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Show DAILY PAGE TWELVE. CENTRAL STATION. level than the express trains, separating the trauaniuter from the express passenger and affording better facilities for both. The suburban concourse will provide fbr nine trucks. The express concourse will be slightly depressed belowr the street level, and will provide for twenty-tw- o passenger train tracks, two baggage tracks, two mail tracks and eight extracks press tracks, making forty-thre- e in all. with platforms so connected by subway and elevators that baggage, mail and express may be quickly transferred without crossing the tracks. The main entrance to the station is th Fifty-seven- on Forty-secon- street. Its architecIs three massive d tural composition thirty-thre- e arches, each arch being feet wide and sixty high- - Beyond these arches one enters an enormous ticket lobby, 911x300 reet. This ticket lobby On is on I he level with the street. the right of this lobby, and practically a. part thereof, is the outgoing baggage room. After purchasing one's ticket and checking one's baggage, one proceeds to the express train by entering at-on- ue JOURNAL, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1905. but can go directly from the street to the train or from the train to the street all stairby an easy incline, avoiding cases. There Is provided at the exsubpress level a connection with the enway. There i also a splendid trance tend exit to the station by way of an incline from Madison avenue, enabling the cab or foot passengers to approach or leave the station at the west end of the' grand concourse. At the subway level there Is provided a concourse with ample subordinate waiting and retiring rooms. At this level there Is provided a loop nor quickly disiuitchlng the suburban trains, and provision has also been made for a possible connection with the rapid transit system. There has been further provision for pipe galleries in Forty-secon- d w street. Vanderbilt avenue and place, wltb means of easy access thereto without disturbing the public highways. The baggage room adjoins Depew street and Vanderbilt place, Forty-fift- h avenue, with 1,300 feet of street frontage and 47,000 square feet of floor space, sufficient to cure for baggage in rush seasons without the delay in delivery now experienced at all large from the departing passengeis, Mb d avoiding the usual conruston t a station caused by the meeting of Incoming and outgoing passengers. From this concourse one goes to the trains in the train room. The pl( forms are of ample width, avenging from fifteen to eighteen feet wide, whereas the narrowest platform or the present station Is but eight feet wide. and the widest is but twelve feet This liberal width of platforms afford ample facilities for quickly leaving the train and HVOids the usual crowding. The suburban train room has a splendid feature Jfir quickly emptying the trains and avoiding crowding, by having platforms on either side of the train. These platforms are even wider than the express platforms, ranging f t in from seventeen to twenty-nin- e width. The concourse end of all the express platforms have the additional advantage of being free from the handling of bHggage. The exit from the station is a long Vanderbilt avenue, approached by am- stations. It has been the intention In prepar ple staircases. To the north and along is the pirmnlng ing these plans to sacrifice everything Vanderbilt avenue of the traveling baggage, conveniently placed for arriv- to the convenience The company' cab public and to the proper administration ing passengers. of a terminal railway station. stand is on the level or the The architects (Warren & Wetmore, and the express tracks. In the pro- rail-roa- Thu plans fur ihe new lerniln.il In lower .New York ity involve the use or an thus and between Forty-secon- d atreeta, M.otianii iiini Lexington avenuea. together with the The station IMtatofflce and express building, will cover the block between Vanderbilt and Lexington avenuea from Forty-fift- h streets inclusive, to Forty-thir- d and the block front lug on oFrty-sec-on- d street between Vnnderh'lt avenue and Depew place. The buildings will I set hack from street a distuned of about Forty-secon- d forty feel, ami back from Vanderbilt avenue a distance of about seventy feet, so as to afford a generous apth" efproach to the station and give on the fect or 140 feet open space Forty-s-ion- d stuet frontage and 130 feet open spac on the Vanderbilt frontage. The frontage of these buildings will avenue, 621 (ISO feet on Vanderbilt l h street, 4i!a feet on feeet of Forty-li- ft Lexington avenue, 273 feet on korty- STATE of the waiting rooms at the Grand Central station as tt Is at present Through this concourse pass the departing