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NEW STATION PLANS.
FINE P. R. R. TERMINAL.
Details of Structure To Be Erected
in This City.
Tba latest plans for the Pennsylvania Railroad
station in Manhattan, which were made public
yesterday, show that the structure will contain
the largest waiting room ln the world. It will
be 33U feet long. 110 feet wide and 150 feet high
occupying the central part of the structure and
extending Its entire width from 31st street to
33d street. The station will also surpass any
station now built in its number of exits and
entrances, both at and below the street level.
Externally the station will resemble the baths
af Caracalla in the days of ancient Rome. It
lack the towers and turrets which usually
tormount American railroad buildings In large
cities, and will also be without the omamenta
tjon characteristic of many of the newest Euro
jear. railroad terminals, contrasting strongly in
Ibis respect with the recently constructed sta
tlon of the Orleans railroad on the Qua! d'Or
say. in Paris.
The Pennsylvania station will be surrounded
by a plain I>oric colonnade, supporting a roof
eixtj- feet high. It will occupy an area of about
sfßßt acres. Including all the land between Sev
:.d Eighth avenues and 31st and 33d
streets. The track yards, which will cover not
:.e lowest floor of the station, but also the
. of the excavation between 81st and 33d
etrr- is and Eighth and Tenth avenues, will
have a total area of twenty-five acres.
- of the activities of the great station will
w ground. There will be three levels, one
even with the street, one beneath and the lowest
forty feet below the street, where the tracks will
be laid. Passengers entering by the chief gate
way of the building, which will be in the centre
of Off Seventh avenue front at the intercepted
end of 3Ud street, will walk west toward the
great "Raiting- room along an Imposing arcade
level with the street. This will be 225 feet long
ar.d 4o feet wide, flanked by shops. At the end
oJ the arcade passengers will descend by broad
flights of stairs to the general waiting room on
nod level
Within this great chamber will be the ticket
r? as. parcel rooms, telegraph and telephone
and baggage checking windows. Adjoln-
Ins the general waiting room on the west will
be two subsidiary waiting rooms. 58 by 100 feet,
tlvely. for men and women.
GREAT COVERED CONCOURSE.
:ie second level also, parallel to and con-
Becting- with the main waiting room by a wide
GENERAL WAITING UOOM, PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD STATION.
thoroughfare, and west of toe subsidiary waiting
roams, will i* the concourse, a covered assem
bling place »v«r 100 feet wide, extending the an
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ttt» width of the station and under the adjoin
ing streets. An tdea of the width of this con
course may be gained by a comparison of it with
the lobby of the Jersey City train shed, which is
narrower by twenty-five feet. This may be
termed the vestibule to the tracks as two sets
of stairs descend from It to each 'of the train
platforms on the track level. The concourse
and adjacent areas are open to the tracks form-
Ing a courtyard 340 feet long by 210 feet wide,
roofed by a lofty train shed of Iron and glass,
similar in design to the famous train sht-ds of
the new stations in Frankfort and Dresden,
Germany. In addition to the entrances to the
concourse from the waiting room there will be
also direct approaches from 31st and 33d streets
and EU'lKh avenue.
Auxiliary to the main concourse and situated
between It and the tracks will be a sub-con
coume. 60 feet wide, which will be used for exit
purposes only. This passageway is to be 18
f^et above the tracks, but connected with the
track level by two stairways and one elevator
from each platform. Prom It ample staircases
and Inclines will lead directly to 81st, 3;id and
84th streets to Eighth avenue and to future
rapid transit stations under Seventh or Eighth
avenue Direct connectio nmay also be made
with the proposed subway stations in Greeley
bquare without ascending to the street level
♦1, l ii lrd level - wWch wOl he at a depth below
the surface of the street corresponding to the
hei-ht of a four story building, is the track level
„J n t t? ie J w , 0 trac k« emerge from the tubes
under the Hudson and reach the entrance to the
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD STATION.. NEW YORK CITY.
station yards at Tenth avenue they will begin
to multiply, and at Ninth avenue, and extending
Into the station, tho total number will have grown
to twenty-one. There will be also a reduction
ln the number of tracks leading out of the sta
tion to the east, to a total of four for the main
line, two passing under 32d and two under 3od
street, and thence under the East River to the
Long Island City yards. The track surface of
the station may be compared to two unfolded
CONCOURSE AND TRACKS, PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD STATION.
fans Joined together at the open ends, the han
dle of one extending: under the Hudson and that
of the other under the East River. Within th*
station area, covering 1 twenty-flve acres of
ground space, there will be sixteen miles of
tracks. This trackage area will afford facilities
for the movement of many hundred trains a day
by means of electric power. Through trains
from tne western side of the Hudson, after dis
charging passengers, will proceed at once to
I»ng Island City, where the train yards and ter
minals will be located, thus leaving the station
tracks clear of any Idle equipment, and likewise
the westbound through trains made up at the
Long Island City terminal will pass through the
station, stopping only to take up their Quota of
passengers.
