Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-04
PUBLIC INSPECTION Of
TERMINAL TODAY
Magnificent New Structure Contains Every Feature
Needed for Efficiency and Comfort-Trans
Start Out Monday.

, FINISHING touches, were being put on
Broad Street Station. of the Richmond.
fredericksburg and Potomac and Allan
tic Coast Line Railroads, yesterday
afternoon in anticipation OF the public
reception to-day and the beginning of
business Monday.
The people of Richmond are invited
to inspect the building and grounds
this afternoon and evening from to
o'clock
Running of trains out of the station
Will start at 1910 o'clock Monday after
noon when tho Richmond. Fredericks-
burg and Potomac train for Washington
departs.
WILLIAM Ii. WHITE Is
PRESIDENT OF TERMINAL
For some years the question OF build
ing the new station was under con-
sideration. The operation OF trains
through the heart Of the city. over the
Connection Company's tracks, along the
heavy grade on Belvidere Street 10
was beset with difficulties and danger
Accordingly. the Richmond Terminal
iaiiway COMPANY was chartered. In
purchased the property known "c e'i as thy
old Fair Grounds" and contracted for
a modern station building and track
layout. -
The officers and directors of the Rich
mond Terminal Railway Company are:
President. William II. White Rich
mond; vicc-presidcnt: j. X. Kcnly, Will
Norman Call: general counsel. Eppa
Carrick.
Directors-H. Walters. New York: !
Il. kenly. Wilmington. y. c.; Frederick
w. Scott. J. Taylor Ellyson, Eppa Hun
ton. Jr.. William r. White and Norman
Call, Richmond
RELIEVE Ideal. TERMINAL
HAS BEEN ACHIEVED
II is generally conceded that every
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conception OF a railway terminal has
been achieved by the terminal manage
mont.
Inc new station will go into service
appointed by Director General McAdoo
as terminal manager. The corporate
az well as the Federal Offices Of the
Terminal Company and the RichnonI
fredericksburg and Potomac railroad
Company Will be located In the new
building. The railroad administration
mas announced that all trains Of the
rredcricksburS and Potomac now using
Eyrd street station. and all Richmond.
rreder;cksbnrg and Potomac trains
terminal. and the Two old stations will
ba abandoned
ONE Of MOST COMPLETE
TERMINALS ~ COUNTRY
me station is one of the most. II not
me most. convenient and unique ter
T.
rangement is such that all the objec-
tons TO the stub-end station are
avoided. and all the convenienccs and
economies of the through runninr sta
ton secured. BY means of tho ..Ioon..
arrangement all trains, on leaving the
main line of the Richmond, Fredericks-
ourg ana Potomac just south Of BouIe-
ward Bridge, approach the station by
easy curves. and, after discharginE and
loading on station tracks l,20J feet in
IehSth on tangent. move through in an
an
north, regain the main line Of the Rich
nond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
with the minimum of handling
Al switches within the terminal
i'mltS except in coach yard, are oner-
ated ana signaled by electro
installation. controlled from central
tower Platforms twenty-five feet wide
a,piy protected with wide canopies. are
PROVIDED Tor the seven through station
tracks and one parking track a com
modious express building. with neccs
sary rack and sheltered platform, is
provided. as we'll as detac hed boiler
plant for heat supply for the station
hni!dinE and parked cars
FIREPROOF STRUCTURE
OF STEEL AND CONCRETE
me building is freproof struc-
lure or steel and concrete, with eX-
terror walls OF Indiana travertin linz
stone. The face of the buildinr is 90
ieet north of the street line pern,it
ing a broad plaza with sweeping
curves and grass plots. The structure is
40 feet long. lis feet inches wId..
and three stories high on the plaz,
front Facing the interior courts, an
aoditlonal story is obtained in the east
anu west wings. These three upper
noors are used for railroad business Of
The entire main floor is given over
TO- me uses Of the travelling public. The
waiting-r room for white people. with
IT'S lofty domed ceiling extending IN
entirely through the building, occupies