New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-06-14
PASSENGER TERMINAL CHICAGO
Chicago & North Western Ry.

With the opening of the new Passen-
ger Terminal, Chicago of the Chicago
and North Western Railway Com
pany, worthy gateway is flung wide
to the golden west. Whatever OF
allurement lies in the new land OF
promise, or beauty in the old world
left behind, finds expression in the
new station. 1t is like picture from
q European cathedral town set down
in the heart of Americas most cosmo-
politan city. Its substantial walls
are of gray granite brought from
Maine. Its architecture is that OF the
early Italian renaissance.
The station is located on Madison
street, one of Chlcago's busiest
thoroughfares, between Canal and
Clinton streets. All around it is q
rush OF tireless traffic; but not even
the tread of nations seeking new
homes or new experiences, or hurry
ing on to do the worlds work, will
ever take from the four-storv building
with its Doric portico and massive
granite pillars, its look of luxurious
calm and leisure to tarry. r
The portico at the main entrance on
Madison Street is supported on a
colorado of six granite columns three
stories high. The sort OF entrance
first designed and built for holy
temples now invites the travelling
public. Back OF the colorado is the
high vaulted vestibule with granite
stairways leading to the main waiting
room.
In the big, low-ceilinged main
lobby just beyond the .estibule the
weary traveller may lay down his cares
with the suit case he drops on the
brass baggage rest below the ticket
windows. An old experienced traveller
will be grateful for the many new
conveniences. A young girl making
her first journey alone will wonder
why anyone ever told her travelling
was not easy. The tiled walls are OF
soft, restful green. The arched
ceiling is supported by pillars, the
very massiveness OF which radiates
confidence. There is no chance for
bewildering confusion even though all
the nations of the earth 60 west at
once, for there are thirty-seven ticket
windows, each one with lettered desig-
nation above it. Pullman tickets,
Communication, parlor car-every sort
of ticket sold is clearly indicated.
Adjoining the ticket Office is special
department in charge of personally
escorted tours. There are plainly
marked baggage rooms, parcel win.
dows, and lost-audfound department.
There are twenty telephone booths so
arranged that the opening OF the door
starts an electric fan and turns on the
light. There are other telephones
scattered all over the building-not a
room OF any Importance in the station
but has one or more.
A telegraph Office, drug store with
travellers supplies, and lunch room
add to the general convenience.
Around the pillars are service racks
with writing materials. The station
masters Office and elevators open of
the main lobby, which extends from
Canal Street to Clinton, with an en-
trance from each street. Buses to the
State Street stores arrive and leave
from under the Clinton Street porte
cochere, and just to the north is a
concourse of private motor cars and
carriages. The Parmelee buses re-
ceive and discharge passengers under
the canopy on Canal Street. The
carriage and motor car-stand is north
CT the Canal Street entrance. Every
where are exits and entrances, every
where careful plans for the avoidance
of confusion or congestion of traffic.
With it all, the conveniences and
luxuries with which to invite ones
soul and any lurking inclination to
laziness, there is no danger of miss
ing ones train, for there are clocks at
every turn, all regulated by one
master clock.
While every detail has been supplied
for those who travel in luxury, neither