Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-23

tive routes.
For cars that will enter the ter
minal from Mulberry street Two
| tracks will be laid across the side
walk on the west side of that thor
oughfare. These will ascend the pro-
posed elevated approach, and spread
to five tracks crossing Pine street,
and to six tracks on the second floor
of the terminal building Two of
these will DE unloading tracks and
the other four will be loading tracks,
the loops for this layout being on the
Park place end of the building The
unloading tracks will have separate
platforms, each about 200 feet long,
and the loading platforms, also sepa
rated, will range from 100 to 240 feet
| in length. Like the sub-surface plat
| forms these overhead platforms will
! have Independent stairways for in
coming and outgoing traffic, so as to
avoid confusion. The stairways will
lead from and to the concourse on
the ground floor, the elevation being
only about twelve feet.
1.-THE plans for the concourse are
as near ideal as the experience of
other companies and careful study
of the needs of the proposed terminal
can make them About $4,000 square
feet will be given over for the con-
course. The main entrances and
exits will be on the Park place level
at the northerly end of the building.
Ticket booths and ticket-choppers will
| be provided as at all terminal sta
tons, and illustrated signs will desig-
nate the stairways leading up or
| down to the various lines of cars.
There will be plenty of seats, a mod
ern retiring room for women, a smok-
ing room for men, parcels and in
| formation booth, telephone and tela1
graph booths, soda fountain, news
stand, bootblacks stand, station mas
| ter's and starters offices, and such
other conveniences as the operation of
a large terminal calls for. 1t may
be that space will be provided for a
few retail shops.
Public Service Offices.
/ Adjoining the concourse will be
the showrooms and commercial Of
fees of the Public Service Gas Com
pany and Public Service Electric
Company These will occupy about
900 square feet of space and will
take the place of the quarters now
provided on the ground floor of
Broad and Bank streets. An exit
from the concourse and one from
the siowrooms probably will be pro-
vided in the extension to North
Canal street and the strip extend
ing to West Park street will be used
| for the heating plant and such APP
paratus as will be necessary to oper-
ate the elevators, the vacuum clean
| ing outfit and other mechanical
needs of the proposed office build-
| ing.
ITO properly operate the terminal
| to its maximum capacity additional
trackage facilities in the city will
be required. In planning these our
engineers have sought to keep the
cars on their present routes as near
| ly as possible, particularly with ref
erence to the two. main arteries of
traffic, Broad and Market streets.
There is no intention of unduly cur
| failing traffic on these two thorough
fares. On the contrary, the service
| will be much improved, but a large
number OF cars will be diverted
from the intersection of Broad and
Market streets, where conditions are
well-nigh intolerable. 1t is proposed
to ask for permission to lay double
tracks on Park place, from North
Canal to Fulton street, thus skirtins
two sides of Military Park, and pro-
viding direct service from the north
and the south to both the Pennsyl-
vania high-speed line to New York
and the new Public Service termi-
nal. 1t is also proposed to ask for
double tracks in Centre street, from
| Park place to Mulberry street; a
double track curve at Mulberry and
Market streets; double tracks in La
| fayette street, from Broad street to
Mulberry street, and double tracks
IN Warren street and High street,
from Washington street to Spring
| field avenue. The object of the Cen
ire street tracks is to enable cars
to be operated via Park place, Cen
| tire and Mulberry streets, from the
north into the terminal from the
Mulberry street end. The curves at
Mulberry street are needed for cars
to and from the easterly section of
the city, and the Lafayette street
extension will admit of the opera
ton of suburban and interurban
cars from the south to and from the
terminal without crossing Broad and
1 Market streets. The tracks on War