The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-11-04
NEW RAILROAD STATION
OPENED ON MONDAY
Trains Use Elevation to Permit.
Grading Though Station Is
Not Yet Completed.

Morristown's new railroad station
was put into use on Monday,
Though far from completed 1t is suf-
| ficiently well along to enable "a part,
at least, to be put in service SO
that the temporary tracks and tenn
porary station may be cleared away
and the approaches to the eastbound
station completed. The last trains
| to use the temporary station were
the eleven forty-three eastbound and
the eleven-fifty westbound. With
/ the departure of these trains the
| tracks over the elevation and the
J Morris street bridge and through the
new station were cut in.
The twelve-forty train to New York
was the first TO leave the new sta
tion. 1t was in charge of South Or
ange crew, Conductor harry Kitchen
and Engineer Cassidy. To Morris
town crew fell the honor of bringing
the first train from New York to the
new station. 1t was the twelve fifty
two train. The crew included Con
ductor Abram Ayers, Brakemen w. C
Doyle, Flagman George Hopkins, Bag
gage Master James Wells, Engineer
Andrew Smith and Fireman Nathan
Marcus.
At once the work of clearing away
the temporary tracks across the site
/, of the new street parallel with the
/ freight house was undertaken ano
that street finished as soon as pos
sible. The temporary tracks will re
main across Morris street for three
or four days for the use of work
trains carrying earth for the fill III
front of the new station. A TEEN
porary walk has been constructed froT
Morris street parallel with the freigh
house to the extreme westerly enc
of the eastbound platform and the
easterly end is reached by the
stairway from Morris street
temporary ticket office has beer
bult in the new baggage room ant
the subway under the tracks is com
pleted so that it can be used t.
| reach the westbound platform ant
shelter house.
The plaza in front of the west
bound shelter house Is we'll along to
| wards completion. The shelter hous
is about completed and will be put II
use. The toilets will not be in ser
vice for a day or two after the open
ing for a section of sewer is to b.
laid and cannot be done until the ten
) por'ary tracks are out of the way.
: The building for the United State
! Express company is completed ex
> cept for the tile that goes over thu
: concrete roof. This building wa
{ put into service Monday and the bag
7 gage is being cared for from i
5 until the baggage room in the mail
: station is ready The express build
t ing is equipped with an electric ele
5 vator for the. handling of goods
There yet remains much to be don
to the main station building incluC
) ing the laying of the terrazzo floor.
I Instead of the iroD safety" tread
the railroad has been using on 1t
concrete stairways in many of is
| stations the stairways of the MOI
T ristown station are equipped with
, cement tread which is faced wit
, adamite, a substance harder tha
, carborundum. These treads were de
vised by Walter Hull, of the railroad
; engineering force. He is a dfaughts
man in the local office of the ell
gineering corps. The treads wer
cast in moulds and then were set o
, the steps with the aid of cement. S
well are the treads liked that tn
, company has ordered the moulder
, of them here to get out 200 more fo
use on the new station at Chatham.
. The town has paid to Joseph Yor
the amount awarded by the col
demnation commissioners for the Ian
needed for the street across tn
Washington hotel property. A stear
! shovel has been set to work excavat
! ing and the earth is being carted t
, the fill in front of the main building