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Show I A Great Railroad Station Hj Chicago & Northwestern to Build a Won- j derful Station in Chicago. The Detail. Hf A passenger station that will taku Hg Its place among this great trausporta- K tloncciid rsof the world Is to bo built K by the tJlncao and North-Western H Ilallwaj In Chicago. K The plans for the station, which will B be located on tho West Side, between Hl Madison, Lake, Carul and Clinton j streclH, were made public jestordny. Hj The bit; striicture.wllh Its twentieth H century atmosphere, will Invudconc H. of the oldest sections of tho city. Do- J ens of buildings which dato from the K Chicago lire will be razed to make way Hf for It. Among the structures to go Hj will be the old Gault House in West Hj MadNon street, known to Chlcagoans . of a generation ago as one of the city's H) leading hotels H. The work of clearing tho ground i and constructing the building will B probably begin next spring, and with- K in two icais from now it is expected ' that the railway will be operating H from the new terminal, H To Cost Nearly $20,000,000. i 'J ho North- Western company Is pre- B- pircd to expend on this Improvement W- of Its Chicago facilities between $17,- S 000,000 and $20,000,000 and from an V architectural point of view the station ' building, It Is promised, will surpass anything of the kind In this country. " B' Main Front on Madison street, Tho principal facade of the building, jp which will be several stories high, will .' rise In Madison street, between Canal ''' and Clinton, while the train sheds will extend three blocks north. j! The plans of the North-Westcrn of- Hf- Heals teem with hitherto unheard of W facilities for the handling of a tremen- dous volumo of tralllc. One of the most striking novelties of the station HI will be the fact that It will span two Jjl entire streets, Washington and Ran- HB dolph, without Interfering with tralllc Vj or requiring a change of grado in the HMr thoroughfares. Street car and other K. tralllc will pass through great orna- HHl; mental archways and an Illuminated HK tunnel a block long. This arrange- HBi tncnt-ls said to bo without u precedent HI! In tills country. Bj' Six Street Level Entrances. HBV The station will have entrance facilities three or four times greater i than the Wells street station. In all W there will be six street level entrances one In Madison, two In Washington, V two in Randolph and one In Lake. HBlj Madison street electric cars will run HmJ past the main cntrancc.thc Milwaukee 1 avenue and other Northwest Side ,' lines will pass through the station in Hj;' llandolph street. Other West Side HH. lines yet to bo determined will run In- HKl to the station from the Washington HJ' street tunnel, when reconstructed, HH, and the north entrance will bo served HH- by, the Lako street clevatsd and sur- H? face lines.. There will also bo provl- Hh slou In tho plans for connection at HKr' some future date with Chicago's pros- HHj pectlve subway HVT The general waiting rooms ami the HF tracks will be on tho second tloor level. HH'fv Here thcro will bo sixteen tracks, each He; ono able to accommodato a train of HBjv Hfteen or sixteen cars. Rj Present Depot Built Long Ago. HH The new terminal, with all Its at- HH tendant facilities, will consummate HH ambitions which tho North-Westcrn HH' company has entertained in this dl- HB; rectlon for nearly n generation. HHj. Tim Wells street station was built HH. In 1882, when tho road had only forty HBt or fifty trains a day and handled only HH. -1,000 people a day or 0,000,000 a jcar. HH' Today tho road has .101 trains, carry- HH ', log 15,000 passengers a day or 21,000,000 HH On tho new site pas?cngors from tho HH- loop district will bo ablo to gain access HJ to thostntlon oy llvo avenues Instead HH.! of one, and, the trackage boing entire- HBT; ly on the west sldo of tho rlvor, tho HB operation of trains will not be delayed HBk by bridges. HB' Ono of tho principal features will HB; be the reorganisation of track faclll- HB ties by tho construction of two now HB routes of three tracks, each leading j from the north end of the station, one HH'' running In a northwesterly direction HB and Joining the main lino of tho Wis- BB" consul and Milwaukee divisions, and HI'; tho other running directly west to tho BBV'' Omaha or Galena division. Each of BB theso now tracks will bo dovotnd ex- Hv tiuslvcly to passenger trafllo. HHJ Tho present tracks with these routes BH will parallel will bo given over entirely BHji to freight tralllc, and tho slto of tho HHU Wells street station will doubtless HHk eventually bo employed as a freight BHfc? depot exclusively. B Several Trains a Minute. HM .Tho new station will liavo a capa- HHj olty of several trains a minute, whero- KwBIBt1' HBHHHl BBEB. 3kSKw -.'-.--..s Vj., ,-. as the present station can handle only ono ovcry two minutes In area the new station will be larger than any In Chicago, and In capacity for business is expected to cn.ua! the facilities of the Huston South station, Hie greatest single center of tralllc In this country. It became evident to President llughlttof the North-Westcrn several years ago.that tho rapid growth of Chicago, the development of the contiguous con-tiguous territory, and thu Increase In transcontinental tralllc speedily would make It necessary to enlarge the depot and terminal facilities In that city. With its station and yards located on a piece of ground shaped like a llatlron and terminating with a drawbridge at its point, it was clear that the Northwestern North-western must llnd a more extensive entrance to the olty If It was to meet the demands of Its Inci easing business. Impressed with theso Ideas, Mr. Ilughltt, llvo years ago, without taking tak-ing anyono Into his confidence, began to make the plans which arc now being be-ing carried out. After having carefully care-fully considered the conditions with which he had to deal, ho, about eighteen eigh-teen months ago, employed John F. Wallace, former chief engineer of tho Panama canal, as consulting engineer, and since then Mr. Wallace bus been constantly engaged In working out tho details. So secret was President Hug-hltt's Hug-hltt's purpose kept that only within the last year have his subordinates begun to realise the drirtof the statements state-ments and estimates of various kinds which he has been having them lay befuro him. Many plans were worked out, and, after Investigation, rejected, before tho present ones were llnally accepted as best adapted to meet all the possibilities possi-bilities and probabilities of the future. |