The Glasgow courier., 1916-03-03
NEW FREIGHT
DEPOT ASSURED
Great Northern Will Make Ex-
tensive improvements.
TO REMODEL OLD DEPOT
Present Station Will be Used Ex-
clusively for Passengers
Plans are Now Ready.

nellaOle ln1OrmaClOn was ceCcl:eO
here this week that by next summer
Glasgow would have a new freight
house and the present depot would
be completely remodeled and made
into an exch,sive passenger depot.
This is in line with a communica-
tion received recently by the Com
mercial club from r. Budd, assistant
to the president of the Great North
ern, in which he stated that the local
freight situation at Glasgow had not
been overlooked, but that the rail-
road had plans under consideration
for extended improvements here
which would be carried out during the
coming summer season.
The above report was verified by
definite word that plans were now in
the hands of the master carpenter
for the erection of a new freight
depot and the remodeling of the
present structure.
The new freight depot, according
to present plans, will be 5Ox18O feet
and large enough to handle the enor-
nous amount of freight which goes
through this terminal. The exact To-
cation has not been decided on as
yet, but it will probably go west of
the present depot. Nothing definite
was said about the removal of the
house track, but it will undoubtedly
be taken out and moved down to the
new freight depot.
The present depot will be used ex-
clusively for passenger purposes,
and the part now used for freight
house will be turned into an express
and baggage room. The waiting
rooms will be enlarged and new fix
lures installed throughout.
The announcement that the Great
Northern had decided to make these
improvements comes after a two
year campaign conducted by Secre-
tary Moore of the Commercial club.
He has taken up the matter of better
facilities for this point with the rail-
road officials from every angle and
to Mr.. Moore must go the credit for
securing these new improvements for
the city. Since Mr.. Moore took the
office of secretary of the Commercial
club he has worked with the Great
Northern officials to better conditions
here. and his efforts have been re-
warded when the company has made
improvements that were asked Tor.
Work on the new freight depot
will probably not begin until in May
or June, but it will be completed be-
fore the summer is over.
Few people realize the enormous
amount of freight that is handled
through the local office, but when
it is stated that the present freight
depot is only large enough to ham
die, but a small share of the bust
ness and that most of the freight is
Lnloa,ied out of storage cars, they
can readily see that better facilities
were necessary.
During the past few years the re-
ceipts of the local office of the Great
Northern have increased by leaps and
bounds, and although Handicapped by
lack of space, the work has always
been handled with precision and dis
patch by the local agent, John j.
Tattan. His record in making Glas-
gov one of the best points for the
company along the line is deserving
of credit, and it is as much through
his efforts to boost the business of
the company here that Glasgow was
able to secure the new freight de-
pot and other improvements.