The northern Bide of the station In 3M street
will be assigned to the suburban service of the
Long Inland Railroad. Into which trains will run
from all points on Long Island by way of the
East River tunnels. The suburban service of
the Long Island Railroad will be operated on
the "shuttle" plan, by which the trains will be
kept in continuous motion In and out of the
station.
The restaurant, lunch rooms and cafe will be
on the first level, at the further end of the ar
cade. To the east of the general waiting room
the main baggage room, with 4.10 feet of front
age, for the use of the transfer wagons, will be
located, covering the full area occupied by the
arcade and restaurants on the plane above. The
baggage will be delivered and taken away
through a special subway, thirty feet wide, ex
tending under and along the entire length of
iJlst street, from Seventh to Eighth avenue.
From the baggage room trunks will be deliv
ered to the tracks below by motor tracks and
elevators. The cab stands will also occupy this
level.
At the corners of 31st and 33d streets and
Seventh avenue there will be open pavilions,
which will furnish carriage entrances for In
coming- end outgoing traffic. Under cover car
riages will descend from the street level by a
alight gradient about twenty feet to the level
of the station proper, the 31st street Incline
being assigned as an entrance and the 83d street
ascent as an exit. By this arrangement carriage
passengers will be delivered at the most con
venient entrance to tho general waiting room.
The outside walls of the station will b« of pink
Milford granite, similar to the building stone of
*he University: Club of New York.
NEW-YOEK DAILY TP,IBUm THURSDAY, MAY 17. 1000.
MAY LOSE FRANCHISE.
REPORT ON WESTCHESTER
Line Has Not Carried Out Prom
ises, New Rochelle Men Find.
The committee on franchises of the New
Rochelle Common Council turned in a report
yesterday on the application of the New York,
Westchester & Boston Railway Company for a
franchise to lay tracks through the city, saying
it believed that the company was certain to lose
its franchise In August next on account of its
failure to comply with the main requirements of
the franchise.
The franchise committee, which is made up of
Henry Kallenberg. jr.. Eben Adams. Alfred Rado
and Henry S. Clark, was appointed on March 20
last to make a report on the Westchester com
pany's application. In a long document the
committee says, among other things:
v Th ,? applicant accepted a franchise from New
1? F ti ™L»° n , Au * ÜBt ,2, 2 19 *»- wherein it agreed to
do 51,000,000 of actual construction, exclusive of
any cost for real estate, ln two years, or forfeit Bald
franchise. The two years expire on August 2,
lE^jt). To the present time the applicant has not
done JMtt.OOu worth of actual construction ln The
Bronx (see engineering reports, etc., and other data,
etc., accompanying this report), in consequence of
which Its New York frar. jhise Is by Its terms sub
ject to forfeiture next August, as it has not ac
quired and apparently cannot acquire over 10,000
feet of Us proposed and Indispensable Bronx route,
located between East 177 th street and Mount Ver
non, a distance of only about 21.000 feet, to say
nothing of the balance of about €3,000 feet of Its pro
posed Bronx route, which it has not acquired.
The applicant has not secured any franchises or
rights to construct its proposed railroad In Pelham,
Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Harrison. Rye, Port
Chester or "White Plains. If It is proceeding in
good faith and believes it can construct any rail
road this neglect to acquire so many indispensable
franchises is inexplicable.
The applicant has only acquired a small propor
tion of its total proposed route through The Bronx,
Mount Vernon and Pelham.
