. The railway terminal problem of Chicago; a series of addresses before the City club, June third to tenth, 1913, dealing with the proposed re-organization of the railway terminals of Chicago, including all terminal proposals now before the City council committee on railway terminals .. . in withthe general scheme of beautifying and developing the city. I have heard it said by many Chicagoans, that it is a benefit toChicago to hold up through passengers at its various railway stations,make them ride across the city at a cost of fifty cents, buy a meal atone of our restaurants, or stay a night
. The railway terminal problem of Chicago; a series of addresses before the City club, June third to tenth, 1913, dealing with the proposed re-organization of the railway terminals of Chicago, including all terminal proposals now before the City council committee on railway terminals .. . in withthe general scheme of beautifying and developing the city. I have heard it said by many Chicagoans, that it is a benefit toChicago to hold up through passengers at its various railway stations,make them ride across the city at a cost of fifty cents, buy a meal atone of our restaurants, or stay a night at one of our hotels! I dontbelieve that we have to develop our great city by preying on trav-elers. We ought, by co-ordinating our railway facilities, to maketravel through Chicago easy for the traveler instead of holding himup and subjecting him to all sorts of unnecessary we ought to make Chicago attractive enough in itself to makeit worth the while for the traveler to stop. I want to take up some of the architectural and structural fea-tures of our plan. In our scheme the elevated track-way will beentirely enclosed by commercial buildings and, therefore, will notbe in any way unsightly. Each one of the street intersections with 50 PROPOSAL OF POND AND POND. aiROlEVt VIEW or ONir OFT HE twoDOUBLE UNITJ OF the: PlVi£ TgRMINAL SCHEME FOCCHICAOO . PCOPOiEO sv POND<P0^D ATimrEaj. Plate BO. PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF PASSENGER TERMINAL PROPOSED BY MESSRS. POND AND POND our terminal may be made attractive and beautiful like the elevatedrailway terminals at Vienna and Dresden, shown in the Chicago Plan stationbook. The lower or suburban tracks cross the streets on a light canbeMadehanging structure with a reinforced concrete platform, and a crushed Attractivestone roadbed, so as to eliminate noise. The through traffic runs onan upper platform, carried by the heavy construction, gettingheight and breadth of architectural effect. The street crossings,too, are em
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