SKYSCRAPER FOR STATION.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 8 June 1925, Page 10

SKYSCRAPER FOR STATION.

Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., will bft tb» homo of tho world's third highest sine*' .turc. The new Union Station-on-tbe-Square will rise 50 stories high, and tW cap of the tower will be 708 ft above th» ground. When completed, in 1928, tin. station will be only a trifle lower tltfai tho Woohvorth Building of New Yotl&i but will not affect the prestige of imh Eiffel Tower, Paris: £3t ( The plans have not interested, land so much in the imposing 'tetter * and stature of the new station, howe&k as it has in the fact that the cSj» ; perplexing traffic problems aro to be solved. , For more than a Cleveland's suburban ttain sorvice;M" been virtually a non-existent factajjfef' Tlie new station will cost more tin"* £16,000,000, and will be used, byWjjs; railroads entering Cleveland withexception of tho Pennsylvania linei^l|v; Trains will enter the station ab«|% 2oft. or 30ft. under ground, <m-1h)|) same plans as used in New York Excavations for this purpose are ahqggfcf \ wholly finished now, from the hoga River "and the low-lying BectSsr«jf| the citv to the site of the new B&tlp|p while the steelwork for. the snpergtpggj ItureV-will be under way this The station itself will bo eonstrttJWL|; entirely-of white stone. 3*' ! ili?