The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-04-14
SEEING CHICAGO.
Miss Barbara Martin Continues Her De-
scription Of Places OF Interest She
Visited in the Great Metropo-
lis OF the West.

gomery, Wards big store. In
this letter l shall tell you of 9th.
er places that were very interest
ing to me.
The second day, started out
a little earlier and visited the City
Hall, Cook county Court House,
Tribune Building, and the follow
ing stores: Siegel Cooper, Man.
dell Brothers, Boston Store, Bur
ley & Cos. China and Cut Glass
--one of the finest OF it's kind in
Chicago-and Marshall Fields,
which is the largest and finest re
tail store In the world, and which
l will attempt to describe.
There are always a number of
visitors making a tour of the
store. Upon entering the store,
there Is someone IN waiting to di
rect the visitor to the waiting
room on the third floor. We wait
ed here until guide came. There
are num- ber of ladies who do
nothing but show the visitors
through the store and point out
to them the most interesting plac
es. They seldom take more than
ten in party at one time.
We were taken up to the twelfth
floor, where we entered a small
cloak room adjoining the cold
storage, and heavy winter wrap
was given to each one of US to put
on. Then, another guide in heavy
winter clothing showed us
through the cold storage, where
So, 100000 worth of fdrs we're
kept IN excellent condition
through the summer. This de-
partment was colder than the
coolest day In January, and the
guide looked as though he had
come from the f;ozen regions of
the north. From here we were
taken to the north rotunda, where
we had a sectional view of the
store. The granite monoliths at
tue main entrance on State street
are 484 feet high and 81 feet in
diameter. The main aisle is 3S5
feet long. Above the rotunda in
the south room there is Tiffany
Mosaic dome OF lridescent favrile
glass. This Is the largest single
piece of glass Mosaic in the world
and so far as known, is the first
dome ever built of lridescent
glass. Its area is nearly 5000
square feet. This store has the
busiest private telephone ex-
change in the world, handling ov
er 10000 calls day.
The Tea and Grill Rooms cover
the entire seventh floor, and have
a seating capacity for $500 per-
sons. We were told that 5000
visitors lunch there every day.
The total area of these rooms Is
81, ,450 square feet. The delivery
system utilize over 300 wagons
and 700 horses, and cover terri
tory of about $50 square miles.
The volume of air supplied In the
ventilatlng system is 425, APO
cubic feet per minute. The ice
machines have capacity or 100
tons daily. 1t is estimated that
the mum ber of visitors average
nearly 100000 every day. There
are reading, writing and rest
rooms for the visitor. The read
ing tablea are supplied with fall
standard magazines, Chicago
newspapers, and the leading pa
pers from other large cities.
There is library and writing.
room exclusively for women.
IfWomen's waiting reem, mems
waiting room, and chlldren's
room. There Is a medical room
fitted with all the most modern
conyeniences. There are 371, ,125
square feet of Wilton carpet used
on the floors in the selling section
of the store. If this carpet was
rolled out IN one strip it would
extend thirty one and a quarter
miles. There are three stories
below the level OF the street.
From the ground floor there is an
underground electric railway
which connects the retail house
with the Wholesale house. The
distance between the two houses
| Is one mile. There are twelve