. Book of the Royal blue . ATE TO TRAIN SHEDS THE IXTERIOR OF THE NEW UNION STATION AT WASHINGTON 1. barber shop, smoking-room and teleand telegraph booths. To the right (ticket lobby is the information bureau. The great concourse or lobby ex-ceeds anything ever built for a similarpurpose. It is seven hundred amisixty feet long by one hundred andthirty feet wide and covered by anarched ceiling in a single span, dec-orated with panels, a part of whichtransmits the light. So large is the area of the con-course that it is said the entire stand-ing army of the United States can heaccommodated ther
. Book of the Royal blue . ATE TO TRAIN SHEDS THE IXTERIOR OF THE NEW UNION STATION AT WASHINGTON 1. barber shop, smoking-room and teleand telegraph booths. To the right (ticket lobby is the information bureau. The great concourse or lobby ex-ceeds anything ever built for a similarpurpose. It is seven hundred amisixty feet long by one hundred andthirty feet wide and covered by anarched ceiling in a single span, dec-orated with panels, a part of whichtransmits the light. So large is the area of the con-course that it is said the entire stand-ing army of the United States can heaccommodated therein at one timeThe concourse is separated from theumbrella sheds and tracks by anartistic iron fence with gates oppositeeach platform. These gates are sup-plied with automatic devices, show-ing the name of the railroad, numberand name of the train, its time of depand all the principal cities reached by it. phonenf the worked by electricity, and is absolutelyclear and understandable to a passen-ger and can be read many feet train yard opposite the con-course is seven hundred and sixtyfee
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