That if the applicant were proceeding in good
faith to construct a railroad, ft would and could
have practically completed its proponed Bronx
route between the Harlem River and Mount Vernon
since It received its New York franchise on August
2. lao*. Instead of having Its Bronx main line be
tween the Harlem River and Mount Vernon now
practically completed. It has done a small amount
of work on only that portion of Its main line be
tween Bast 177 th street and Mount Vernon, and is
now unable to proceed further In The Bronx on ac
count of antagonistic interests owning Its proposed
right of way on each side of the small strip on
which It is now doing some grading.
We believe that the New York franchise of the
applicant is certain to be forfeited after next Au
gust, on account of it not bavins' complied even
partially with its main requirements relating to
construction, and on account of the existing con
dition of the public mind in the matter of public
franchises, and furthermore and essentially on ac
count of the expressed determination of the New
York Board of Estimate and Apportionment and
Mayor McClellan not only rigidly to bind and
hold all corporations coming within their Jurisdic
tion to the obligations of their franchises, but also
and principally to prevent and arrest the public
injury due to the existence of unused or doubtful
franchises, which have the effect of clouding real
co m \ r munity tleS *** arreßtin * the develop^! of a
The applicant also admitted that It has not yet
F-^ UU t re i-t a h n> H tr ig t t^ way ln The Bron^sSuVof
F st 177 th .£2?, t> *"**<*«» the Harlem River and
ifn* »iik Ue t '' ? °? iV ro P°sed Bronx branch
line. a which facts indicate its Intention of
abandoning over 70 per cent of its total proposal
eluded aTo? «£*» £ Whi< ; h . ahil?«Jonmin PPrP t r £T!
ciuaea all of that portion , of Its orljrinallv proposed
th" New Yort BoTrd ° , £" Bronx^apV ffied P wUh
me .\ew xorK Board of Kstlmate anil Annnrtion
went and also filed with the County Clerk P of F New
ail or Its originally proposed Bronx branch i-nuto
comprising about i>,m feet moxelnoJher words
The report of the committee was received.
Final action on the application was postponed
for sixty days.
P- R. R. WATER SUPPLY.
Will Place Loan to Equip Line Be
tween Pittsburg and Here.
It Is seml-offlcially stated ln Philadelphia, ac
cording to a special dispatch from that city
received by a Wall Street news agency yester
day, that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Is
making arrangements for placing a special loan
to carry out It 3 plan for equipping the line with
a complete water supply between Pittsburg and
New York.
The last annual report to stockholders said on
this head:
Owing to the largely Increased demand arising
from the growth of the traffic the former
sources of supply had become Inadequate, and
on the lines traversing the coal districts, the
quality of the water was rapidly becoming unfit
for locomotive ufit Arrangements have now
been made, through contract* with companies
organized and owned by your company, to secure
an adequate supply of good water at all points
on your main line between Pittsburg and Naw
York, and also on the more important branches,
and for the construction of th« reservoirs and the
piping of the water to your lines, whence It will
be distributed jiloriß the right of wuy to tha
necessary points. The coat of this undertaking
will be large, but it will ba of Incalculable value.
. . . It Is proposed to obtain tba funds for
this outlay by an Issue of special securities ma
turing at short periods, and as there will ba
a large savins; both ln cost of water and ln
boiler repairs, the principal and Interest thereof
can be met, without undue burden, out of your
current Income.
FORMER NEW YORKER CALLED.
[By Telegraph to Th» Trtbuna.)
Colorado Springs. CoL, May I&— The Rev. Henry
Rutgers Remsen, formerly rector of Calvary Epis
copal Church, In New* Tot* City, ha* baaa c *- i * a
hare.
Argument ceases in the
presence of Evans' Ale.
Put the President
and Senators Tiliman
and Chandler wise to
the way out of their
difficulties.
MAYOR PRAISES PADDEN.
Says at Meter Hearing That Water
Register Is All Right.
Michael C. Padden. the water register, re
ceived a glowing indorsement from the Mayor
yesterday at a public hearing on a bill designed
to permit the Commissioner of Water Supply to
experiment with water meters. In objecting to
the bill Herman G. Friedman, of the South
Bronx Property Owners' Association, declared
that the metering of tenement houses and homes
would be unnecessary if the Commissioner of
Water Supply % did his full duty ln stepping the
waste and theft of water.
"The Mayor Is quite convinced that the Com
missioner is doing his duty, his full duty," the
Mayor said, "or the Commissioner would not ba
in office."
"Then some trouble should be taken to find
out who Is stealing the city's water," Mr. Fried
man continued. "We hear of a sugar refinery
where, more than one million gallons of water a
year Is stolen, despite the claim that the prem
ises are metered."
