St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 62

Cincinnati's New It i Union Station -Hi, An Adventure in Modern Design yards. Roundhouse and turntable in 1 Ik Opening of New $41,000,000 Terminal Tim hi Structure Celebrated by Ohio City. most impressive and up-to-date rail are owned by the terminal company Arrangement of tracks and accessory buildings is entirely in line with the efficiency motif that characterizes the main terminal building. In order to prevent congestion on the train platforms, the handling of mail and express packages has been provided for elsewhere. The mail and express cars Union Terminal Building of Cincinnati, as seen from the plaza.

are cut out of trains coming into the usual stairways. The waiting room, 80 feet wide and 500 feet long, is entered from the right covered wing, the left wing being the exit. In the rear of the station are eight train platforms which afford access to 16 tracks, with a possible expansion for the future to allow for 22 tracks. These platforms are covered by canopies and are, on the average, 21 feet wide and 1600 feet long. Access is gained by ramps leading from the main concourse.

Baggage is" taken from the platforms by truck. Decorations in the new station are more like those of a State Capitol building than the usual passenger terminal. All of these have not yet been completed, but provision is made for panels in the concourse depicting the industries of Cincinnati and their history. There are murals showing the development of transportation, particularly as applied to this city. The furniture and equipment has been chosen with an eye both to efficiency and artistic appearance.

By a Special Correspondent of the Pott-Dispatch Sunday Magazine CINCINNATI. Ohio. INCINNATI held open house and entertained the neighbors from three states, the other day, in celebration of the opening of the new Union Terminal, which has been in process of con-1929. The city, the Chamber The power-plant connected with xr the Terminal. way station to be found anywhere In the world today.

Unlike the new Cleveland and Philadelphia union stations, which are of the office building type, the Cincinnati-structure Is strictly a passenger station designed to meet that purpose and no other with the maximum of efficiency and beauty. Fellheimer Wagner of New York were the architects. The central unit is a massive domed structure of white stone which dominates the Millcreek section of the city, supplanting some 276 more or less unsightly buildings which formerly occupied the site now given "over to the terminal and its railroad yards. The dome, glistening in the early spring sunshine, rises to a height of 120 feet. An arch, with a span of 180 feet, loops across the front, attaining a height almost as great as that of the dome itself.

On both sides of the central unit, north and south, are symmetrical wings which give the whole terminal building a front 550 feet wide. A very efficient system of traffic regulation has been incorporated in the new project. Street cars, taxi-cabs and buses have separate lanes under the main concourse, while private automobile will gain access to the fetation at the plaza entrance. The movement of all these vehicles is circulatory and in the same direction so that there is no r. IL atructlon since August Terminal Company and of Commerce, the Cincinnati station and shifted to tracks a quarter of a mile north.

For the express handling there are seven platforms These connect with a 2-story express building which is 70 feet wide and 740 feet long. The structure is built of steel, concrete and brick and is fireproof. The platforms are of concrete and are covered by steel canopies. For the mail there is a three-story building 160 feet wide and 170 feet long. Structurally, it is very much like the express building, but it equipped with mechanical conveyor? which carry mail bags from the six platforms to the sorting rooms.

From these, other conveyors carry the bags across Dalton avenue to the new sub-postoffice which the Government is building. In addition to the mail and express facilities there are several buildings to house equipment. The engine house, which takes care of 218 locomotives a day, is equipped with two turntables and has a special construction feature which permits "direct steaming'' for these locomotives while they are stand seven railroads which are served by the new station pooled 7 fitfl II II IJ Mil" their efforts to make the occasion a gala one and were pretty well satisfied with results. It was not alone the general public's response that was gratifying to the officials. The extraordinary attention which the terminal received from transportation experts all over the nation served to reinforce the local conviction that both from architectural and utilitarian viewpoints Cincinnati has the A DRUG store, a beauty parlor, barber shop, haberdashery and gift shop are among the ap UNDER SENTENCE con gestion of traffic.

The passengers from the various conveyances walk to the main concourse by ramps instead of the OF DEATH purtenances for the accommodation of passengers. There is also a small hospital for passengers who become ill on their journey and there is a motion picture theater for those who have to wait between trains. Besides these, there are, of course, the usual items, such as restaurant, lunchroom and soda fountain. The new terminal is designed to accommodate movement of 17,000 passengers a day and can handle 230 trains a day on the 16 tracks which now come in to the platforms. The seven railroads using the facilities are the Pennsylvania.

Baltimore Ohio, Big Four, Chesapeake Ohio, Louisville Nashville, the Southern and the Norfolk Western. The entire project Including the station, tracks, engine terminal, roundhouse, coach yard, mail and express tracks and facilities, power house and service building, represents an investment of $41,000,000, of which $11,000,000 is for right-of-way alone. The terminal building proper cost $8,000,000. ing. This is done to avoid the smoke nuisance so common in railroad yards, where the locomotives stand in the open waiting their turn to take trains out.

This direct steaming necessitates a relatively large boiler capacity and for this there is a power house approximately 60 feet by 220 feet and having a stack 250 feet high. The equipment terminal is arranged for doing light repairs to locomotives and machinery and tools for this purpose are ready for service men. Ml FOR 24 YEARS New Jersey's Forgotten Prisoner Who Can't Be Executed and Can't Be Freed. THiLE the water for th- motives and boiler purposes is purchased from the cin. it is Archibald Herron.

By RUTH ARELL A Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch Sunday Magazine TRENTON. New Jersey. necessary to have this water spciai'v treated and a treating plant has been installed, together with a water tank with a capacity of 300,000 galior.s The other structures include service building, to accommodate sectors, car washerB, local foren and mechanics in connection wit'. coach yard and machine shop, a i-ing for the. enginemen and making plant.

