Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-06
CENTRAL DEPOT
FOR NEWARK
NOW ASSURED
President Besler, of r. r.
Company, Says Architects
! Have Prepared Plans.
PROJECT ALSO INVOLVES
RETRACKING AND GRADING
Railroad Officials Declare That
Structure Will Be Hand
some One.

Newark is to have a new Central
Railroad depot within the near fu-
lure. according to a statement issued
today by W. c. Besler, president of
the Central Railroad Company at the
offices of the company in New York
city
Plans for the building have been
submitted to the company, but they
have not yet been approved, as there
are to be some changes made in the
detail. President Resler declared
that as soon as the architects and
engineers have completed their task,
Then announcement will be made as
to when the work will be inaug-
urated.
F. I. Dickerson, assistant to Pres.
ident Besler, has much of the detail
of the work in charge While not
ready yet to divulge the plans he
asserts that the railroad officials pro-
posed to give Newark a station of
which the city can be justly proud.
Just when the construction will be
begun is something which cannot be
determined yet, 1t was said that the
project involves a system of martial
retracking and many grading and
engineering problems will have to be
solved before the actual construction
Is begun
The question of a new station has
been agitated for a long time the
claim being made that the structure
has been outdistanced by all its COM
petitors in the matter of modernized
accommodations. The Board of
Health has made the station an OBJ
ject for censure for many years be-
c use of the Objectionable features.
Tile intention on the part of the
Central Railroad to erect a new Broad
street station is in line with the plans
which have been adopted by the City
Plan Commission. In connection with
the announcement made by the Cen
trail Railroad today Harland Barthol-
omew. secretary of the City Plan
Commission, gave out the following
statement:
THE announcement of proposed
new station on Broad street to be
erected by the Central Railroad Com
pany of New Jersey should be well
coined by Newarkers, for the present
structure has never become the own
ers nor the city. Railroad stations
are the gateways to cities and should
he in keeping with the character of
the municipality. Strangers judge
oftentimes, by first impressions. and
il is as much to the city's interest as
that of the railroad company that the
terminal as well as the approaches
thereto should he in conformity with
the position which that city holds
among others of its kind.
Cross Town Traffic Needs Developing.
I'm working out rearranging of the
downtown thoroughfare system the
City Plan Commission has always felt
that Lafayette and William streets
should be developed into cross town
thoroughfares to provide for the re-
lief of Market street on the south.
To accomplish this would necessitate
the widening Of Lafayette street from
Broad street to Mulberry street.
"A plan was devised in this connec-
tlon upon which the proposed new
Central Railroad station was shown.
with the thought in mind that when
the time for making improvements
at this point came the city could well
cooperate with the Central Railroad.
for by so doing it would be possible
to create eonsidera Bile street space on
Lafayette street for the accommoda-
ton of all forms of vehicles which
would naturally use the new station
Furthermore, accomplishment of the
Improvement would permit a direct
service to the railroad station from
the east and west by the new trolley
line which could be built.
THAT the Central Railroad Conf
pany has now resolved to proceed
with it's new station in the near future
is very desirable step in the right di-
VI ION, and from the fact that in New
= .ork in Washington. in Detroit and
ins Cleveland, as well as in smaller
municipalities the railroads and the
municipalities cooperate in makins
improvements which are mutually
beneficial, it is greatly to be hoped
that conditions will soon warrant the
citv's serious consideration of the
widening of Lafayette street. Tha
CITY Plan Commission is absolutely
convinced of the reasonableness and
the eventual benefit of such an under
taking.