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Show 'r I I Covers 30 blocks, comprises scores ot monumental structures, with 33 miles 01 trucks underneath. ' New Grand Central Terminal I A wonderful city, within a city, built for the comfort and convenience of the traveling public. I The main Grand Central Ter (Fourth Avenue), one bloek from Underneath the Terminal City minal Building in New York is now Fifth Avenue and convenient to and its streets are 33 miles of rail- I open to the public. This vast Broadway. way tracks on two separate levels, I improvement is more than a great r. . . . , n the upper for Through Service and railway Terminal-it is a Terminal .. It is the onlyTenninal on all the lower for Suburban Service. ' , . ,p j lines ot local traffic subwav, sur- i. City, complete m itself providing Each level forms a compIete ter. every detail essential to comfort cars pass its doors everv dav afford. minal in itself, separate entrances and convenience. easy transit faciHties to any and exits, with equal facilities for It will embrace convention, part of Greater New York. Around the comfort of passengers, amusement and exhibition halls, it, and within a radius of a few Both levels are reached by gently I hotels, clubs and restaurants: post blocks, are forty-nine hotels, fifty- inclined walks. No stair climbing, office, express offices, modern apart- eight clubs and thirty-five theatres, and no confusion, since incoming tnent and office buildings, and num- rraar; .mAo-A and outgoing traffic is separated, erous stores and specialty shops. Threc new Imes of underground . . D transportation are now bunding to 1 lcket, rullman, baggage and Grand Central Terminal is the Grand Central Terminal, and soon other facilities are progressively ar-Heart ar-Heart of New York. At Forty- there will be six levels for human ranged from waiting room to train, second Street and Park Avenue traffic in Forty-second Street. no step need be retraced. Plan your trip East over the New York Central Lines; enjoy restful sleep on the "Water Level Route, " three hours of picturesque grandeur along the historic Hudson and enter ; The Heart of New York City i I SOMF. FEATURES OF GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL J5sr"."" SOME FEATURES OF GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL THE LARGES'I RAILWAY rER MINAL IN THE WORLD. Ww WSHsV U Nb U K 1 ASb E D IN L'SEl I 1 NESS rO THE PUBLIC Area SO blocks, thre times larger than any oilier terminal. SsMsttBBffBBHBWBBA Direct entrance to subwas tor New York and Long Island. Excavation, 3,095,000 cubic two-thirds solid rock IB B BnkBi Bj yjfiH B81 54 elexators for passengers, mail, baggage and express. Sixty-seven trncks on two levels, aggregating miles. LSjLMk3UBASftA3toBy 8 ticket windows conveniently located in concourse. Five miles of passenger platforms, level with the cir floors. !E8$l8lMTffMMiBP '1XI cal)S arilJ motor '"' ,es r,r'' l;I1r terminal mot. Eight hundred trains in and out of terminal every Hhv. HS&WllftgBv Women's private manicure hair dressing and rest rooms. Pss( ngers handled annuall . approximately , -'5,000,000. PPHlHHBP Restaurant and lunch moms with unique vaulted ceiling. Thirty thousand people are accommodated at one time. Complete ijsteru of paging friends are quickly located. "Water Level Route'' j ttead tbe CiasslfieJ Ads. - ' LH 111 H ' 'H |