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THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1919. NEW HAVEN'S HOPE OF CENTURIES MAY BE REALIZED JULY 1 The New Railroad Station Is Now So Nearly Built That Even Some of the Older Inhabitants Are Coming to Believe They May See Its Completion The Freight Terminal at Cedar Hill to Be Largest in New England and Will Rank As One of the Great Freight Terminals of the Country. 4x1 i (Special to Tite Courant.) New Haven, April 19. TWO highly important railroad improveriientg ar? nearlng completion in this city. One is the station for which New Haveners have been waiting ever eo many years and the erection of which was made possible by a financial arrangement between the railroad company and a di.sting'uished citizen of Hartford, representing one of the large insurance companies centered there.

The othr is a mammoth freight classification yard, located just north of the ity and which is most commonly known as the Cedar Hill district. But a large part of the land taken by the railroad for this development is realty In the town of North Havn. This freight terminal, on which work hfis hf-en in progress for many months, will be the largest in New Kngland and win rank as one of the gr-at freight terminals of the country. Work on the yard was temporarily suspended a short time ago, but the financial plan adopted by th Bovernment toward the railroads will, it is expected, provide the fund for the resumption of work on this huge undertaking and carry it through to completion. No more rapid const ruction of a large structure has ever taken place In this city than on the railroad station.

In a few months from the time the foundation had been placed, the work had bef-n completed the Air Line and northbound paa-senger line to Springfield fi)d also over the tracks on which freight trains from New York and the Poughkeepsie bridge route enter tho yard. These track elevations and depressions, eliminating crossings at grade will make for safety and freedom of movement and are really one of the big construction features of thi great piece of railroad building. Practically all of the property needed for this improvement was bought some time ago. Work on the new yard has now been under way for about a year and a half and yards of sand have been moved. Four-miles of construction trestle has been built and twelve miles of track laid.

The north and the east hump Is now at final grade, scale pits, speeder tunnels, underpass and signal tower are practically completed. Work is now under way on the hump yardmaster's office and 1,200 feet of merchandise transfer platform. The store yard formerly adjacent to the Air Line tracks, just north of the roundhouse there, has been transferred to the new location at Monto-wese. Here the store yard has the Immense area of twenty-four acres. This removal allows the grading: for the New York and the Maybrook trains to be completed.

The Shore Line connection with the new yard has been in service for some time, by use of temporary connections and two new tracks have been built from a point near the Cedar Hill station to the Cedar Hill yards, as a part of the plan for the separation of grades. A coat storage plant with a capacity of 100,000 tons has been completed at Montowese, and coal is dally received QtnVArl tills wtniwst- i I llA i I i i I 4 receiving yard into which arriving trains will come. These tracks will eliminate the necessity of freight trains standing in the cut east and west of New Haven station. The other cluster of tracks will be known arf the classification section. There will be about twenty-five tracks in the--e-ast and northbound cluster and fifteen in the west and southbound cluster.

There will be short tracks into which cars will be delivered by cutting them off at the hump, at the apex of the yard. The cars will then drop into various tracks, for which they are intended, on the other side of the hump hy gravity. A switcher will move them up the hump. The switches on the other side will be arranged as needed and each car or more over the hump will slide over by its own momentum, into the position for which its destination calls. In the layout of this yard there is also what is called a departure section.

After the cars have been classified by their trip over the hump, they will be hauled into the departure yard, made up into trains, cabooses attached, inspection made and outbound record of car numbers and seals taken and the classified freight train Is ready to move. As a part of the great plan, additions will be made to the terminal tracks at the old Cedar Hill freight yard, which is no mean yard by the way, and a 16-stall roundhouse will be put up. Less than carload freight, a term which will be familiar to the shipper, will also be transferred in this yard. There will be room for between 300 and 350 cars at this merchandise transfer point, which will consist of large platforms. Motor trucks and trailers will carry the small shipments from one platform to another and by this it will be seen that not only freight in carload Jots will be classified, but that less than carload lots will be handled here.

