THE ORNAMENTATION OF THE 
NEW SUBWAY STATIONS 
IN NEW YORK 
[second article] 
U NTIL a few weeks ago the silence of the 
completed Subway had been disturbed 
only by the muffled noises of the street traffic 
overhead, an occasional footstep of a walker 
along the ties or the whirr of a passing 
handcar. Jn the neighborhood of Ninety- 
first Street alone there has been a show of 
business on the part of a diminutive locomo¬ 
tive, which once did service on the Manhat¬ 
tan Elevated, 
and now hauls 
the stone to the 
gangs who are 
rapidly placing 
it along the 
roadway. 
The other 
day this engine, 
with one car, 
was started 
from the north¬ 
ern terminus of 
the road under 
orders to run 
to the City 
Hall. The 
financiers and 
members of the 
Rapid Transit 
C o m m i s s i o n 
who were the 
passengers had the opportunity to see all the 
stations, with a few exceptions, very nearly 
completed—even to the ticket booths, which 
are now in place at City Hall. The speed 
at which the stations were, in their turn, dis¬ 
covered emerging from the gloom of inter¬ 
vening stretches of tunnel was that at which 
the public may in future see them from the 
windows of trains. Only in this manner 
can the comprehensive scheme of station de¬ 
sign and decoration be appreciated. The 
readers of “House and Garden” have al¬ 
ready obtained some light as to what that 
scheme is; 1 how the passenger is to be in¬ 
formed of his whereabouts under the city 
not only by means of the station names thrust 
sharply before 
his view, but 
by means of 
their surround¬ 
ing decoration 
and the sym¬ 
bols it includes 
he is to know 
what station 
and the kind of 
station he has 
reached,wheth¬ 
er it be an ex¬ 
press point, 
where perhaps 
he is to change 
cars from a 
way train to a 
fast £t Harlem 
Special.” 
One of the 
most important 
of these express stations will be Fourteenth 
Street. Here there is some complication in 
the plan of the station levels, due to the 
crossing from the outer accommodation plat¬ 
forms to the “island platform” in the center, 
whence express trains are boarded. Where 
'See “House and Garden,” Vol. V, No. 2, February, 1904. 
THE TICKET BOOTHS AT CITY HALL 
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