Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — ST. LOUIS' NEW STATION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ST. LOUIS' NEW STATION.

Tbe Moat Beautiful Railway Building In the Country. Probably the most costly railway station in the country is that which has been lately built at St. Louis. It is the largest station in the world. The train shed covers 424,200 s.ua e feet of ground: there are 30 tracks capable of h Iding 100 cars under shelter and the whole place is illuminated by 126 arc lights. The station building proper covers an area of 8,806 square feet This station has the further di-tinc-tion of being the most beautiful In the country. The floors are for the mst

part composed of mosaic bricks imported from Holland, and ornamented with fleur-de-lis or some such dainty design. The sides are either of enameled brick, scagliola or tiling. The ceilings are usually ornamented by some graceful design or other, a wreath of roses or a group cf cherubi. In fact, the ornamentation, under the direction of J. D. Millet, whose work at the fair was so highly praised, has 1 ut served to emphasize more strongly the talents ot this artist In the rotunda ornamentation is at Its height. At each end, grouped in the form of a semi-circle, a> e seven

naiac-’ike figures, delicately interwoven with the design, whose extended arms bear torches glowing with ornamental electric lights. Along the south side, high from the ground, extend seven large staized-glass windows that, esjiecial'y in the late afternoon, cast a mild orange light over the hall, harmonizing perfectly with the other ornamentation, and imparting a delicate richness of effect that one might expect to find in an eastern mosque,

but not in the railway station of an American city.

NEW UNION STATION AT ST. LOUIS.

THE NORTH ARCADES. GRAND HALL

LADIES’ WAITING-ROOM. FROM GRAND HALL.