For instance, three small lots, all bound for the same place, enter the yard in different cars. These lots will be taken from thog- THE NEW RAILROAD STATION AT NEW HAVEN. east bound will walk through classified, will be overcome by this a subway, so-ca'kd. which will carry arrangement and such overcrowding them under the west bound tiaeks and has been the main cause of restricting them up to the lung concourse tion and delay in freight movements where they will board cast and north on the New Haven system. quick lunch room where you give, jyour order and are served before you (have time to change your mind.

The 'unch room will face Union avenue and will be 24 by 6 feet. But this is to be a regular up-to-date station, so we are going to have a dining room on the second flour of the build- jing. Here will be a room that will rival those of modern hotels. It will be commodious, it will be substantially furnished, it will be made as cosy and as comfortable for the diners as experts in those things can make. Here will be where folks will go for a regular meal to be eaten in comfort and without thought of the train leaving in three minutes.

The kitchen from which service will be given to this dining room, will be adjacent to the dining room and will be a model of its kind. This dining parlor will be one of the attractive features of the building. Hut another novel wrinkle in the construction of the building is a room set apart at the west end of the station where a physician will have his office and where emergency cases will be treated by him. The baggage and telegraph rooms will be on the track side of the station and will occupy a space 25 by 64 feet. The baggage room here will be for checking purposes only.

The baggage room proper is to be located in an adjacent building, which, as stated, will be one of the additions to be erected at the ends of the present structure. The office of the station master will adjoin the telegraph office facing the tracks. The concourse will, of course, be on the track side of the building and will bo 15 by 25 feet. There will be elevators for freight and passenger i jr. 1 bound trains.

The general contractor in tharjte of the work is the Thumpson-Starrett Co. of No. 4 Wall street. New York, and the concern has been especially fortunate on this contract in that no labor troubles have occurred materially to check progress on the structure. The Yard.

In comparison with the character on this system long before the un-and the volume of business handled, precedented war conditions imposed the new classification yard at Cedar certain restrictions on the movement Hill wilt rank with the great rail-(f many commodities usually carried road yards of the country. The plana by railroad. for the yard were drawn ith the Despite all the money spent in this mta -'ik unu improving inejway me improvement was only tern-1 service on the New Haven so that porary. Finally the railroad people it will fully meet all demands of the decided that revolutionary methods will be as modern as engineers and artisans of all kinds can make it. It is of brick, as stated, four stories high, and is so constructed that additional stories can be added in the future.

ItcKun In 191 T. Poundinfi3 for the station began trt the spring of 1117. This part of the work took a little time, because, it should be understood, the land on which the depot has been placed is "made land" so-called. Years Rgu water covered this section of the city and extended up the little valley through what is now Commerce street to a point a mi le or more tow a rd the heart of the city. There was a boat landing, for instance, at a point near what is now the corner of (org and College streets, not far from the present Hotel Taft, which stands on the ppak of the ground rise, from the valley before referred to.

The first spadeful of narth was taken out of the ground by the company's engineers on April 17. 3917. The steel frame for the building was raised about September 1, IMS, and from that point on rapid progress has been made on the job. The great brick walls rose with unusual rapidity and New Haveners were given the impression that it would be only a matter of a few weeks before they would be using the new structure. Yet while the masonry was put through to a finish in a remarkably short time, the interior work will probably take as long again.

And it was a big job of brick laying on this station, too. It is 3 0 feet long and 90 feet wide, and if you don't know it, (he structure faces on Cnion avenue. The plana call for the laying of great platforms, hundreds of feet hng extending east and west from the station and there will be a great concourse and baggage building also extending beyond the main building as It is shown in the illustration. The Interior. Inside, in the center of the structure in Hi- main waiting room.

This room wi'l t.e SO by 13 feet and the ceiling will be just 12 feet from the floor and ine decoration of this room, while not to be elaborate, will be of harmonious and pleasing design and color. On the street side of the waiting room there will be several alcoves for telephone booths, news and cigar stands and cah and parcel checking stands. Tn addition to the main waiting room there will he two additional waiting rooms, each being L'4 by 32 feet. These will be on the street side of the building, also. At the west side of the building with an entrance from th main room, there will be a special waiting room for women to be 24 by 32 feet.

