. The street railway review . 74 ft. on Broadway and 45 ft. on Columbia St. It has a basement,two stories and a loft under the roof, and is as near fire-proof asmodern architecture can make it. The only wood employed in itsconstruction is for doors, window frames and the decorative wains-coting in the directors room, all other material being stone, brick,mosaics or marble. The walls arc of gray brick and Indiana lime stone, with exterior decorations of columns and bas-relief building is entered from Broadway through an arch outer vestibule is wainscoted to a height of 10
. The street railway review . 74 ft. on Broadway and 45 ft. on Columbia St. It has a basement,two stories and a loft under the roof, and is as near fire-proof asmodern architecture can make it. The only wood employed in itsconstruction is for doors, window frames and the decorative wains-coting in the directors room, all other material being stone, brick,mosaics or marble. The walls arc of gray brick and Indiana lime stone, with exterior decorations of columns and bas-relief building is entered from Broadway through an arch outer vestibule is wainscoted to a height of 10 ft. fromthe floor with polished red marble and has a highly decoratedvaulted ceiling. This vestibule opens into an atrium or centralcorridor formed of four large archways. The atrium is wainscotedto a height of 10 ft. from the floor in light green polished entrance takes up one 01 the archways; the two archways at. the sides open upon the two large rooms of the first story, whilethe one opposite the entrance is filled by the marble stairs leadingto the second story. The atrium is roofed with a dome, the piers which support theceiling forming convenient chambers for the electric conduits,plumbing pipes, ventilating flues, warm air flues, etc. Thesechambers are open to the basement at the bottom and are largeenough to permit the passage of a man, so that all pipes, etc., caribe easily reached. At the same time no pipe or flue is visiblethroughout the building. The large room at the right of the atrium is used by the statis-tician and his clerks, whose offices are in the front of the build-ing, while the rear half is devoted to the lost article the two is a vault and the bank counter restricting thepublic to the small lobby. Behind and under the platform of themain stairs is a passage which permits the clerks to pass fromone side of the building to the other without going through
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