and arriving passengers, but the arriving passengers are absolutely separated NEW YORK'S NEW GRAND area of more than nineteen oily block UTAH De-jie- avoiding the usual confusion. They have provided ample rooms and a grand concourse waiting large to accommodate the largest possible excursion or holiday crowd. The suburban passengers are separated from the express passengers, but with the entrances and exlta so arranged that there is perfect facility for getting from one to the other. Ample space is provided for the incoming crowd, and there Is a waiting vestibule fbr those desiring to meet arsufft-ilent- ly The Reason WhV "uper:or riving passengers. The express concourse and waiting rooms are so situated that suburban passenger can use them if desirable, and these accommodations are so placed that from the standpoint of facility in handling the passengers, either tier of tracks may be used Inter- IHrV-- i J the t lr. the la changeably. The approaches and departures from the station are on the company's own property. To the north of the concourse ana carrying the cornice line of this monumental part of the building, around the entire building, are placed the 0 company's offices, contalng about square feet in area, exclusive of corridors, elevators, etc., with entrances at the two corners of the buildstreet and Park aving at Forty-fift- h enue, and with ample elevator facilities leading to the concourse Itself. These offices are built around a tnugnifli cut jndt-ri- - r FREE-O- ne bri ll., I :'w c cry '0 one l:h PUh,or,,er anJ r Silk gf let.,J aoh .f ttnr.al a, 230,-00- mm-mirs- than.p ,!i:s 1Illr Troy n-- n Laundry V'Lio! Ini, k What two words have I greater meanny than z Light! LET X ' THE Etan Light & Railway Company Furnish you or E.W.WADE, with either both. Mgr. tor Ogta TfiE CRND CFJFAL TaVAiNAL STOIOH Cf BSTTSS-CSE- ? ' "7 M")SCH RIVER PflLRC EDR THE rJE tfn fourth street. 260 feet on Depew- place, d and 100 feet on street. In addition to the public streets, there will be connections by ample private roadways and walks to Madison avenue on the west and Lexington avenue on the east, thus giving the traveling public facilities for entering the d station not only from street on the south, Vanderbilt avenue and Deiiew place, but from Madison avenue on the west and Lexington avenue on the east. The suburban trains will be on a a gallery overlooking the grand concourse and thence to this concourse, which is on a level with the express tracks. This concourse Is approached by four grand staircases, each twenty-liv- e reet in width. This concourse is the largest In the world, being 160x470 feel and 130 feet high, with wide entrance at each and extending to Madison am Lexington avenues. Adjoining this concourse are the usual waiting rooms, retiring rooms, cafes, telephone and telegraph facilities, etc. The wailing rooms contain twice the area - Forty-secon- Forty-secon- Tfemorse Too Late . the City of Mexico.) Make's squadron of the th cavalry, coming home from a scout through the cactus and mexquite as far aa the Mexican line, had bivnuared at Chirlcahua Tanka with a beer town barely twenty miles away. They had been out for two weeks, had had hut little communication with the post and none whatever with the town, and Rlake's hardy troopers took it much amiss that he should have chosen this spot to spend the night, instead of riding to Rincon, where all the comfort of civilization ice, beer, faro, monte, a free fight or a dance awaited those socially disposed, and several sacks of mail were ready to unload alike upon the just and unjust the sheep and gout of a command famous on Indian campaign for It grit and vim. hut nowhere for Its piety. The odd thing about the matter was that Rincon lay on the dlm-- road home that when the squadron started at dawn It ntnrted for Rincon, and that the major, along towards 7 o'clock, had turned from the trail strayed from the path of righteousness. salil old Sergeant Ponnellv. nnd led them to this uncanny nook at iho foot of the picachn," from whose summit Rincon could be plainly seen shimmering in the heat a wore of miles away, and from whose base it wits but an hour's trot to the nearest point on the Southern laclflc. The westbound express, crawling snakellke through the tawny desert, was in view much of the hour preceding the trumjiet signal 'Dismount anrl the order to unsaddle. Tome, brace up there, Gallagher! growled old Donnelly, to a stocky trooper who stood peering dreamily lids after the through half-clostrain. Go help gather grease-woonr there won't be even coffee to drink. and then, with a plaintive High, 'wld whisky only twenty miles away." Gallagher shook himself together without a reply, shifted a quid of plug to the off-sicheek, and strode out over the stony mesa to