"The work of the water register is being most
admirably dona," the Mayor replied; "better
than It was ever done before. Mr. Padden, the
register, collected ln the first three months of
his service $125,000 more than ever was collect
ed before ln a like period. He heard that water
was being stolen from the docks, and ha bor
rowed a boat and collected from offender*
$G. 500."
About one hundred and fifty persons appeared
in opposition to the bill. It was prepared by the
Merchants' Association, and has the approval
of Commissioner Ellison. It is a permissive bill,
which empowers the Board of Estimate and Ap
portionment to authorize the Department of
W T ater Supply to meter certain unnamed dis
tricts of the city to "obtain Information as to
the consumption and waste of water." The
Real Estate Owners', the West End Associa
tion, the Taxpayers', the Citizens* and half a
dozen other associations sent delegations to op
pose it. All of them declared it would work a
hardship on the tenement class, and that the
city is not Justified in spending $lo,Ouu.tHJO to
$12,000,000 to find out what everybody knows—
that the water Is wasted by leaky mains and
reservoirs.
Lawrence Veiller, secretary of the City Club,
and Alderman Meyers spoke ln favor of the
measure. Mr. Veiller said that the Legislature
had nearly abolished the Mayor's new water
board, and declared that the passage of the act
under discussion would disarm a lot of criticism.
The Mayor did not indicate what action he
would take. There were twenty-three measures
ln all for public consideration to-day. Most of
them were private bills permit tins; the city to
audit claims, or heads of departments to reopen
and re-try cases of men dismissed.
WOMAN KILLED BY FALL.
Looked Down Open Elevator Shaft
and Lost Balance.
The gateway of the elevator shaft on the
sixth floor of Nos. 580 and 582 Broadway, being
left open, presumably by John W. Carter, the
negro elevator operator. Miss Mary Thelson,
twenty years old, of Arlington avenue and Lin
wood Place, Brooklyn, fell down the shaft to the
basement yesterday afternoon, and was instantly
killed.
Miss Thelson was employed by Levy & Co..
cloakmakers. on the sixth floor of the building,
and was looking down to see the elevator and
lost her balance. A policeman who was sum
moned arrested the elevator man. After the ac
cident became known among Miss Theison's fel
low workers they became so unnerved that a
number were forced to go home. The body was
taken to the Mulberry street police station, and
the Coroner notified. Carter, before Coroner
Harburger yesterday afternoon, was held in
15 000 bail to await the inquest.
Coroner Harburger has objected to the re
moval of Miss Theison's body from the scene
of the accident by the police befure first get
tlne his permission, and says he haw notified the
Police Commissioner to issue ordt-rs to all the
precincts that bodies are not to be touched until
the arrival of or by the permission of the
Coroner.
JOSEPH A. TURNEY INDICTED.
The grand jury yesterday filed with Judge Foster
In Part I of General Sessions two indictments
against Joseph A. Turner, note teller of the Na
tional Bank of America. Turner was arrested on
March 30. after an examination of his books showed
ralgned before Judge Foster ln Part I to-day.
TESLA ASKS CHANGE OF VENUE.
Nikola Tesla's attorney yesterday applied to Jus
tice Blschoff. of the Supreme Court, for a change
of venue to Suffolk County in a suit brought by
Frank "W. Clark, a machinist, employed at on«
time by Tesla ln his laboratory at Wardenclytte.
ln that county, to recover $889 14 alleged to be tmX
ance due ln wages, the suit having been brought
In the City Court. Manhattan. Tesla said In an
affidavit after reciting that he had employed the
plaintiff and paid him $743 76 ln full, that he had
never employed him for the services immed in the
suit asserting that at the time of the alleged ser
vices TTWaraenclyffg Clark actually tho
employ of Frederick C. OriswoU at Fort Jefferson.
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S. P. C. A. ORGAN DEAD.
"Our Animal Friends/" Discontinued
by Board of Managers.
The latest step ln the new policy of economy
and retrenchment being practised by the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Is the
suspension by the board of managers of "Our
Animal Friends," the monthly publication of the
society.
This magazine was established many years ago
by John P. Haynes. the former president of the
society. The last number to be published was
Issued this month.
