A Streetcar Cathedral Rises at Chestnut and Fifth

THE NEW STATION. A Large Building for the Light and Power Company. Headquarters for the Offices, Salesroom and Repair Shops — Description of the Building — The New Ordinance.

In a short time the business of the Olympia Light Power Company will be concentrated in the new station, which will be located at the southeast corner of Chestnut and Fifth streets. Here will be located the offices of the company, supply rooms, repair shops and accommodations for employees.

The building as designed will be 48x120 feet, three stories high and is nicely designed. One-half of the lower floor will have trackage accommodations for ten cars, with pits under the tracks so that six cars can be repaired or attended to at once. In many stations one small pit is all that answers this purpose. The other half of the floor space is used for office and storeroom purposes.

A large store 23x38 is for the sale of electrical supplies. In this room is also located an office for the cashier, where the conductors may cash up at each trip.

Adjoining the store will be the trustees' room, 23x24, where all meetings will be held. The next room is a storage room for electrical supplies, and adjoining is a room 23x23 for the repair of lamps and other electric apparatus. To the rear is a blacksmith shop and lathe room. In this way all of the first floor is disposed of.

On the second floor provision has been made for the employees. A large room in the front of the building is for a reading and sitting room for employees, where they may pass their evenings or spare hours of the day. On the same floor are bed rooms, sufficient in number to accommodate any of the single employees who desire to room there. The third floor is for a paint shop and wood working room.

The building will be of frame, and rustic finish. Dent Jewell have the contract for the building, and I. Liberman has the contract for the foundation.

'The terms of the contract,' said President E. T. Young, this morning, 'call for the completion of the station by May 18, but we can do nothing until the city council meets. We supposed that our ordinances would have been disposed of last night. The impression in relation to our requests is wrong. We must go down Chestnut street from Fourth street to get to our station. Another thing we want to avoid is a double track on Fourth street, where it narrows from 80 feet this side of Jefferson. Our only way to accomplish this is by going down Jefferson to Third, along Third to Franklin, to Second, and to Main, thus making a belt line. This is all we ask to be inserted in the ordinance. With regard to Maple Park and Union street our old ordinance granted a franchise over these streets and we are asking nothing new.'