam
heating device which is placed In
cellar of waterproof concrete Thi,
will do away with the old circular cas-
iron stove with which Hammond de
pots have heretofore been equipped anC
will make the depot cleaner and NOR,
uniformly heated.
AS an indication Of the pride tha
the railroad officials have taken in tn