Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-06-15
s66, 100000 FOR NEW RAILROAD
 TERMINALS IN HEART 0F CHICAGO
Associated Pressl

DCCll ChpSlNSN the great railroads operating in the Chicago district when the new freight and paSsen- ger terminals now under construction are completed.
 The freight terminal will be finished in about six more months but it 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 Chlca' 20 river south to Twelfth street. The nlans for the terminal were so arrang- ed as to give a maximum speed ana convenience of handling freight with a minimum of ground space necessary for the buildings involved. The work is being done by the Pennsylvania lines. West. and will cost, for land acquired, building material and labor, approximately $16,O0O,0O0 and the fin ished work will be one of the greatest accomplishments of its kind in the history of moedrn railroads.
 The main aim of the builders was a terminal that would be so arranged as to eliminate street congestion in handling freight traffic and would make speedy and easy the handling of the enormous and steadily growing passenger and freight business of Chl- gaco. This result will be accomplish ed by close grouping of the several parts of the terminal structure ana b! placing the railroad tracks below the street level, with the freight mouse just above the tracks, at street lVei' and with a storage warehouse aDoVe the freight house. The idea ot placing tho comnonent parts of the termlnai above one another was to save ground snace and to make the handling or incoming and outgoing freight easy Dy a system of powerful, modern-type electric elevators.
 Adjoining the freight house, ana all under cover, will be eighteens tracks which will accommodate 400 frelgh 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 laVl ing for about ten months, some laying the heavy piling and concrete founda- tions. and some putting up the struc- tural framework of the buildings.
 About 25 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 to about s1,5OO,OOO.
 The steel, brick, concrete, piling and terra cotta that will go into the buildings will cost about $2,500,O0O.
 The structures will occupy ground space of 45O by 75O feet between Polk street on the north, and Taylor street on the south, between the Chicago river and what was once Stewart avenue. Acquisition of the ground thus used cost the railroad company $12.O0O.0OO
 The union passenger terminal, on which preparatory work has begun and which will be completed in about three years, will cost about $5O,O0O,OOC and will be the finest railway passen ger station in the world, its projectors say. It will be built and occupied by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul the Pennsylvania, and the Chicago Burlington and Quincy roads, the Pennsylvania being represented by two branches, the Panhandle" ana the Fort Wayne.
 The station will be composed virtu ally of two buildings, with common facilities of egress and ingress. main building will be west of Cana street and a concourse, between twC sets of tracks, will be east of Cana street Each of the two buildings vii be surrounded by four streets, thu' giving eight points of exit and en trance to passengers and making ac cess to trains quick and convenient Train sheds will extend from Madi son street, south to Harrison street.
 The architectural feature of tn, main building will be a waiting room 100 by 300 feet and 120 feet high. Tn, building will occupy a ground spac' of 325 by $50 feet The train shed will be of the latest coyered-in typ and will eliminate columns in tn center of the platforms.