. Electric railway journal . ourse, is free from tracks and contains the showroomsof the Public Service Gas Company and Public ServiceElectric Company, checking booth, newsstands, etc. Above the elevated train floor are six office floors forthe use of the Public Service Corporation and of thesubsidiary companies which comprise it. Each officefloor has an area of 30,000 ft. These floors are of arather irregular form, due in part to the shape of theplot of ground, which is completely covered by theground floor, and partly by the desire to secure perfectlighting of the rooms. •The following refer
. Electric railway journal . ourse, is free from tracks and contains the showroomsof the Public Service Gas Company and Public ServiceElectric Company, checking booth, newsstands, etc. Above the elevated train floor are six office floors forthe use of the Public Service Corporation and of thesubsidiary companies which comprise it. Each officefloor has an area of 30,000 ft. These floors are of arather irregular form, due in part to the shape of theplot of ground, which is completely covered by theground floor, and partly by the desire to secure perfectlighting of the rooms. •The following references cover in detail the history of theterminal project: Electric Railway Journal, Vol. 41, 1913, , page 223 ; Feb. 8, page 246 ; April 26, page 77 ; Mav 17, page904 ; June 28, page 1173 ; Vol. 42, 1913, Julv 26, page 127 ; , page 992 ; Vol. 43, March 28, 1914, page 740 ; Vol. 44, 1914, July25, page 180 ; Sept. 5, page 454 : Nov. 28, page 1190 ; Vol. 45, April24, 1915, page 793; Vol. 46, July 24, 1915, page PUBLIC SERVICE TERMINAL, NEWARK, N. J. SECTIONAL VIEW OF CONCOURSE AND ELEVATED TRAIN FLOOR In considering this terminal and the rerouteing ofwhich it forms a part, the peculiar situation of Newarkwith respect to the surrounding towns must be kept inmind. All of this part of New Jersey is almost con-tinuously built up. Thus while the population of thecity itself is but about 400,000, there is a surroundingpopulation sufficient to give a total greater than thatof Cleveland, if an equal area was covered within thecity limits. These surrounding cities are connectedwith the new terminal by ten lines. It is to accommo-date the traffic to and from these outlying points andto prevent interference between it and the local trafficthat the terminal undertaking has been carried out. Statistics of the Imperial Russian Technical So-ciety show the available water power in EuropeanRussia, including Finland, the Urals and Caucasia, tobe, roughly, 30,000,000 hp. The potent
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