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NEARING COMPLETION

MEANING COmPEE ION
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Eighth avenues. From the baggage
room trunks will be delivered TO the
tracks below by motor trucks and
elevators. The cab stands viii also
occupy this level.
Parallel to and connecting with the
main waiting room by wide thor.
oGghfare and west of the subsidiary
waiting rooms is the concourse, Gov.
cred assembling place, 100 feet wide,
extending the entire width of the sta
tion and under the adjoining streets.
This concourse and adjacent area open
on to the tracks. forming a courtyard
$40 feet wide and 210 feet broad, roof
ed by lofty train shed of iron and
glass.
The federal government will erect
$5,OOO,O00 postoffice on the adjoIn-
ing block TO the west, between Eighth
and Ninth avenues and Thirty-flrst and
Tbirty-third streets, which will be ar
ranged SO that postal cars from all The
tunnels that concentrate in the Peln-
sylyania terminal can be run into The
basement and there discharge the
mails at an economy of two hours
time over the present system Ar
rangements will be made with the
local subways for handling all tie
mails from the many substations and
hY, Ia t.N(G f., a..
The designs for the new postoffice
| are now being made, and It is expected.
that the work of construction will be.
gin next fall
The east side of the Pennsylvania
terminal, fronting upon Sixth avenue,
where it intersects Broadway, is now
being erected what will be the largest
single building for department store
in New York. and II will have about
the same acreage of floor space as
Marshall Fields in Chicago-altogeth-
er about twenty-three and one-half
acres.
For four years Douglass Robinson,
a brother-in-law of Theodore Roose.
welt and real estate agent in this
city, has been negotiating for the
lease of this property, and he says
that it is the largest lease ever made
in the. United States. 1t covers sew.
| eral distinct pieces of property and
the deal has been negotiated with sew.
eral owners. but the terms are prac-
tically the same. The lease extends
for period of l05 years. with reap
praisements at periods of twenty-one
years. For the first twenty-one years
the total rentals Will amount to $12.-
5000, and although future appraise-
ments will depend entirely upon cir
cumstances, the period of lease rep.
resents rentals amounting in all proba-
bility to $7O,000.0OO in addition to tax
es, which will be paid by GimbeI
Brothers or their successors.
The building win be eleven stories
high and cost S11.00000O. 1t will be
sustained by 2,400 steel columns, which
are now being forged at the Bethle-
hem Iron works. The surface of the
outside walls will be equivalent to
seven acres. including two acres of
windows. There will be forty-flve show
windows on the ground floor, facing
on three streets. for total length of
VA feet. There will be twelve en-
frances and seventy-two doors; fifty
electric elevators, of which forty-one
VIII be for passengers and the re-
mainder for employees and freight. The
banisters protecting the stairways will
be one and one-half miles long; there
VIII be twenty-five miles of heating
pipe; 10000 sixteen candle power
lamps, connected with 100000 feet of
wire, running through thirty-eight
miles of conduit within the walls. A
i,ooO morse power engine Will furnish
the power. Although the building will
be fiieproof, 5000 automatic sprinklers
Will be fixed upon the several floors,
where the water can be turned on in.
stantly In case there should be Il fire
In the stock.
Seven thousand employees will be re.
quired within the building and with
the delivery wagons and other outside
connections, for whom there will be
many comforts and conveniences, such |
a. an emergency hospital. which will
also be used for customers; restaur-
nut, where 1000 clerks can be served |
A. the same time; a gymnasium. read.
ng and rest room for men and women,
md a school for cash boys and girls
md other children who will be en-