Join the "A queer party grubbing for fuel. duck, that! said Donnelly, gazing after him. "The quietest man in the Ihmop till he gets a drop of iraytqr. and then oh. murther! Not n man in the command could guess where Gallagher rnme from. Not s woman at Fbrt Grant hut felt sure then was a story back of that coming. HI descriptive list declared him Imrn In Ireland; age. 33: occupation, mechanic; distinguishing marks, certain scars on the head and liody that told of a possibly turbulent past. Not a soul in the squadron had a fault to find with him after once he learned hi drill and duties, until h (From Anglo-America- n, -- ay t long-legg- ed far-dista- nt ed d. de ran foul of drink. lTnlll then he was gentle, obliging, but reticent, even sad to the last degree. He was neat and precise, a fair horseman, which was surprising in a mechanic, yet accounted for," said Donnelly, by his nationality" an excellent soldier despite a certain "stoop and the fact that the muscles of his left hand seemed to be cramped at times. It was far easier for him to grasp the reins than go through the manual. His marked peculiarity was that in keeping his eyes to the front" he had a way of contractthe lids, ing the brows, and iieering nut through a mere slit of gray and white that made some men swear he'd seeen long apprenticeship as a Jocky. "like a feller used to rldin' in Rut Gallagher, when h high wind." questioned, merely smiled. He would not gamble, he didn't smoke, hut took his tobacco in the shape of a quid, and until that hapless night of the clivus . he had displayed no weakat ness except imsslbly for children. Now, what are we over here for? was llie question that afternoon, as the troopers blinked aloft ami watched tin major with his adjutant and orderly with their hium-iilafrom the peak. Kveii the (.'liiiicahunx were at peace. The long t had been more for practice a fad of the commanding general's than from any thought or Indian raids. No; a paymaster had been robbed for over a year a rare thing for Arizona. Yet tin whole coin nia lui knew that the with the Huaehusa mail had Klopln'd two minutes at their bivouac late the night before, and all officer had xpoken earnestly with their tall and then hastened on. letters and papers, leer and skittles, all to be had at Rincon, yet here they were halted in tin heart of the desert f. wait ing whHt ? Something came toward nightfall two ranchmen, if dress, horses, and horse equipment proved anything, lending a mule laden with what looked like supplies, hut the moment the leader dismounted the trooper knew him for ,i stuff officer famed on the frontier. The moment the (tacks were whisked off the mules, (wo leather mail 'hags were uncovered, and the distribution Most of the men watched the began. eager conference between the newcomer a iii Major Make. Few men. therefore, noted that Gullagher had got a letter and n stroke of palsy. He was shaking like a leaf, and his face was white as he slipped away from the noisy liivouae and plunged down into the gloom of r nearby ravine. It was there Donnelly trailed and found him half an hour later, hi face burled in his hands. Suddenly a cry arose. Through the mat. bless calm of that dry. rare, crys half-closi- Tin-sou- spii-ring- com-inand- er thus providing beautiful light for each office and providing for splendid natural light in the higher part of the train room. Provision is made for doubling the capacity of the station without In any way interfering with the architectural features or general plan of the station. The facade presents an effect which The outgoing baggage is convenient appeals to one at once as presenting to Hi1' ticket offices, and the Incoming a magnificent station, and one which will he an ornament to the city, and baggage 1 convenient to the exits. They have separated the incoming one of which the cilixen may well be and t'e outgoing passengers, thus proud. vision for this cab stand the railroad company has been more than generous, allowing more space than would be contained in Fifth avenue between Thirty-thir- d streets and Thirty-fourt- h If the avenue were twice as wide as it is at this point. The cab stand may be reached with equal facility by the suburban and the express passengers. Reside the main entrance and exit before described, there are additional entrances and exits for the suburban passengers, so that the commuter need not enter the main part of tlie station. associated with Reed & Stem) have admirably accomplished the following vesiits: They have provided the best possible facilities for getting to and getting away from the station. The cab stand is situated In the most cnnvcieiit place for arriving pussen-zo- r. tal atmosphere the watchers at the peak caught sight towards 10 oclock of the flash of a brilliant light