This room will be comfortably furnished for women and will provide quiet rest quarters. The men are not to he overlooked in the arrangement of the new station. They will have a smoking room 24 by IltlK also at the west end of the sta- the nelent Sundwleh Ileen Saved Now at the east end of the station there will be a lunch room, meaning YOUR Public High School should eon-taiu 400 words or less and the prizes will be as follows First Prize $25 Second Prize l. Third Prize 10 Essays from the grammar schools, public and Parochial, should contain 300 words or less. The following prizes are offered First Prize Second Prize 15 Third Prize 10 Fourth Prize 5 The rules of the contest are as follows 1 Write ledblv in ink.

As a means of offering temporary, relief in this yard, five new seventy ear tracks have been built adjacent to the Air Line tracks and near the location of the old store yard. These tracks are in service and are proving highly useful while the other worlc is In progress. The carrying out of this project during the season just prior to the virtual let up in the work, involved the operation of nine steam shovels, two spreaders, sixteen engines, 142 dump cars, eight pile drivers, five concrete mixers and 1,050 men. All of the work was planned under a definite program, which will allow the immediate use of such features of the work as they are completed from time to time. The entire project when completed will provide facilities for the prompt receipt of trains from all originating points, for complete classification of cars and the departure of trains for all important trnfllc centers.

The terminal Is laid out on plans for the future, but is being so carried out that only the parts needed now can be completed and put in use and that the additions required from tints to time in the future as the demands of traffic increase, can be made part of the plan as a whole. The classification yard will have a vital beneficial effect upon the efficiency of the service given by the New Haven road. It will mean the enlargement of the capacity of the road and the Improvement of the service of the company so that it will fully meet al! the demands of thn public and of the equally important business of the shippers of freight. AYS ford Public High School, and Judge Edward h. Smith, of the Common Pleas Court of Hartford.

In the meantime, the 1919 sales campaign for AVar Savings and Thrift Stamps is well underway in all the schools, and it is encouraging to note that there has Ibeen some increase in sales since "The Courant" contest started. The supervisors of Hartford held a meeting at the Heublein Hotel last Wednesday, and pledged their co-operation in carrying on a more intensive campaign in the primary schools. At the High School the campaign, is being conducted by the Student Council. Its members will canvass their own rooms and make weekly reports to a IN "COURANT" PRIZE THRIFT ESSAYS BYM cars and placed in the same car and scnt on to their destinations as one ar oa(j A distinctive feature of the plans for the new yard is the separation of grades at Air Line junction, just (north of the Cedar Hill station. This junction point has hitherto been a bad one for delaying trains.

The est bound Shore I Jne passenger trains will be carried overhead all tracks. The freight will pass underneath in the middle. The northbound passenger line, that is to Hartford and Springfield, will pass und rneath and around the east side of the yard. Under this arrangement through passenger and freight trains will not cross each other at grade, at any point in the vicinity of New Haven. In similar manner the freight tracks leaving the Shore Line east of the junction will be separated from the grade of the westbound passenger track.

Shore Line trains will also cross over, and above, the grade of to rewrite the essays already written and correct them as many times as necessary before handing them into the teacher for final submission to the judges. Commencing May 9, the judges will read the essays as rapidly as possible and as soon as they come to a decision, the prize winning manuscripts will be published in the "Sunday Courant." As soon as the decision is reached, payment will be made to the prize winners in War Savings Stamps or in cash as they prefer, and their photographs will be published in "The Courant." The judges will be Clifton L. Sherman, managing editor of the "Hartford Courant," Alfred N. Hitchcock, head of the department of English at the Hart 1f Freight jams at various points on the New Haven system occurred for years. Freight yards at the gateways and at numerous terminals within Connecticut and Massachusetts were built and then enlarged for many years, but as business grew the same old trouble arose and em bargoes were the order of the day of handling frieght in New England had to be evolved.

