The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
seventy-Five Thousand People Filter
Through Pennsylvania Station
in New York Every
Day.
FROM EVERY COUNTRY
international Congress OF Chemists
Almost cIossed the Machinery
When 1t Passed
Through. +.
UNITED Press Special service.l

NEW. YORK, Sept. 16.-Every day
an average of $4,000 people are fit
cred through the Pennsylvania rail-
road station at Thirty-third street and
Sixth Avenue. the biggest passenger
terminal in the United States.
All the emotions and all the differ
emit varieties of humanity pass in a
Kaleidoscope panorama from the
yawning train sheds to the streets. 1t
is continuous melting pot of ma
lions, place where the paths of all
meet and diverge.
Immigrants, fresh from the steerage
decks of the Atlantic liners, troop
bewildered through the depot's mag
nificent archways, rubbing shoulders
with suburban millionaires, hurrying
commuters and the eager sight-seers.
Foreign tongues and the accents OF
the south, east and west arise In a
mighty babel, almost drowning out
the stentorian tones of the train call
ers.
The depot, of solid granite, inside
and out, walls and ceilings, is fit
ting symbol of the metropolis. Built
at cost of s12o,OO0,O0o including its
tunnels, after ten years OF labor, It
stands near the Hudson river. under
which its trains are hurled. Its most
notable characteristic is its vastness.
The white travatine marble walls rise
-
feet Great granite pillars mark the
entrance to it's different corridors and
floors.
Well or i'll, one does not have to
leave the depot to be cared for There
| is perfectly equipped hospital on
the ground floor, with two surgeons
in constant attendance. Here on var
ious occasions future young Ameri
cans have seen the first light of day
Across the corridor from one anoth
er, at the entrance to the Arcade, g
| sort Of high class midway effect, with
up to date stores of all sorts lining
it, are restaurant and cafe. The
main difference between the two ii
/ in financial altitude. In the restau
rant, one eats, in the cafe one dimes
with the service of Broadway at hand
! The Arcade stretches for half {
! block, and houses metropolitan shops
of all hues even to a beauty parlor
/ where "milady'' may secure the nee
essary couture and manicure. Their,
are drug stores, haberdashery an,
clothing shops, an art store and
florist. The Arcade was planned t
prevent stores from crowding abou
the front of the depot.
Downstairs off the train sheds, i
the immigrants waiting room. Her
the new Americans are held until on
of the roads immigrant officers d
reefs them to their destinations Or
casionaliy the holder ones essay
visit to the main floor. and all unde
tered by its magnificence, calmly ca
lunch on the benches tossing banan
and orange peels on the polishe
floors.
Everything about the place is ru
: with a rockribbed system, but occ'
sionally the humanity that fits in an
out, forming the daily grist, will clio
the machinery for while. and th
. passing of the International Congress
S Of Chemists. was nearly one of then
l. There were about 1000 of them goin
J, from New York to Washington to a
n tend meeting. They came from a
i ends of the earth, and all had jul
y arrived in New York within the wee
: Sturdy Japanese in America
d clothes and flat heeled shoes, Dor
k Russians with deep set eyes ar
Il square clipped boards, nervous cha
: tering Frenchmen and Bohemian
s solid Teutons, with their wives ar
!; daughters, and Englishmen with pc
y derous mustaches and boards, clatte
Z ed up the Washington train entranc