The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14

The new $750,O0O union station at
Salt Lake City, built by the Salt Lake
City Union Depot and Railroad com.
pany for the Denver & Rio Grando
railroad and the new Western Pacific
railway, which has been in course of
construction for nearly two years, is
now about completed, and commencing
August Is trains of the Denver & Rio
Grande and Western Pacific will ar
rlve and depart from the new station.
This splendid structure, designed by
Henry ]. Schlacks, will rank architec-
turaly and from working standpoint
with any of the large union stations
constructed throughout the United
States In recent years.
The depot site is piece of property
1452 feet long and $50 feet wide, only
four blocks from the exact commercial
center of the rapidly growing city of
Salt Lako. The impressive station
building is All feet long by 90 feet
wide. II centers on Third South street,
one of the main business thoroughfares,
and has an immense approach or fore
ground on the. town side and largo.
rooMy, covered platforms paralleIing
the tracks on the railroad eide.
The center portion of the building
contains waiting room Ia feet long
by SO feet wide, with clear height Of
5S feet from floor to ceiling. This large
room is lighted by three immense
arched windows on each side (each
2Sx30 feet) through green opaiescent
glass The interior Of the waiting room
is treated in an adaptation of n classic
style of architecture similar to the ex-
terror, the color scheme being brownish
red and gray for tho walls with deep
brown for the ceiling. All Of this,
combined with the green light through
the windows, gives the room q dignified
| QuictneSs.
In tho wings of the building ut each
end Of the waiting room are provided
all the accessories necessary to every
large railroad depot, In one end are
the baggage, express and parcel rooms
while in tho other end are provided
everything necessary for the comfort of
travellers, including mems smoking
room, women's retiring room, restau-
rant. etc. In the ceuter of the large
waiting room are the ticket Offices
news stand. telegraph and telephone Of
fees and other conyeniences for the
travelling public.
In the second story of the main struc
ture are the railroad companies Offices
The heating and lighting plants have
been located in a separate building a,
the south end Of the property, some
500 feet from the main building. The
best Of material of tho various kind:
has been employed in the structure
For the exterior there is a marble base
of white Colorado Yule marble five feet
high all around the building The bal
ance of the exterior rs in terra colt;
and red New jersey rain. washed brick
The roofs are of red tile The building
is absolutely fireproof and is treated or
the interior with tile floors throughou
and with marble wainscoting. nll har
monizing with the general color effec
of the different rooms.
Henry j. Schlacks, the well known
architect of Chicago. has designed
! building to suit all practical require
ments combined with an artistic char
, acter. Among Mr.. Schlacks's notabl
productions is st, Paul's church, Chi
, cago. the only masonry gothic vnulte,
building in this country Tho benutifu
Rio Grande station at Grand Junction
Colo. was also designed by him,
At each end Of the building the com
rauy has parked plot of ground 30