The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-06

surface and containing the grand wait
Ing room, wherein are located the tick
ct offices, baggage checking windows,
telephones and telegraph offices and
other adjuncts, arranged so convenient
ly that no retracing Of steps is neces-
sary. On the west, adjoining the gen.
eral waiting room, are two subsidiary
waiting rooms, each So by 100 feet, one
for men and one for women. Each of
these opens into retiring rooms.
The main baggage room, with $50
feet frontage, is on the same level.
This large frontage is for the transfer
wagons. 1t Is directly beneath the ar
cade and the restaurant spares on the
level above. Baggage is taken in and
brought out through special subway.
Motor trucks and elevators deliver
trunks to the tracks below. On this
level motor cabs will be stationed.
The concourse, connecting by wide
thoroughfare with the main waiting
| room, Is a covered assembling place
200 feet wide and extending tho entire
width of the station anu out Aalcer the
adjoining streets The Nurse. is
the vestibule to the tracks oI the third
and lowest level Stairs descend to
| each Of the train platforms There are
also direct approaches TO The concourse
from the two side streets. Between
the main concourse and he tracks is
the exit concourse. to oe used for
egress purposes only. This is eighteen
feet above the track level, with stair
ways and elevator conveniences. Stair
cases and gradual inclines lead direct
~ 10 the side streets
Into the north side Of the station.
extending along Thirty third street,
viii run trains from all points on Long
Island by way OF the East river tun-
''.ols. This traffic can be handled indie
pendently of the general through traf-
f1c and the local traffic from the west
ern approach. The train platforms are
about thirty-six feet below street. level.
Terminal Area Twenty eight Acres.
To give some idea as to the magni-
tude OF the station and its adjoining
area of track approaches 1t may be
stated that twenty-eight acres OF land
! sre included in the scheme. the station
walls themselves inclosing LIGHT acres.
| The first stone of the masonry work
on the building was laid June Is, 1908,
the task being completed July 81, 1909.
The exterior walls. nearly half a mile
altogether. required 100000 cubic feet
OF pink granite. Inside the concourse
| $4,000 cubic feet OF stone were used.
This total Of $4,000 cubic feet of gran
lite required LAO freight cars to trans
| port 1t from Milford, Mass. where 1t
was guarded. In the construction Of
| the building were used $1,000 tons OF
steel. Fifteen million bricks were set
in place. The Roman Doric style of
architecture was employed. The sta
ton covers the entire area bounded by
! Seventh and Eighth avenues and Thir-
ty-irst and Thirty-third streets The
| building is OF the dimensions of a
great exposition palace. being 7S4 by
40 feet The structure Is described as
really a monumental bridge over the
| tracks. with entrances on four sides"
Colonnsdes on Each Side.
The Seventh avenue facade. cor,bos-
ed principally Of q Roman Do-ic colon
made. was conceived especially to ex-
press In the largest possible fashion a
monumental gateway. It has been COM
pared to the Brandenburg gate In Ber-
lin, through which passes so much Of
the traffic of the 0Gxnan capstal.
though the New York gateway is much
larger. The main body OF the building
rssscf,ss seventy-six fest above street
sevcl. There are colonnRces along the
Eighth avenue and the Thirty-first ana
Thirty-third street facades similar -