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| 18, 1M12, PAGE ELEVEN. a by | im EA J tr ts fv 7 ', © a il | ! Ft HE herrying feet of a hundred wilifons have been helping the New York Central to decide the kind of pavement to use in the passageways of its superb! new passenger terminal, which will be opened about Jan. 31. The suburban station. for the accommodation of the vast army of commuters, was opened lust October® The suburban concourse is of the same dimensions as the main concourse--~300 by 120 feet--except a8 to height of celling. It is a station complete in all details, the same as the wuln concourse for through passen- gers. The public also has aided In determining the easiest slope for the raps that lead from one level to suutber instead of stairways. The uverage eyesight of the innumerable throug has settied the size of the let- ters snd thelr spaciug in thé signs at the entrances to the traln platforms-- the places where there is time for only a hasty glance. In these and In many other ways have the people themselves assisted in the making of the pew Grund fentral terminal the most mar velous city gate in all the world, All Move in Straight Lines. The great currents of traffic, that are at their height at night and at moro- ing. are kept separate. They do not meet or mingle. Each flows smoothly in its proper direction. This is be- cause, like the man running tb catch his train, they go iu a straight line. There are no corners to turn. The signs begin at the subway and at the exits from the train platforms. They start the crowd in the right direction, and all it bys to do is to keep moving straight ahead, which is the most nat ural thing in the world, The passage way from the inbound stason to the subway and the other one from the subway®to the trains each Is as straight as a ruler's edge. All this sounds perfectly simple and easy of accomplishment. It wight be if you were handling only a thousand "Jp a a, Sn) tons] | pre -------------- J The New Grand Central Terminal, In New York City, Nearly Completed, » Will Accommodate 100,000,000 Passengers a Year. fice. The streams never meet. There is no delay, no lost metion. The Man In a Hurry. Enter the new station by practically whatever door you will and your for ward progress to your train is con- tinuous. You need take no backward steps. You even shorten the distance by going to the ticket office. There are so tmny windows at which tickets will be sold that there will be no wait ing. The man who is in haste to buy and down the car steps Is eliminated, It cuts in half the time of loading and unloading passengers. It has been dinary suburban train takes eighty gers have to descend the car steps. takes forty seconds when they walk directly onto the station platform. | necessity of the passenger going up |eac h, found by experimenting that the or-| 8 ape Ah There are forty of them. They are to lusure a trzin against going into any of the columns or on to the con- course, They have to be exceptional ly strong.so as to take care of the ex- | traordiuarily heavy trains--ten to fif- seconds to unload when the passen-| It] | In er devised that will the old way the passenger had to |couditiovs. climb down three and one-half feet, | world are In a station iy Glasgow, which later he had to ascend to get | Scotland teen steel cars, each eighty-four feet long Never before has there been a bump. | meet American The biggest ones in the They have a capacity of re & & ticket for a train that i» abet Sout fifo the street. There is an wld 'etsting an hmpact-of HOH tons Poving at start need not come in contact with the one who is standing at the window asking questions and planning his jour ney. There are plenty of places for each--the hurried and the leisurely. Ticket iu hand, a man rushes across the big concourse. He Is going on the Twentieth Century Limited. He has po time to spare. From the two points on either side of the concourse where may come in he has a complete view of the train gate line. He may gweep it from end to end at a glance. Over each gate Is a triangular box that projects out from the wall. It shows the number of the track, the name of the train and the time it departs. The two visible sides of this "box" are placed at a certain angle. It took a jong time--months of patient study and testing with thousands of eyes--to get these signs so that each should be always exactly at right angles with the line of vision of the hurried passen- ger seeking his train. If the man is going to stop at some ¢ity east of Chicago or whatever Is the ultimate destination of the trails he is anxious to know If the train he ted will halt there. Probably bas been in too much of a rush te tional saving of seconds and of energy in the new way: also it is much safer. The risk of accident practically disap- pense. Millions For Temporary