. Report of the Committee on Improving and Beautifying Utica of the Utica Chamber of Commerce . et from the bridge. If Baggs Square as a whole were reconstructed at a higherlevel as suggested above, both G-enesee Street and John Streetwould lead straight up the slope and over the tracks withoutobstruction, and the width of Baggs Square would afford a fairamount of room for the traffic of Main Street and WhitesboroStreet to make the necessary turns. The next matter that suggests itself, is the relation ofthe railroad station to such an improved Baggs Square. Theexisting Utica Station is confess
. Report of the Committee on Improving and Beautifying Utica of the Utica Chamber of Commerce . et from the bridge. If Baggs Square as a whole were reconstructed at a higherlevel as suggested above, both G-enesee Street and John Streetwould lead straight up the slope and over the tracks withoutobstruction, and the width of Baggs Square would afford a fairamount of room for the traffic of Main Street and WhitesboroStreet to make the necessary turns. The next matter that suggests itself, is the relation ofthe railroad station to such an improved Baggs Square. Theexisting Utica Station is confessedly a kind of back-door en-trance; but the present plan is to build a new and excellentstation, as good as that at Albany I am told, from whichthe approach to the city must be by the same back-door million dollar court-house is now being hidden away in a back-yard, so to speak, where its elaborate and costly architecturewill be enjoyed by the smallest possible fraction of the tax-payers who are footing the bills; and so it is proposed to followthe same principle with the 25 The advantage of placing the main entrance to the stationon Baggs Square right at the foot of Genesee Street are tooobvious to require emphasis. It would make the difference be-tween entering the city by a front-door instead of a back-door,and if this station entrance were to be placed, as it could be,directly on the axis of Genesee Street, the net result of thegrade crossing elimination, so far from being a blot, would bea strikingly handsome improvement. There are serious complications, from a railroad point ofview, controlling the location of the platforms and suggestingobjections to any plan for moving the main body of the stationmuch further west than it now is; but even if these objectionscould not be overcome it would still remain feasible and emi-nently desirable to provide an architecturally dignified entranceto the station in the position suggested. The accompanying plan illust
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