The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27


solutely unnecessary.
Send your name and address today for
free trial package to Pyramid Drug Co.,
1SS Pyramid Bldg. Marshall, Mich
of Fifth West street. The main waiting
room is massive apartment. and from
the ceiling to the floor is sheer drop
of forty feet six inches.
When completed the waiting room will
be most inviting and attractive rest
ing place for passengers. The ceiling
and walls will, for the time being, be
left pure white. Massive columns will
grace the ends and sides Of the room.
and every possible comfort for pasSen-
gers and the general public will be af-
forded. The ceiling, even as seen
through the maze of scaffolding which
now occupies much of the space of the
big room, is little less than marvellous.
Extraordinary heavy beams have been
used and the cornices are fully six feet
below the ceiling proper. The entire
top is panelsd and the effect is a most
attractive one. The plastering of the
ceiling was commenced on February 10,
and is just about completed.
The waiting room proper will be
lighted by six large arched windows.
containing art glass and flooding the
entire room with a profusion of day.
light, while at night hundreds Of in
candescents in tasty chandeliers will
make the scene as bright as day.
Between the two main entrances is
located the spacious ticket office. which
has a circular front and sufficient room
to provide space for an army of ticket
sellers II occasion demands. At inter-
walls throughout the room will be To-
Gated comfortable seats and chairs for
passengers. Across the room, on the
west side Of the building. will be located
news stand and telegraph offices for the
convenience Of the travelling public.
Opening off the northwest corner of
the main waiting room is the mems
smoking room, large and comforta-
bly, arranged retreat for those ad-
dicted to the weed. This room will have
panelled wainscotting seven and half
feet from the floor and around the en-
tire room. A marble stairway to the
balcony extending around the entire
main waiting room, on the second floor,
leads from the mems smoking apart
ment.
Adjoining the smoking room will be
a barber shop, sufficiently large for
three chairs, and comfortable lavato-
ries, all fitted up in the most modern
and approved style. In the center of
the north end of the main room is a
corridor, leading north to the spacious
restaurant. Light and airy this room
will be finished in panelled wainscot-
ting and lastly decorated. The kitchen
adJoins the restaurant to the north, and
back of this are two private apart
nents, ore to be used as a mail room,
he other for the use of the Pullman car
The commissary depart
nent, located in the basement of the
north wing, has connection with the
main kitchen.
At the south end OF the main waiting
room Is located an unusually large
sized baggage room. and at the extreme
south Of the building in the south wing,
s storage and Office room for the ex-
press companies operating over the
Denver &Rio Grande and the Western
Pacific roads The baggage and ex-
press rooms are practically completed,
with the exception of the decorative
which will soon be installed.
Roll doors connect with the outside,
md every possible convenience for the
prompt handling Of express and bag
gage have been planned.
Marble tile floor Is laid through the
new depot, with the exception of the
'ailroad offices on the second floors of
both the north and south wings. which
viii be of maple. The main waiting
,oom contains a vast quantity of mar
Die. which material has been used most
throughout the entire
structure. The cornices of the balcony
ire of artistically designed plaster.
Floor of Marble Tile.
This second-floor balcony is sixteen
eet above the main floor and extends
around the entire room. with a width of
sixteen feet. The flooring is of marble
lie. and there will be an iron rail, with
wooden pedestals, to act as a safe
guard against precipitation to the floor
below.
Opening from the balcony, into the
forth wing, entrance is had into a por-
ion of the general offices of the COM
1any. There are thirteen office rooms
md lavatory IN the north wing. and
ourteen Office rooms in the south wing,
III of which are completed, with the ex-
,eption Of the maple flooring. The
'ooms are unusually well lighted, plate
glass, by the way, being used entirely
the new depot.
The building will be heated from a
,ower plant located about 400 feet
'outh of the depot, facing on Fourth
South street, and which is connected
With the main structure by a tunnel,
'ayTying pipes. electric wires, etc. This
building is OF Kansas brick. and has
tack 100 feet high. A battery of two
50-horsepower boilers is being in
stalled, and It is hoped to turn on heat
n the new depot some day next week |
Robert Gordon of Chicago has the con-
ract for the heating.
The exterior OF the new station is |
attractive. At the foun-
Iation is five feet Of marble, terra |
otta 10 the second floor and New Jer-
ey brick with terra Gotta TRIMMINGS |
@ the roof. The cornices are Of solid /
Upper and the roofing of Kansas thing. |
over the front entrance is 8 terra Gotta /
pread eagle. and below will be in
tailed a large clock. Taken in all, the |
ew structure may be described as a /
most artistic and pretentious building, |
nd one which should add considerably |
o the prestige now enjoyed In Salt /
AXE by the two Gould systems.
The work of erecting the train shed |
n the west side of the depot has been
tarted. The new tracks leading to the
tation are in place, and beyond a 1T
Ie grading and surfacing are ready for
be receiving OF trains.
The steel work was erected by the
'oelke-R Richards company of Chicago,
he terra Gotta work was done by the
hicago Terra Gotta company, George
urrey Of Salt Lake constructed the
iasonry and brickwork, John A. b.
mo OF Chicago executed the plaster
lg and interior finishing. while the