The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-12
Handsome New Structure
in Use Today for the
First Time
COMPLETE IN ALL
ITS APPOINTMENTS
Credit to Everybody Concerned and
Ample to Care for Future Needs =
Feature of Expensive Railroad Devel-
opments in Brattleboro.

After a wait of nearly three months
from the time the new union passenger
station was accepted by the Central
Vermont and Boston & Maine railroads.
the station was opened this morning at
10 o'clock to the public for imm2di-
ate use. No public inspection or dedi-
catorv exercises marked the opening
The doors were unlocked and such of
the public as had occasion to use the
station and those who cared to make
an early inspection passed in and com
mented favorably upon the interior of
the building, the exterior of which has
long since met with approval generally.
The station and platforms with neces-
sary track changes has cost about $75,-
600
1t was fairly busy time in the sta
tion this morning, for not until after
the Z clock train had pulled out was
the exodus from the old station across
the tracks to the new one begun. While
there was no furniture to move for all
in the new structure is being used for
the first time, 1t was some job to move
several thousand tickets and place them
correctly In a new style case to shift
baggage and checks and records and
place them in new and strange sur
roundings where they can be instantly
found; to transfer express and all of
the necessary accessories for transact
ing express business from the old,
cramped quarters to the new commo-
dious rooms. Besides that, more ques-
tions were asked-necessarv and friv-
! oious-than metropolitan inquiry bu-
reau Of long experience could answer
offhand
Altogether in spite of the lack of
band and banners, without pomp and
ceremony or anything but work as the
accompaniment to the opening of the
station. the first move for which was
inaugurated in 1903 and the first plans
for which were drawn six years later
in connection with the plan for abol-
ishing the grade crossing, the accepted
| privilege of abandoning the old build
ing was highly successful. Not only
| did the employees find their places. but
| they had had opportunity to familiarize
| themselves with the new quarters sufi-
! ciently to help patrons find theirs. As
a matter of fact there is nothing com
! plex about the station or its arrange
ments, So far as the main floor is con-
! cerned, which is the only one patrons
| have to concern themselves about, it is
as simple as a well planned house.
| The new structure is one feature of
| railroad developments III Brattleboro
in the past few years which have cost
| $2,000.000 or more and which have
changed the topography of that part
of the town lying near the railroad
yard, including the blasting out of the
| old Vernon street and the removal of
the Old Brattleboro House property
The developments, including the new
| Boston & Maine line to South Vernon,
are the outcome of a long railroad con-
troversy which was fought out in
| private offices and legislative halls.
The situation at one time seemed hope
less. but it was saved from complete
wreck by Attorney Clarke C. Fits of
Brattleboro. representing the town
raiiroad committee, and since Attor-
ney Robert c. Bacon of Brattleboro
became member and chairman of the
Vermont public service commission he
| has had an important part in guiding
the station project to a successful is
| sue. The town of Brattlebero showed
! the sincerity of its desire for a new