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Show NEW UNION TERMINAL STATION TO OPEN TODAY Jfi vj5 kf? .1 WILL CARE FOR PASSENGERS ON INTERURBANS ORNER TRANSFORMED The old Valley House (above), which was one of the leading hotels of Salt Lake City years ago and (below), the new terminal passenger station of the Bamberger and Orem lines. I ' ' -my rw t' l iJ l U t'vJtfa if - y &K IhLu III flX: UZf.y l ,UfliL, I i if iff k ihM H r 1ii -fit k HtllM' a""" - ; A " s s 1 l I m !,f , S r Fitted With Every Convenience Con-venience for the Traveling Trav-eling Public. BEGINNING at 6 o'clock this morning, the Salt Lake & Ogden and the Salt Lake & Utah electric elec-tric railroads, known better as the Bamberger and Orem lines, will use their new union terminal station at South Temple and West Temple streets for all passenger traffic. Use of the old station on West Broadway Broad-way for passenger service ceased with the last trains last night, and hereafter here-after that station will be used for freight only. All passenger traffic will be handled from the new station, and it is announced by the railroads that this is the only piace in the city where the interurban trains will stop to take on or discharge passengers. The new station, which is a temporary structure, designed to take care of the passenger traffic of the Bamberger and Orem lines and the connecting line at Ogden into the northern part of the state, is of the most modern construction construc-tion and is fitted to take care of the needs and the comfort of all passengers passen-gers along the lines of the most modern mod-ern interurban terminal stations of the country. Big Structure Planned. The present union station has beon located a short distance from the corner cor-ner so as to leave open the corner, on which it is expected in the next, three or four years to erect a three or four-story four-story terminal station of proportions that will make it a permanent passenger passen-ger Btation for the lines for years to come. An elaborate system of trackage has been laid from tne main lines into the terminal station, and concrete walks have been provided to make access to the trains easy aud comfortable. The tracks and walks have been laid out after patterns set by the largest interurban inter-urban terminal stations of the country. coun-try. The main entrance to tho new terminal ter-minal station is from South Temple street, and the building is arranged with a view to affording the greatest convenience and comfort to the public. A noticeable feature is the absence of stairways. In place of stairs there are . "ramps" or inclines of easy grade that run from the street floor to the track floor and to the. baggage and express departments. Conveniently Arranged. ' On the street level floor are found the waiting rooms, ticket office, a restaurant and news stand, lavatories and office rooms for the agent, dispatcher, dis-patcher, superintendent, trainmaster and trainmen. On the track level there is a large room for baggage aud express matter. Opening of the new terminal station sta-tion is considered an important step in the line of facilitating the handling of interurban traffic, as the two lines running into the station and tho connecting con-necting line at Ogden reach about 70 per cent of the population of the state. The location of the terminal is considered consid-ered especially convenient, for eonfor-ence eonfor-ence crowds, as tho station is but half a block from the entrance to the tabernacle taber-nacle grounds. The new station has been so located as not to interfere with its use or with the construction of the permanent station sta-tion when that, is built. Tho construction construc-tion work was under supervision of Julian Bamberger, general manager, and Warren Stoutnour, superintendent of construction. The permanent station will occupy the exact site of the old Valley house, Salt Lake's historic hotel. This structure, struc-ture, which was torn down when work on the new station commenced, was one of the oldest hotels of the city, and in the early davs of Utah's history was the leading hotel of this section of the country. It. was one of the most famous fa-mous hostelries of its time, and about it might .be woven many interesting stories of pioneer days. The present new station is just west of where the famous old hotel stood, hut the permanent station will occupy the exact site on which the hostelry stood. |