through the signal telescopes, focused at sundown on Rincon and wedged Immovably with rock. In five minutes one troop was saddling; in ten It was trotting away northwards: in less than an hour the horses were ploughing through soft sand in the depths of the valley, with the dim light if piracho Riding barely a mile away. Then the troop filed into a shall'iw, crooked ravine, rode Into line, and in dead silence dismounted. Four shadowy horsemen drifted away toward the station the major with the cowboy staff officer and a brace of orderlies. In fifteen minutes they were back disappointed. Due here at 11:30, but delayed west of tlenegs," they heard the major say. "You may as well unsaddle And then ruinor and theory began to circulate In d whispers. Most men knew the express reached Rincon towards 1 o'clock In the morning, and immediately connected their mysterious movement with those of that famous The old llyer of the Sunset route. to the west stage road from Rim-oran over the Rincon spur of the Sierras, a fairly straight northwestward course to Picachn Riding, but the railway had to follow the tortuous windings of the valley further to the south. It was but a twelve-mil- e trot from piem-hstation to the high steeel truss hy means of which stage mad and railway both crossed the gorge of the Cristobal, four h mile west of it was twenty miles liy rail, and road and railroad were hidden from each other by intervening all but the ten hundred yards near Picachn. These facts had import int bearing on the work of the niglu, and he night was clear, still and starlit, the silence sir. Here, you and you. Cross and Kelly. No, Gallagher, not you wid a " rum ranch close to the sidin' But again came the captain's low voice: "Have we a man that understands east-boun- telegraphy? Silence for just five seconds, then. with sudden impulse, Gallagher strode forward out of the dusk, touched the brim of his campaign hat, and said: "I do. sir; at least, enough for railway well-nig- p lo-- e fellow-sergean- thick-heade- d, tough-skinne- trooper Kelly. "Thats like you. Kelly! Sure, we don't want to stand em off. We want to shoo them on, then capture the whole gang. Do what youre told. r. Kelly, and Inv sthralegy to your Yes. sorr." he .elded aloud, springing Instantly to his feet, for the voice of the troop commander. Captain Dana, was henrd calling for Sergeant Donnelly, "Three men to Hde to pi. ai ho? Yes, bet-the- engine?" i , ! Far toward the rear of the halted, panting column a voice waa uplifted. "I can. sir, and In a moment a dim form rode into the gleam of the trainman's lamp. It was Gallagher. "Off with you, then, and into the cab! Dana, stow a dozen men Into the cars, quick! Then find the road. Drive 'em ahead of you to the Cristobal and watch out for us there. Now, then. Gallagher, let her go." Heavens! said old Donnelly afterwards. but that was a ride I'd never had the like of before! Gallagher, he leaped to them levers as though he'd never handled anything else m his life. There whs the major and me and him in (he cab, with little Crabb there to do the firin', for the train crew was knocked out small wondher! and the meejor says, Shall he have some wan In as knows the road? And Gallagher he says, wid a snap of his Jaw: No need. sorr. I know every rail of It. And we lenped and rushed and tore n through the night like a work." "Then lead out and report to Majnr Blake." It couldn't have been five minutes after the major had rode away when the watchers, scattered along tne edge of the bank, were startled by the sight of a brilliant little meteor sweeping into full view around a distant wave of the northwest the headlight, beyond all question, of the night express. "Cornin' down grade riinnln' like a scared deer," muttered the sergeant, as. leaving the reins to No. 4 in each set. the troopers again quitted their places cast-irounrebuked and crawled up the bank to them live wid comet coals, watch the unaccustomed sight. "Good heavens!" said Donnelly. two caars crammed wid throopers behind, and wan thing I'll "She's got the bit in her teeth and is runnln' away!" Rut that was a bad guess. Just as the tall lights were growing dim In the distance with the road of her rapid flight, the welkin rang with the sharp scream of the whistle, following by the screech of the air brakes. At a gallop they went, straight for Piracho, hearing even as they swung into the saddle the popping nr revolvers i mill tin rush of escaping steam far down the track to the southeast. There it Picachn sat Trooper Lawson In front of the station. "This way, captain," he cried. "The major say follow the Rincon road." almost of death. Ami follow they did. fast as panting, Given certain fads It lakes the pluuxing. excited steeds could bear American soldier but a short time