It is estimated that the discontinuance of "Our
Animal Friends" will save the society about
$10,000, which will be hereafter devoted to hu
manitarian work among the animals
REGRETS CRAPSEY TRIAL.
"Churchman" Editorially Declare*
Action Was a Mistake.
Reviewing the Dr. Crapsey heresy trial to an
editorial ln the current number, under the caption,
"The Verdict at Batavla." "The Churchman" de
clares a mistake was made, that Dr. Crapeay
should never have been brought to trial, and that
while its position on the two facts immediately
concerned, the Virgin birth and Rassurection, is
diametrically opposed to Dr. Crapaeys. the question
was not Dr. Crapsey's error, but how bast to cor
ract It. It says:
The mistake at Batavla was not so much in the
verdict reached as in the attempt to reach ona.
Once the man was brought to trial the damage waa
dona. It is true that, except as it is personal to
the suspended priest, the verdict is local ln lt«
application; it Is made by a diocesan court ana
affects only that diocese.
Unfortunately as some believe, fortunately as
others think, no appeal on «he final question is
possible. Questions of competence, questions of
procedure can be passed upon by the court of re
x-lew of the province: questions of heresy cannot.
A court of appeals for the whole Church remains
to ba constituted. The Church la. therefor*, m
the anomalous poslclon that the most Important
lasua that can poajifcly come bafora a church court
can only come before the lowest court recognized
by the Church, a court in which each diocese, fol
lowing the analogy of the states of the Union, ex
ercises an autonomy within large limits and, at
present, in this matter, uncontrolled.
Summing up. "The Churchman" says:
Dr Crapsey Is a man of whole' souled devotion
of eager heart and burning eloquence, but that
does not make him a keen theologian a profound
exeirete or a wise interpreter of the relation of the
Church to politics: but Justice would not hava
sreatlv suffered, and the causa of true orthodoxy
and of the Church would have gained if his error
had been left to burn Itself out in comparativa
obscurity, instead of being blazonad to a wonder
ing and too often mocking world.
BIG OIL TANK EXPLODES.
People Near Constable Hook in
Panic, Fearing Earthquake.
The explosion of a big tank filled with oil !n
the lower yards of the Standard Oil Company at
Constable Hook yesterday morninjc shortly after
10 o'clock gave many residents of Bayonne and
Staten Island a scare. In the Hook section,
where there is a large population, the excite
ment was Intense and people ran from their
homes in alarm. Many thought it was an earth
quake.
The tank which blew up had a capacity of
50000 barrels of oil. It is supposed to hava
contained about 25.000 barrela at the time it ex
ploded. Buildings were shaken and windows
shattered within a mile of the Standard works
on the Jersey shore, and on Staten Island win
dows along the waterfront at St. George and
New Brighton were broken.
The works an situated at Constable Hook, an
isolated place two miles from Bayonne. beat
reached by crossing the Kill yon Kull from
Stater. Islnnd An hour after the explosion a
heavy black rail hunp over the Kill yon Kull.
caused by the denee Mack smoke which curled
up from the burning tank. The fire burned itself
out by nightfall.
The Standard Oil Company would give no ex
planation of the cause, hut others familiar with
previous oil fires said they thought the expl.>
slon might be due to gases which had accumu
lated In the tank during the recent wet weather.
CEHBTTKES BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL.
Coroner's Jury Finds That Patient Was Dis
missed While in Dangerous Condition.
Eleven of the Jurors In Coroner Shrady's court
yesterday censured the authorities of Bath Israel
Hospital for "dismissing deceased while la a dan
gerous condition." and the twelfth Juror filed an lav
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JOHN MORGAN.
MS-MI TV. S9tb St.
Phon* S3* Bryant.
resulted from injuries." The twelfth Juror was)
Benjamin Adler. of No. 30? Seventh avenue.
Meyer, who w*s a lunch counter man living at
Canal and Chrratla streets, was scalded by bouts—
liquid on April 30. Ha went to the Bath Israel
Hospital ana had his »calia dressed, and next day
appeared at Gouverneur Hospital and asked for
admission, presenting aa informal request that ha
b« admitted, written on a prescription blank bear
ing the printed headlines si Beth Israel. The mam
died two days later.
At the inquest the Beth Israel officials dadus*
that they had no record of Meyer having beta
treated there and they could not explain ham Uie
nan hapDaned to hava m bis possasssasi Bstft
Imz%UX atAtl3a*--y.
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