. The Street railway journal . GENERAL INTERIOR VIEW 768 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 17. is about 9 ft. wide. To the west of the building is a paveddriveway 20 ft. wide for teams. The freight shed properis one-story high and is built of hard brick, while the officebuilding in front is two stories high, and is built of pressedbrick with sandstone trimmings. It has an ornamental frontand is built in the most substantial manner. As shown in theplan, the greater portion of the ground floor of the office build-ing is utilized as the agents receiving room. A corner is allot-ted to the ag
. The Street railway journal . GENERAL INTERIOR VIEW 768 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 17. is about 9 ft. wide. To the west of the building is a paveddriveway 20 ft. wide for teams. The freight shed properis one-story high and is built of hard brick, while the officebuilding in front is two stories high, and is built of pressedbrick with sandstone trimmings. It has an ornamental frontand is built in the most substantial manner. As shown in theplan, the greater portion of the ground floor of the office build-ing is utilized as the agents receiving room. A corner is allot-ted to the agent in charge of the station, which is fitted up asheadquarters, and there is a desk for the cashier. The secondfloor is divided into three rooms, two of which are for thebookkeepers, stenographers and auditor, and the third is a large. EXPRESS CAR ON LAKE SHORE ELECTRIC private office for the superintendentof the package company. The in-terior finish is Georgia pine, and thegeneral appointments, while notelaborate, are neat and office building has a basementin which is built a furnace for heat-ing. The express shed proper is long by ft. wide. The endadjoining the office building isfenced off, forming a baggage room25 ft. long. This is provided with acounter and shelves for packages;also racks for bicycles, which arehandled as baggage under a Statelaw. This room may be reachedwithout entering the main expressroom, and there is a separate doorfrom the driveway for deliveringbaggage into the baggage room. Thesouth end of the building is par-titioned off as a supply room and old hoss room, theappellation given unclaimed express and baggage, which,by the way, accumulates rapidly. Adjoining this roomare a number of lockers for drivers and other express room proper is nearly 200
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