The Cedar Hill yard is the result. Trains now will be run straight through from their originating points to Cedar Hill. Here the cars will be sifted and shifted and sorted and from here they will be sent out again to the gateways, if westbound and to the minor terminals and freight yards if carrying goods consigned to New Kngland points. The new yard will be what rail- road men call the hump type, a type new to Now Kngland, but used to some extent in the west and, it is said, on the great Pennsylvania system. There will be two distinct sections of the yard, one for the east bound and northbound traffic and the other for the south and westbound traffic The first cluster of tracks will be the will he most successful if they confine themselves to narrative, preferably of personal experiences, rather than to argument or pure exposition.

Nevertheless, it is for the pupil to decide what his point of view shall be. Though the number of essays submitted to date has not been unduly large, teachers in the high school and in the various grade schools report that pupils in English composition are taking a real interest in the contest and that they expect to have a considerable number to turn over to the judges before May 8. The general disposition seems to be of present Policeman Mark Grady: Arthur MeLeod. retired: William F. Sedmond, deceased; John F.

and Peter A. Sullivan, twin brothers, deceased. First Row, left to rieht Frank H. Trask. resigned; S.

Herbert Peck, resigned: Justin Goodwill, retired; John O'Suliivan. deceased; Thomas J. Pillion: John hi Palmer, retired: John linen. William eltner, now lieutenant; Mitchel O. Leibcrt, Frank TWO AND A HALF WEEKS MORE IN WHICH TO WRITE THE ESSAYS IN COMPETITION FOR THE $100 IN PRIZES.

and New Havener, and visitors tn this city, can now see how the ex- terior of the building will look. That which appears as the station in the I picture will be enlarged by additions at the east and west ends for railroad 1 purposes. The public, however, is in- teiested more pa rticularly in that part which it will use and this part I is ing rushed to completion so that the squat, frame shed, now inad- I'quatfly serving as a station can be aba ndoncd as soon as possible. hen the ra ilroad sta ion will be finished and opened to public use is! still somewhat a matter of guess work. Within the week an official of the New Haven railroad told your correspondent lhat the original h-pe was to have it finished by July 1 of this year and white it may ntt he thrown open to the public at exactly that time, it will be long there- after that New Haveners will be able to point to their new depot with some show of ifl ble pride.

i ''ass Gilbert, the eminent New Yurk architect, drew the plans for this station which, it must be remembered, wss a compromise proposition. Civic organizations in New Haven were pressing the railroad hard to build a new depot. The company hsd plans prepared for a beautiful and imposing granit structure to met upwards of OftO. but it lacked the funds to go through "with the work. When the, pressure boi-ame so ureat as not to be withstood, the company made arrangements to borrow money through the influence of linn.

Morgan O. I'ulkeley of Hartford, so it was commonly staled at the time. Having oh! a inert this money the company hereupon altered its plans and started work a brick building with terra cotta trim which, by the way, a accepted ns satisfactory by the si at ton booster? in Hi is town. The. present depot is a tittle less ornate than that planned hy the company at first but it is a first rate structure find its interior and equipment HAND U'TMI1': COT KANT" huii-J dml dollar prize contest for tlie Ix'st essay in the schools in Iliirtfonl on the subject of Thrift Slumps has run half its course.

The date for lite close of the contest is May 8. That means that competitors have only two and a half weeks more in which to complete their work. 'There is still time, however, for pupils who have not thought of competing to write essays which may possibly win a pri.e. For the benefit of such pupils "The deems it advisable to (five space today to a repetition of the terms of the contest. Kssavs from the Hartford -5 This photograph of tlie Hartford Police Departmint was taUfn In the year the new poltce hoad'iuartt rs bii.tiing- on Market street was Nearly all the men in tho department at that time were in the pit ture.

'Hit picture was revnUy prefenied i Mutual Aid by 'I'liee Lieutenant William ltner I I business at each end of the building. The third and fourth floors of the building are laid out for office purposes. At the present time many offices of the railroad company are located in buildings in the center of the city. For instance there is a large brick building in old Union avenue, formerly occupied by the Connecticut company which is now used by the steam railroad. The railroad company also leases a large part of a business block in Crown street where another department in which many girls are employed, Is located.

