Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-12-04
GREATEST DEPOT
Completion Of the Pennsylvania Com.
pany's Station In New
York.

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No aggregation of superlatives can
give an adequate conception of the
extent and beauty of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Companys terminal in New
York city, which will be practically
ready Dec. /, 1909 1t win require
time and personal in pection to bring
out the magnitude OF the marvellous
work and the perfect system connect
ed Herewith.
The first stone in the masonry was
laid June -, 1898, and the last was
put down July IL of the present year
The walls of the station are nearly
half mile in extent and inclose eight
acres Of ground. The entire territory
is bounded On the north by Thirty
third street, on the east by Seventh
avenue. on the south by Thirty-first
street and on the west by Ninth ave-
nue..
II is the most capacious railroad
station in the world. It's completion
transforms a hitherto unnotieed and
In some respects squalid section of
the metropolis into pulsating CEN
Ter of trade and commerce. By rea-
son of the ramifying system of the
Pennsylvania company the termin-
al becomes the artery of travel from
the great west and from New Eng
lard connecting with the travel and
traffic OF the south. IT also includes
great postoffiCe building It brings
to realization the dream o. the late
A. J. Cassatt Who in the last years
IF the last century stood on the west
shore o. the Hudson river and said
to his engineers 1--WE must cross it,
The exterior of the walls of the ter
minal represents 100000 cubic feet of
granite. Sixty thousand cubic feet
of granite are represented inside the
concoyrse. The structure has 81 900
tons or steel The walls contain 15,-
COO, 900 bricks, weighing $4,000 tons
1t is estimated that if these bricks
were placed end to end they would
reach from the site CT the terminal to
Galveston, Tex, with enough left over
for another line from New York city
to Philadelphia and nearly a scora of
miles to spare.
Expansive stairways descend from
the concourse to each of the pat
forms, which, with the tracks, form
the third level, forty feet below the
Of he go
course is the great roof OF the train
she'd
In clearing the way for this stluc-
ture and its adjoining buildings the
Pennsylvania company purchased four
blocks of compactly built houses, in
volving the tearing down of 500 tene-
ments. The entire area of the termin-
al includes twenty-eight acres. The
total terminal trackage is sixteen
miles in extent There are eleven
passenger platforms. total of four
miles. and twenty-five elevators. The
artificial light of the building will con-
sist of 10000 electric bulbs and cleo
troliers. The daily service of this
enormous structure will consist of
400 Pennsylvania trains and 900 Long
Island trains. The capacity of the
terminal will be about 100000 passen-
gers a day. The maximum capacity
of all the tunnels is 144 trains an
hour. The number of columns sup
porting the whole building IS $50, the
greatest weight on any one column
being 1858 tons. The entire structure
is 744 feet long and 43S feet wide,
with an average height above the
street of 90 feet and maximum
height of 153 feet. The central wait
ing room is 227 feet long and 1913 feet
wide. The entire system when COM
pleted will represent an outlay of
| $3.50, 900 000 Just what the terminal
building alone will cost is not stated.
The vast work Of tunneling the two
rivers and of preparing the yards for
storage purposes in New Jersey and
on Long Island is another story
Washington Herald.