. Book of the Royal blue . GATE TO TRAIN SHEDS THE INTERIOR OF THE NEW UNION STATION AT WASHINGTON. WOMENS WAITING-ROOM barber shop, smoking-room and telephoneand telegraph booths. To the right of theticket lobby is the information bureau. The great concourse or lobby e.\-ceeds anything ever built for a similarpurpose. It is seven hundred andsixty 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
. Book of the Royal blue . GATE TO TRAIN SHEDS THE INTERIOR OF THE NEW UNION STATION AT WASHINGTON. WOMENS WAITING-ROOM barber shop, smoking-room and telephoneand telegraph booths. To the right of theticket lobby is the information bureau. The great concourse or lobby e.\-ceeds anything ever built for a similarpurpose. It is seven hundred andsixty 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 beaccommodated therein at one 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 departureand all the principal cities reached by it. It is worked by electricity, and is absolutelyclear and understandable to a passen-ger and can be read many feet train yard opposite the con-cour
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