The San Francisco call., 1910-06-25

dock property or other shipping facili-
ties
A firm of Chicago architects is draw
ing the plans for the new station.
representatives of this firm have lately
been in this city studying the ground
for the purpose of shaping the build
ings and approaches to conform with
the conditions found here. The archi-
tects surveyed the locality at Sixteenth
street, Oakland, where the railroad
company is going to erect a 100000
station.
The selection of the corner of Mar
ket and East streets for the San Fran
cisco terminal will fit in well with the
use of the depot for the transfer of
passengers on the Northwestern Pa
cifc. This line. which is being ex-
tended northward to Eureka, will be
continued from there on to Oregon and
will eventually form north and south
trunk line. The connecting ferry line
now brings it to the foot of Market
street.
CONVENIENT LOCATION
The new terminal will be a convent
ence TO the people of San Francisco in
many ways. It will do away with the
present Third and Townsend street
station and land all passengers at a
point where they can easily take cars
for any part of the city or take the
ferries for the transbay cities
By the time the terminal is COM
pleted 1t is believed that all transcon-
tinental passenger trains from the east
via Ogden will be brought over the
Dusnbarton bridge across the southern
end of San Francisco bay and landed
directly in this city. All trains coming
in from the San Joaquin valley will
likewise take the same route. The
building of the new station will in
fact, mark the end of the ferry of
through passengers across the bay.
There is much discussion as to
whether the trains will be brought
into the terminal on overhead tracks
or in cut, with the intersecting
streets bridged over. It is believed
that operations will be begun within a
few months to clean the ground and
lay foundations for the terminal sta
tion and the railroad company's office
building, which will probably be in
conjunction with the depot.
The company's five year lease of the
Flood building, which was made just
after the fire, expires next year. There
has been an impression that by that
time the company would have some
kind of building of its own in which
10 cOQQOcL It's business.
Great interest and curiosity is now
aroused about what kind of structure
the new terminal will be. 1t is be-
lieved that it will probably follow the
outlines of some of the model railroad
terminals that have been erected in
eastern cities in the last few years.
MODEL DEPOT BUILDINGS
The Chicago and Northwestern rail
ways new station in Chicago is fine
type of depot architecture. The main
building is three stories in height, with
classic colonnade in front. Back of
the main building is the train shed.
The St Louis union station is one OF
the best types of railroad terminals in
the United States. All railroads enter
ing ST Louis use this mammoth ter
mina1. It is an ornament to the city
and a source of pride to all residents OF
St Louis.
The new Pennsylvania railroad sta
ton in New York is one of the wonders
railroad company has spent S120, 900 100
to bring it's tracks from the Jersey
shore into the heart of New York city.
OF this sum $15,000,000 represents
the cost of construction of the terminal
proper and the ground on which il
stands. The rest was the cost of bor-
ing twin tubes 81 feet under the Hud-
son river buying right of way through
one of the most congested tenement
districts of the city and digging q
broad trench so feet deep, most of the
way through the solid rock which
forms the backbone of Manhattan ISL
and
From the station on Eighth avenue
the tracks are extended eastward in
a subway under the city and beneath
East river to a connection with the
Long Island railroad, and by He'll gate
bridge TO the tracks of the New York
New Haven and Hartford railroad