The Cordova daily times., 1916-06-10
RAILWAYS SPEND HUGE SUMS IN
 CHICAGO

$66,0O0,000 will have been expended by several of the great railroads oper- ating fin the Chicago district when the new freight and passenger terminals now under construction are completed. The freight terminal will be finished in about six more months, but 1t will take nearly three years to complete the passenger terminal.
 The freight terminal will embrace laying of trackage on a stretch cover ing twelve city blocks, from the Chi cago river south to Twelfth street. The plans for the terminal were so ar. ranged as to give a miXimum speed and convenience of handling freight with a minimum of ground space ne- cessary for the buildings involved. The work is being done by the Penn sylyania lines, west, and will cost for land acquired, building material and labor approximately $16.O00,OO0, and the finished work will be one of the greatest accomplishment of it's kind in the history of modern railroads.
 The main aim of the builders was a terminal that would be so arranged as to eliminate street congestion in handling traffic and would make speedy and easy the handling of the enormous and steadily growing freight business of Chicago. This result will te accomplished by close grouping of. the several parts of the terminal struc- ture and by placing the railroad tracks below the street level, with the freight house just above the tracks, at street level and with a storage warehouse above the freight house. The idea of placing the component parts of the. terminal above one another was to save ground space and to make the handling of incoming and outgoing freight easy by system of powerful modern type electric elevators.
 Adjoining the freight house, and all under cover, will be eighteen tracks, which will accommodate 400 freight cars. Inclosed driveways will protect freight and freight handlers in all sorts of weather.
 One thousand men have been work ing for about ten months, some laying the heavy piling and concrete founda- tions, and some putting up the struc- tural steel framework of the building. About 9 per cent of the structural steel work remains to be finished This will be in about six months, and the total cost of labor, by that time, will, it is estimated, amount of about $1,5OO,OOO.
 The steel, brick, concrete. piling and terra cotta that will go into the build ings will cost about $2.5oO,OO0.
 The structures will occupy ground space of 450 by 750 feet, between Polk street on the north and Taylor street on the south, between the Chicago river and what was once Stewart ave nue. Acquisition of the ground thus used cost the railroad company $12,- 900, ,00O.
 The union passenger terminal, on which preparatory work has begun, and which will be completed in about three years, will cost about $50 ,000,- 900, and will be the finest railway pas senger station in the world, it's pro- jectors say. It will be built and oc- cupied by the Chicago, Milwaukee % i St. Paul the Pennsylvania and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy roads, | the Pennsylvania being represented by two branches. the Panhandle" and the Fort Wayne.
 The station will be composed ir- tually of two buildings, with common facilities of egress and ingress. A 1 main building will be west of Canal street, and a concourse, between twot sets of tracks, will be east of Canal street. Each of the two buildings will be surrounded by four streets, thus giving eight points of exit and en- trance to passengers and making ae' cess to trains quick and convenient. 1 Train sheds will extend from Madison street south to Harrison street.
 The architectural feature of the main building will be waiting room 100 by 300 feet and 120 feet high. The building will occupy a ground space