Work. Literally millions of dollars have been spent all through this great ter {minal to make it better than anything {ever known before and to ellminate {se far as humanly possible every ichance of accident. In the millions {that have been expended for conven: fence and comfort should be included the "temporary work" of which to trace now remains. Yet it cost more {than $2,000,000. This was the extra {expense for carrying on the business without inconvenfenciug the passen- gers while the old station was befng demolished--such things as temporary train sheds, trestles built fn the yards for carrying trains over excavations, and things hike that which would not have been necessary iu the creation of a terminal on ground mot in constant use. A New and Marveléus Bumper. The matter of bumpers at the ends of tracks would not seem worthy of much study, vet it is another of the jtems that has received years of con- The ordina tation bum- per is simply two vily braced up rights that will stop § train going at a moderate rate of speed. Such bump. 'ers cost about $100 each to comstruct. Those which are being put iu at the Grand | | pears. But such a thing, lke every: | Amer thing else about a big station like this, in the center of the car no matter If It seems an unimportant [installed in th detail, adds tremendously to the ex- minal will have a capacity tons moving at ten miles an hour and | | } { | a speed of ten miles an hour, In the inglish trains the bumpers strike at he two lower corners of the car. In fcan trains the blow is received Those being Central ter of 1.000 t Grand wiil produce an dbsolute stop without accident to the train or to the struc tures behind the bumper fs very rare, but when the emergency arises the bumper becomes very im portant. It took more than a year to design and build the first oe. and that after eight years spent in studying and experimenting. It is only one of the many things designed to prevent prob lematic accidents which may never oc cur. They are esseutial for the' maxi mum safety, bat they add enormously | to the cost of a big terminal Storing Eleétricity For Emergencies. At frequent intervals throughout the station "yard"--the great network of tracks that spread fanwise in two lev. | els south of Fiftieth street--there is "battery house," in which is stored coutinually enough electricity to ban die the busiuess of its particular sec. tion #t the "peak of the load" for from twenty minutes to half an hour inde i pendent of the dynamos and the other the Grand Central to take a train for, machinery in the big power and licht| ... (Cliago plant. That means that if everything would keep the lights shining and the trains moving long envugh to make re pairs. and the general public probably would pot know that anything was wrong. The business of the great ter minal would continue without a bitch. The engineers say there has not been an interruption of the electric service for six years, but that they don't want any 1f it is humanly possible to prevent it. Probalyy nowhere eise in the world bas so much important experimental research been carried on and so many vital problems solved for the public benefit a8 fn the building of the Grand Central terminal. ? Announcing Arrivals and Departures. When ap incoming train is about te arrive there is a great stir among the Such a shock | i that he be reached immediately fo re else should fail the storage batteries] |erowds of people awaiting it. They |cal announcers call out from one end | gather about the bulletin board aud [of the station to the other, "Mr watch to see on which track it is com- | Smith is wanted at the information ling in. The man at the board gets|bureau." "Mr. Smith" hears and {the news from the signal towers by | heeds and hurries over. He is told to means of the telautograph and chalks call up his office. He does so and the up the information. An improvement | whole matter is arranged lo no time. {on this method has been devised and | In the temporary station many per- is being perfected so that It can be put 'sons are now being paged in in use later The apnouncements of pew station it is expected that the num- | train arrivals will be made on a board | ber will be much greater, This is sim- that has Numinated or movable let- ply one of the couveulences--the little ters These will be controlled from |details--whose sum total spells perfec- one. of the towers In the yard. In-itlou. | stantly, as soon as the switches are set | "G. C. T* | for an locoming train to end its jour- It has taken several years to decide ney on a certain track. the information|, . the color of the uniforms that shall will flash forth on the Lulletio board. |, worn by the employees in the new [This will save a few seconds and) ong Central terminal. The difficulty | there will be no possibility of error tiny in getting 8a