Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-08
BLOOMFIELD AND
RAILROAD READY
TO SIGN CONTRACT
Share In Cost for Inn
provements on L~ackawanna
Will Be $l8,924.

Many Bloomfield citizens today went
to the office Of Town Engineer Baech-
lin, wher they viewed the plans speci-
ncations and photographs. of h pro-
posed improvements on b Bloomfield
branch of the L~ackawanna Railroad,
which is to cost $685. 24. All grade
crossings are to be eliminated The
total cost to the town will be $1S,924.
and to the railroad company $7b0.0Oo.
The property damage in Watsessing
will be borne equally by h town and
company. Two stations will be erected,
the tracks will be depressed through
the Watsessing section of Bloomfield
and elevated over Glenwood avenue and
at Washington street In the town
proper.
Mechanic street will be opened from
Glenwood avenue to Washington street.
giving two more entrances to the wait
ing-room on the ~east-bound track.
Property benefited will be assessed.
A description of the stations follows:
The walls of the station at Glenwood
avenue, as we'll as at Watsessing, will
either be built of monolithic or rein
forced concrete, or the structures may
be built of hollow tile with plaster fin
ish, where exposed to view on exterior.
or may be veneered with either tapes
try, Harvard or other front brick, and
a r C h | t ecturally embellished with
washed concrete or stone trimmings;
| all as may be determined by the rail-
road company. The subway walls are
to be built of concrete n surface
finished by one of the foregoing
! methods.
-.
The roofs of the buildings and plat
form canopies will be either of wood.
steel or reinforced concrete construc-
ton, and will be covered with terra
Gotta tile of pattern and color to be
| selected by the company. All platforms
at track level and all sidewalks at
street level will be built of concrete.
All staircases will be built @. either
concrete or with castiron treads. TIL
peculiar nature of the site for the
Glenwood avenue station and the fact
that the roadbed is to be elevated
makes 1t necessary to divide the facili-
ties; placing the main ,waiting-room
and toilets on the e~ast-bound track and
the baggage-room on the west-bound
track, and connecting h two by means
of a subway under the tracks.
M building on the eastbound track
will be one-story high and will be 22x7S
feet and 10 feet high, and in connection
Herewith will be a covered platform of
ample width and 265 feet long,
The building on the west-bound track
will be 20x39 feet, one-story high, n
it will contain the baggage-room and a
small waiting-room, with staircase
leading UP to street level and in con-
nection Herewith will be "a covered
platform 1856 feet long.
There will also be an arched port
cochere over a terraced driveway,
which is designed to come directly over
the main entrance to the station n
subway, which entrance Will be pro-
tected by a handsome Marquise.
The passenger station at Watsessing
will be shaped k a letter T. That
portion of the building forming the
stem of the letter will be built over
the tracks and will be o%ne-story high.
That portion forming the other part of
the letter will be two stories high, nav
ing one-story at track level n one
at street level. At the latter level the
station will contain a waiting-room
25x32 feet, ticket office, toilet rooms.
lobby, baggage-room, elevate and
newsstand, and will have wide stair
cases of easy rise, with landings about
midway leading down to track level
platforms. The latter will be approx
mately 300 feet long IN each side of the
track and covered with c%anopies.
Electricity will be used for lighting
purposes, and the stations will be heat
ed by steam.
The work Is to be commenced within
80 days after h signing of the con-
tract and will be completed within a
year.