The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-21
MELLEN BACK TO THE FARM
 IN NEW HAVEN
Announces Definite Plans to Erect New Station on Original Site Instead of "Cut''
Passage Over Maze of Tracks to Steamboat Docks at Water Front-To Cost $2,5O0,O0O

New Haven, March 21-That the site of the great new railroad station which this city is to have in the neal future will be in the neighborhood of the farm and the waterfront as first proposed, and not as recently an nounced, over the cut at Chapel street, came as the decisive announcement afternoon. President Mellen, to whom the directors of the road at the recent meeting in New York, unequivocally left the decision in the matter, has again changed his mind from the an- nouncement which he gave out little over week ago and has decided in favor of the original location just west of the farm
 Absolutely definite plans for the complete work of which the station will form the key have been complet- ed by the railroad engineers. These plans call for the location of the sta tion on New Union avenue, the street which runs directly in the rear of the Yellow building, entirely to the west of Meadow street and consequently several hundred feet to the west o1 the present station.
 The stations location will be on a site facing a small triangle formed by New Union avenue, Water street and Carlisle street, and it will rest on that piece of property, one small corner o1 which is at present occupied by the loading shed of the Adams Express Company. Besides being about one city block nearer Howard avenue than at present it will be a short block nearer Columbus avenue.
 The plans for the station will follow the design which has already beer made by Cass Gilbert. The only inn portant modification of the plans as previously formulated consists in the dropping entirely of the plan for 3 subway to go under all the tracks from the station out to the steamboat dock which is to be built at the water front directly in the rear of the sta- tion. In it's place there is to be 8 covered overhead passageway which will go from the tracks where the pas senger trains come in, to the dock ovel all the freight and yard tracks.
 There will be a small space left ir front of the entrance to the station giving a larger approach than the width of a city street would allow Passing through the station the pros pective passenger will go out upon ar elevated platform for his trains There will be absolutely no crossing of tracks and the passenger VIII reacn all but the first one by subway pas sageS under the tracks. There will be six through tracks for passenger trains in front of the station. Back o1 all these will come a bewildering maze of freight and yard tracks stretching almost to the water front Over these will go the overhead passage. Then will come the big covered dock and steams ship shed at which the steamers of the New Haven line will dock in the future instead of at Belle Dock which is to be abandoned.
 The new plans call for an immense amount of freight trackage extending down to Water and Brewery streets on the southeast, and up towards Howard avenue in the other direction Near the water front but at consid- erable distance from the dock will be erected two big freight sheds, one l. 900 feet by 30 and the other 1000 by 50. one for outgoing and the other for incoming freight.
 The site which has now been se- lected will have Carlisle and Portsea streets, the two streets along which the trolley cars west bound and from the west pass, coming almost direct ly into it. In connection with the plans 1t is announced that they show the "location and general layout of the new station as it will be built"