color of 'cloth that The anvouncing of outgoing tralns| o .4 100k well and yet be conspicu- will be done, as it has been for some | = lous, yet not so striking as to subject time past in the temporary station, bY | its wearer to rdicule Many kinds | maguaphones. At a point a i Finally a blu- lear volced man speaks into the 11 and shades were tried. cles olce g speak ) e - " i 1 1e 10- | oh gray has been selected, The frock i ime roice, magni i f Srrun "ad is. voice. musyified in {cont has a black collar and black lapels. oinme, 4 Prod EN 8 ane p . | Bh 3 {On the lapels is the chief distinguish in every part of the wailing rooms 3 . pw from the trumpet-like horns that are | the letters "G. C. 1 in} ro In st-like hort 4 r : | 4 3 goid thread in a medallion bordered in | placed Inconspicuously against the the samie W These initials, it has y = 8, walle While the utility of this method le same Way. jase IN a » | been found from many tests, meet the depends, of course, on the clearness | instantly. In futore there can be with which the announcer speaks, ii oye a tants be - 9 ar for a stat f= far ahead of the old way of calling | £9 yu % 0 'i nr m is not quite the trains by a man walking about then emp ye Fg a rh dy) - © y station and making the announcements 3 n ' oe - 8) a Who Ate a i J ¥ yes Ww » - [The new way saves a good many that in winter those employee minutes. central ing mark, {exposed to the weather can wear a Paging Passengers: {eardigan jacket underneath without | ; Paging Passeng t y | Spoiling the looks or the neatness of the | | Ineidentally hie aya hg Sou { omifore. The "red cap" porters wiil j waves agate om 4 cunteal continue to wear their familiar bead- point will be used on even a larger|, ... poe they will be put in neat senile than ever before for "paging"! uniforms, persons. It happens frequently that a business house suddenly fads it pec i Station Men Are Schooled. the | city most unique conveniences will be a number of dressing rooms. If a comes to the city for a brief stay, can hire one of these rooms, take {essary to communicate with ose of| All the station men--the whole organ. ts representatives who has gone to | ization of the Grand Central terminal {that comes in contact with the public are being schooled and rehearsed in It is highly important | - getting ready their duties every day, ceive wdditional information or instrue- | for the openiog of the new tions. Perhaps a telegram has come in that renders his trip vonecessary If ®t were not for this device this table and a station sch would be impossible. As it is, how- | the track ever, the firm calls up the information [ally arrive bureau. A moment later the mechaal They study th bath, change his clothes, check {and go his way. {to depart he will not need to 3 | time In getting to his train. A station. | will be the finest restaurant io Even the-Jred eap" men participate in | terminal that is to be found in {the drills. New men are given a time | raliroad any question relating to the arrival and departure of regular trains. They are also instructed in their other ¢u- ties, keeping the train platforms cle of trucks and making the passenger: as comfortable as possible and so on Incidentally they are required to know the city's streets and transit lines as thoroughly as an experienced police man, so they can direct strangers quickly and accurately. Direct Subway Connections. The new station will have direct con nection with the subways, so that thi fucoming or outgoing passenger need not go into the street at all. To got to the temporary terminal that the ral} | road has been using in the interval be tween the demolition of the old ome and the fluishing of the new they have had to traverse a covered way. Im that portion of it leading from Forty second street to the entrance of the temporary station and waiting rooms & number of different kinds of pavement were installed a little more than a year ago in order to ascertain which would be the best to use In the most traveled passageways of the new terminal They were in sections the full width of the walk. This stretch of sidewalk Is trodden by more persons than any oth- er bit of sidewalk in the world. It is calculated that more than 100,000,000 persons have walked over these sample pavements since they were put in place. The public has tested them and thus has made easy for the experts the work of selection. Unusual Features. There are so many w and dod venient things In the /new terminal that the list of them' seems almost endless. opened In January next it will be one of the great show places of New From the moment it Is . York and one of the things in the worth seeing. One of 1 sebis i & When be Is abl station in the world. It edule covering be moderate in its charges, but in its ts and details it will equal | until they are able to answer instantly | N