The two upper floors of the new station building will not, however, supply sufficient room fur the housing of all the railroad people now quartered in leased accommodations. It is the hope of the managers of the railroad that some day they may have money enough to add sufficient floor space to this depot building to bring all of their working staff, not in the "yellow" building and the old office in Water street, under one roof and that roof the roof of the new station. It may not be so many years before this is done, for the dream of a ten-story building on the site may yet come true. Taken all In all this station is pleasing to the eye and it makes an equally good impression from either the street side or the track side. In connection with the opening of the station the track work involved is also finished.

Passenger trains have for a long time been using practically the same rails they will use when the new station Is thrown open, so there remains but little of this part of the great change to be completed. Persons leaving the station to board should "be thoughtful, original, forceful, grammatical and neat. The following are suggested as possible angles from which to approach the question, though the competitor is not obliged to confine himself to these Jopies and will please the judges if he can think of a better one of his own "Sacrifices I Have Made to Buy Thrift Stamps." "What I Intend to Do With the Money I Save in Thrift Stamps." George P. Harvey, retired: Michael GatTey. deceased: Mathew Fdcan i oldest man in point of service, still on the job: James K.

Hennessey, retired; errance Prazel. appointed traffic lieutenant this Marshall, deceased: Kdward Dillon! ar-eeasea: i-harles Mantie. deceased se, end How. left to right Thomas hitehead, now a sergeant Charles H. Kussell.

Thomas i traveling puonc ana the commercial interests of the territory it serves, The road will be able to handle the peak load of freight traffic without delay or congestion, for this yard will relieve main terminals of much of their present burden. The essential purpose of this huge undertaking is to receive trains from all routes entering New Haven, said trains made up of cars destined to all points on the New Haven ra ilroad. In this yard the cars will be sorted out and made up into trains for their destinations. All trains i will leave this yard in station order for all the important destinations, Many of them will, of ccurse, be made up as through express trains for the more important commercial centers. Overcrowding at the road's gateways, and at terminals where cars have heretofore been shifted and "How I Earned Money to Buy Thrift Stamps." "Why I Was Able to Sell So Many Thrift Stamps." "The Thrift Stamp As a Character Builder." "The Thrift Stamp As An Educational Factor." "The Thrift Stamp As a Factor in Americanization." "The Thrift Stamp As a Key to Happiness." The judges believe that pupils P.

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Moran, deceased: Charles A. Schiller, retired: John O'Malley, Kdwin John-j son. deceased: Joseph Graff, now a street sergeant; Charles H. I.loyd, re-I tired; John J. Hums, deceased; "Wil- liam Tobin, deceased; James Havens.

Mark Grady, deceased, father i Hartford's Finest Way Back in '98 When Mustaches Were the Thing and Rubber Heels Were Still Unknown 2 Use one side of the paper only. 3 Do not fold or roll your manuscript, but submit it to your teacher flat with the pages firmly fastened together. 4 Be, sure that your name, your school, your class, your grade or room, and your home address appear on the first page of your manuscript. It makes no difference what phase of the Thrift Stamp movement is selected; the important consideration is that an essav T. I.oft'.

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I Daniel T. Molloy. Hograboom, James Morgan, not now Seated, left to right Sergeant John in department; Edward English. John I F. Butler, now captain: Sergeant P.

Flynn, Patrick I. Finley. now desk i James P. Carter, retired; Captain sergeant; Charles F. Nichols, de-- Cornelius Ryan, later chief, deceased; ceased; James Maloney, deceased Chief George F.

Bill, deceased; Lieu-Felix Quinn. now desk sergeant; Ed- tenant William F. Gunn, later cap-ward H. Costello, deceased; James V. I tain and then chief, deceased; Sei Lally.

deceased; James D. Flynn; Wil- geant Kurton 1 I mberfleld. deceased; liam C. Steele, the "drum major." re-! Sergeant John Creedon, retired..