. Railway age . n Socialist, the Abb6 llaens, movedthat the minlniiini daily pay of an employee in the state railroad. Stations, Express Building and Passenger Subway at Attleboro. last year. The stations are between Mill and South Mainstreets, which the railroad crosses on granite arch bridges. Thetwo stations will be connected by a concrete passenger tunnel underthe tracks. At this point the road is on an earth fill so deep thatconcrete foundations for the stations were necessary, and In thesouthbound station advantage is taken of this situation tomake a lower story, which is to be used for
. Railway age . n Socialist, the Abb6 llaens, movedthat the minlniiini daily pay of an employee in the state railroad. Stations, Express Building and Passenger Subway at Attleboro. last year. The stations are between Mill and South Mainstreets, which the railroad crosses on granite arch bridges. Thetwo stations will be connected by a concrete passenger tunnel underthe tracks. At this point the road is on an earth fill so deep thatconcrete foundations for the stations were necessary, and In thesouthbound station advantage is taken of this situation tomake a lower story, which is to be used for express. An elevatoris to be installed to handle loaded trucks of express matter betweenthe delivery floor and the track level. Temporary wooden platformswere laid, as If was not thought best to build concrete platformsuntil the earth had entirely settled. The lower walls of the south-bound station are of granite masonry, harmonizing with the stonearch bridges and the retaining walls. The upper walls of this sU-. North Bound Station at Attleboro, Mass.; New York, New Haven A. Hartford. postofflce and telegraph service .should nut bo loss than ;i francs tlon and of the northbound station are of red brick with white (58 centsl, he objected. nlllrmInK that the working expenses of the Joints and trimmings of granite and concrete. Both stations and railroads had already Increased seriously. The mover of the reso- sheds are roofed with red Spanish tile. The interior of the walt- lutlon suld that at one stnllon laborers were offered only 47 cents Ing rooms, toilet rooms and ticket offices are plastered, and finished a day; and another deputy ntflrmed that there were employees re- In chestnut, stained dark brown. The other rooms are sheathed celving only 58 cents a day after 23 years service. with varnished North Carolina .vellow pine. An unusual feaiure February 14. 1908. THE RAILROAD GAZETTE. 217
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