People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1897 — BOMBAY’S STATION [ARTICLE]

BOMBAY’S STATION

The Plague Stricken City Has the Finest Railroad Terminal In the World. Bombay has the grandest railroad station in the world and the grandest modern architectural work in India in the Peninsular Railway Victoria Terminal building, which was named on jubilee day in honor of the empress of India. The execution of the work occupied ten years, and the cost is estimated at $lB,900,000. The total length of the principal elevation is over 1,500 feet. The Style is Venetian Gothic, with oriental modifications. The principal feature of the edifice is the large central octagonal dome of solid cut masonry, which has a very fine effect and may be seen from any part of the city. The figure crowning the apex of the dome is a stone statue of ‘ ‘ Progress. ’ . Many other colossal statues, including those of the Empress Victosja, ‘■Commerce,” ‘‘Science,” “Trade,” “ Engineering,” etc., adorn the principal gables. The interior has been most skillfully arranged and is fitted up with marble, granite and fine woods. Much of the interior decoration has been done by native 1 • ivorkmen. The statue of Queen Victoria in the station was the one which was covered with tar in December last by natives, who. according to the letter from Bombay published on Friday last, are fleeing from Bombay and the authorities, whom they (the natives) think are anxious to secure the lives of 10,000 people for the recent outrage on the queen’s statue. They seriously believe that 10,000 innocents are to be slaughtered and are determined not to be among the number of victims; hence they are hurrying to catch the steamer.—New York Herald.