During construction of the tei i.fcl it was necessary to provide a city traffic to get across the means other than dangerous an ficult grade crossings. Consid i-le study of this problem resulted Situated about three-quarters of a mile west of the old Central Union Depot, the new terminal, although in the Millcreek valley through which the railroads gain access to the city, is on an elevation which is higher than the highest flood mark ever attained by the Ohio River and there is believed to be little danger nf inundation even though flood waters do invade the valley at times and "Someone else must have done it," Archie answered, "Someone in Metuchen. Have you found him yet?" "Do you think you should be freed?" was another question put to him. "Sure, I think it's fine here. Don't bother me.

Don't you know I'm innocent?" H8 the somewhat jumbled response. The findings of this examination and three others set down Herron as not being too bright, but also pronounced him far from Insane. In July, 1909. Judge Bergen remanded the prisoner to his cell until further notice. O.

15,500 in the State prison here is a modern prisoner of Chillon. a living embodiment of Lord Byron's hero of the poem by that name. Sentenced to death 24 years ago. Lhe rn fctructlon of the Western Hill? duct, the Sixth street viaduct at Gest street underpasses. The Hills viaduct, which unites ern Hills with Cincinnati prop, a double deck structure 3500 f-length, made of reinforced cov.

and encased steel. The upper which extends from the Central way to Harrison avenue, crossing UDGE BERGEN died in 1923 and the case was still not concluded. might act as a corrective and bring the man to bis senses, the Judge gave him a light sentence. But far from accepting this censure in the spirit in which it was meant, the 40-year-old culprit brooded over it. and finally came to the conclusion that he was being treated very badly.

Only revenge on the man who had sent him to jail could make him feel better. When he was released, he lost no time in calling ou the Rev. Prickett. He shot him down in cold blood. The Judge died instantly.

Herron ran away but was caught. He was tiled before Judge James J. Bergen of Middlesex County and sentenced to pay the death penalty. And from that day to this, his history is a story of deferred payment. Two months before the date of execution.

Herron's lawyer got a stay on a writ of error. Ultimately, the writ was dismissed and the week of January 25, 1909, was set ap the date for electrocution. But the legal see-saw was not yet over. Two reprieves were obtained, and finally March 30th was set for the execution. Herron's attorneys, however, were very much awake at the switch, and succeeded In bringing about an eleventh hour postponement by arranging for a mental examination of the doomed man.

Here again a lot of time was taken up in 'questioning the defendant and submitting him to all manner of tests and examinations. "Why did you shoot Prickett?" one alienist asked. According to New Jersey law. an Archibald Herron still lives. By an odd quirk in the law.

the date of his execution can never be set. and nothing but death from natural causes can give him the release the courts are poweiless to offer him. But like the "Prisoner of Chillon." he is happy and contented with the lot that fate has picked for him. resisting all ef-torta to obtain a pardou. Ht-rron was born in Ireland and came to the United States in 18 74.

He married, had two children. r-rled with his wife and was di voiced by her. A few years later he married a second time and settled in Me-tuchen. N. J.

For quite a while his neighbors had noticed that his behavior at times was. to put It mildl, quite eccentric. One of these neighbors, the IUv. R. D.

Trickett. tried to get him to mend his ways. Early in the year 1908 Herron was arrested for drunkenness and dls-ordeily conduct. Now in addition to being a minister, the Rev. Trickett was also the I'olice Judge at Metuchen.

so Archie was biounht before hlni. Thinking that a short terra iu jail i'aaf Fnttr. cover large areas. The entire terminal property comprises 287 acres, of which 4 5 acres are given over to the passenger station and yards. 69 acres to the engine terminal and coach yards and 16 acres to mail and express facilities.

There is a total of 94 miles of track 53 for the terminal company and 41 for the participating railroads. Concrete used in the buildings, bridge and viaducts totals 223.000 cubic yards and steel approximately 50.000 tons. Filling and grading done in leveling the tract and insuring the site against Ohio River floods involved handling of some 5,500,000 cubic yards of earth. Of this. 4.250.000 cubic yards came from "Bald Knob." a 65-acre borrow pit adjacent to the site, and the remainder, comprising selected material for special filling was obtained from a sand and gravel pit 16 miles away.

Both "Raid Knob" and the gravel pit. which cover? 133 acres execution could not be carried out unless the same Judge who presided at the trial set the date of execution. The statute has since been changed, but it could not be made retroactive. Thus. Herron could not be executed, and he could not be freed.

He has long since been moved out of the death cell, to a central cell block which offers him' closer contact with the other prisoners, but he prefers the isolation of his dungeon. When a new wing was added to the prison. Colonel Edward Stone, warden of the prison, asked him if he wanted a better location. "How about a nice cell in the new wing. Archie?" he asked.

"No. What do you want to move me (f'owlnded on Page 7.) the Terminal Company's tracks, t1 O. tracks, Millcreek and the C. D. Railro.id, has a roadway 4" in width with two sidewalks each -leet wide.

This portion is used ir automobiles and-vehicular travel -t than trucks and street railway lower level will carry the tru r.s and street cars. This has a widii. of 4 0 feet with two tracks but no provision is made for pedestrians. At the western end a wide pu- is constructed. This is designed to separate and distribute ihe classes of trafllc coming from levels and permit vehicle to tut'" In any direction without ii with one another.

Warden Edward Stone. Sun da a Maaazim St. ran I Pot-Mpaich April f. 1.