Review of reviews and world's work . o completion. There arestill only four tracks through the tunnel, butfrom the southern entrance these four tracks,on one level, spread out horizontally and per-pendii ularly to sixty-seven tracks on two lev-This arrangement doubles the utility of thefour tra> The new terminal building itself will havefour levels. The passenger gallery on thegrade of Forty-sei ond street will be the top oneThe Com OUrse of arrival and departure will bethe next lower. This will contain forty-twotrai that will handle the through trains andwill conned directly with the [
Review of reviews and world's work . o completion. There arestill only four tracks through the tunnel, butfrom the southern entrance these four tracks,on one level, spread out horizontally and per-pendii ularly to sixty-seven tracks on two lev-This arrangement doubles the utility of thefour tra> The new terminal building itself will havefour levels. The passenger gallery on thegrade of Forty-sei ond street will be the top oneThe Com OUrse of arrival and departure will bethe next lower. This will contain forty-twotrai that will handle the through trains andwill conned directly with the [nterboroughsubway lines. e Bubfor handling the I At this lowesl to thetunnel under ihc I last K of the 1 (] I tralwill be th< 11 built hem ill be I 1 m ition, the prim . the• ihrou 440 JUL AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. i*i~ *fi i--*^m+M f»Aj»i u9o» THE NEW GRAND CENTRAL. NEW YORKS GREATEST TRAFFIC CENTERi From this may be seen the different track levels and the converging lines of local tnu Each will be on the level of the track it servesand quite distant from the other, with separateticket offices, entrances and exits. It is pre-dicted that nearly people can gather inthe waiting-rooms, and on the platforms ofthese enormous stations, without crowding oneanother. The essence of the idea oi the archi--, we are told, was that John Smith orMary Jones, who have never been in New Yorkbefore, can arrive at the Grand Central ter-minal and pass through it to where he or sheis going with the Least possible confusion andwith the utmost tranquillity and peaceof most noteworthy thing about the altera-tions at the great New York Central yards isthe fact that they were carried on without stop-ping or seriously delaying the movement ofapproximately passengers a month. A M w Kc\i> FOB
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