Photograph by Paul Thompson 



INTERIOR OE THE) GRAND CENTRAL, STATION : NEW YORK CITY 



Every clay some three hundred thousand passengers arrive and depart through the rail- 

 road stations of New York, where nearly one-fifth of the railroad mileage of the United 

 States finds a seaboard terminal. Such tremendous crowds call for vast stations. The 

 Grand Central Station, covering 79 acres of ground, has public rooms where 30,000 can be 

 accommodated at a time without crowding. During its construction the eight hundred daily 

 trains, conveying 100,000 passengers, continued to enter the old structure on the same site. 



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