to them the pent-uvim and grit and draw I'oiielusinns. They were there to of a fight In a rushing column of keep an eye, so to speak, on that mid- fours. A mile down the track they night llyer, for its express car often imsscd a trooper, dismounted, and with 'Carried vast sums in gold. Very prob- him the dim form of a woman: but, ably that was the case fontgnt, and the never stopping, they rushed on. Two major had been warned that a hold-u- p mile and they came upon the heavy was planned. Pullmans imd day coaches, their pasThen It's Kid Hendricks' gang that's sengers in a panic, their train hands at the bottom of It," whispered Don- clustering about Make, shouting. t. nelly to a He and "Come on, said Blake, and again his pals have been loafing about Rin- they went on over the desert now, for con the last week. I saw Red Mor- the road had swung to the east, and rissey buckin' faro at the Alcazar when three full three miles out of Picachn I went with dispatches." stood the hissing engine, with the pos"Then Why dont we ride into Dca-ch- o tal nnd express enrx. the elerka of the and load up the cah and the cars? former penned In their box. the mesCouldn't we stand off a dozen like Hen- senger in the lntter dead In his dricks?" growled a pet aversion of the car filled with smoke and tracks, fragd ments. Donnelly, a Another messenger lay moanRiiii-on- . coui-t- , The fireman crawled, ing alongside. bleeding, from his tender. The engineer. stunned and senseless, was ilrs a zed from the cah. "They go! warning you were eomlng." wailed the fireman. "Rom fellow galloped out Just as they blew up the safe. Theyve lit nut for Rincon, eight of em." We could do It!" the major. "We could head 'em off at Crlstnbnl gorge. Is there no man can run an never forget was Gallagher's asking the meejor how he came to believe the train was two hours behind. Sure he told us so, the statlonman at Flcacho, him that ran away, an' the wife that was wid him,' says the meejor, and then Gallagher laughed like a hyena. It's like him, said he, Talnt the first time Curly Jack Cronin's run off wid a wife that wasn't hi. Heaven's curse go wid him! and he let out another notch anil yelled for more coal. Pnder the brilliant stars not two hours later, Blake had his men in ambush on both side of the ravine leading down to the bridge at the gorge, and here the young staff captain briefly told the story of the plot so far as It was known to him. A letter had come to the commanding officer at Fort Grant anonymous, but tn a woman's hand saying that the night express was to be held up by the Hendrick gang near Piracho. Word waa sent at once to Blake In the field to try to effect their capture. Signals would be shown at Rincon as soon as their movements could be ascertained, but not until nearly 10 that night was It found that, one or two at a time, and by different routes, they had all left their haunt. Never dreaming that the operator at Picacho could be in league with the gang, Blake had ridden Into the station, and his questions had at once aroused the suspicions of the agent. To gain time and throw Blake off the scent, he declared the train to he two hours late. Then, when Blah went back to the men, the agent, accompanied by his wife, stole away through the night to give warning and presumably to gather his share of the spoils, for, through confederates somewhere. they knew a rich haul could be ex;iected. The woman had weakened under the blows and curse of the man, and was overtaken. It was she who wrote the warning, for, though she had known her husband for u brute, never Is paved with pennies, dime dollars. Lessons in paving in d given at the Ogden State Bn until that month had she belimi a villain. And so Blake's men were b tW "cocked and primed" when cMF o'clock their straining ears sound of swift anj of "quirts" up the rock rosD morn minutes the spur. Two dim cavalcade came flattens and then a voice thundered the darkness: hoof-hea- "Halt! ts Dismount! Thro hands! Pour men turned to lap into Dana's purodngafi, and dropp fools showed fight cracked from the man on a pock mle furioui ,s gun and exchanged be could either & hhn . , trooper, who hurled prey as he dragged hm "Curly Jake, of Arizona, lay and his assailant. with carried dwn to the P torn apart. y bers mid booty were GWP. o troop but ro , had made the lightning to victory. rein or throttle. At yl jj the train had . ,r an engine from them at the er Fi woman knell l.y hi f death rlcw from his was "I sobbed, "ami I o" J7 r knew much of Ury me bcjoial ivorj. tJliatl saw me. girls. I suppose.1 him. and were t and hevf got his enginehe" ried, and 1 dont heaven! drove my br "L'f-er-G- J. J fii-i'- 1 - TVw'lt this! wPeping ,he eet lb' Yet a Jn pallid fbee " "enflnto the bJ to--to uriant tresses of I ,. J |