Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1928, Page 7

RAILWAY PLANS I FORNEW BUILDING Southern’ Asks Permit for Construction of Headguar- | ters, 15th and K Streets. Plans for the new Washington head- quarters building of the Southern Rail- way, to be erected at the southwest corner of Fifteenth and K streets, were filed with the District Building inspec- tor today. The building is to be 1 stories, running to a maximum height of 130 feet, with set backs above the 110-foot level. ‘The cost of the building project was not stated in the application filed by Waddy B. Wood, architect, but the great size and costly treatment of the building indicate that the figure will run close to $2.000,000. The building cost is in addition to the $1,600,000 paid for the site and the cost of the furnishings. Building Plan Sketched. According to plans filed with Build- ing Inspector Oehmann this morning, the building will be highly ornamental in character, having facades of lime- stone and with door and window frames of bronze. The main lobby on Fif- teenth street and the one leading from a second entrance on K street will be finished in marble. The building will front 212 feet on Fifteenth street and there will be two wings, one fronting on K street, which will be 50 feet wide and 121 feet deep. On the first floor, at the corner of Fifteenth and K streets, will be a large room to be used as ticket office by ‘the railway, and also on this floor will be provision for a bank and eight shops. At the rear will be a large safety vault. The main lobby will be two stories high. Offices on Tenth Floor. On the tenth floor will be spacious offices for the vice presidents of the railway, their clerical staffs and con- ference rooms, while on the top floor will be provision for the president, file- rooms, a directors’ room, large dining soom and a great departmental room. G e Research for Sugar. NEW YORK (#).—The Sugar Insti- tute has appointed a committee to con- - gider a vlan for chemical research as applied to the refining of raw sugar under direction of an experienced chem- ist. Reduction of costs chiefly is soughs, but efforts will be made to find means of increasing the yield and substitutes for costly materials now used in the re- fining process. . The British Royal Air Force has had more than 50 fatalities this THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1928. EXODUS OF SOUTHERN RAILWAY 1| recent EMPLOYES WILL BEGIN FRIDAY Amid tears and cheers, the vanguard of the 1,100 employes of the Southern Railway Co. in Washington, ordered transferred to the Atlanta offices of the company, will depart from Union Sta- tion late Friday afternoon aboard three special trains carrying 24 Pullman coaches. Approximately 200 families of em- ployes, uprooted from their homes here, will be transplanted in new homes awaiting them in Atlanta with the first group of 850 departing clerks. Other groups of Southern Railway clerks will leave periodically until Oc- tober 9, dcgleung the city's population by more than 1,500 residents in an exodus said to be unequaled here in years. Evidently rejoicing that Washington's loss 15 Atlanta’s gain, the mayor of the Georgia metropolis, I. N. Ragsdale, has prepared to give the first group of new citizens an official welcome upon their arrival Saturday morning. A recep- tion committee of 100 prominent At- lantans will help do the honors. ‘The exodus of 1,100 clerks, all in the auditing department, will cut nearly to half the total of 2,400 employes of the executive offices maintained here. This skeleton staff will be kept intact, how- ever, awaiting the completion of the new Scuthern Railway offices at Fif- teenth and K streets, excavation for which is now under way. Plans for the departure of the first group of clerks Friday were announced today by E. H. Kemper, controller of the company. A. T. Martin, auditor of freight accounts, will be in charge of the “special,” which is divided into three sections. FEach section will com- prise three baggage cars, eight Pull- s and two_dining cars. The first on will pull out of Union Station o'clock, followed by the two other s at half hour periods. These last few weeks have been try- ing ones for many of the clerks and their families, and sadness will mingle with gladness at the scene of departure comfortable homes they have estab- lished here and to break up friendship Ues. Some of the clerks who were loath RATES Room for two | persons, S60 a month and up. Rates for tran- sient guests, $2.50 per day and up. 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