The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-14
C. & N. w. Passenger Terminal
AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

4. WITH The opening OF the new pdSScH
ger terminal, Chicago. OF the Chicago
Il Northwestern Railway company, d
worthy gateway is flung wide to The
golden west. Whatever OF allurement
lies in, the new land Of promise, OF
beauty in the old world left behind
finds expression in the new station
1t is like picture from European
cathedral town set down in the heart
of Americas most cosmopolitan city
It's substantial walls are of grey gran.
tie brought from Maine. It's architec.
ture is that of the early Italian
renaissance.
The pOrticO at the main entrance
street, one of Chicagos busiest thor.
oughfares, between Canal and Clinton
streets. All around it is rush OF
tireless traffic, but not even the tread
of nations seeking new homes or new
experiences, or hurrying on to do the
worlds work, will ever take from the
four-story building with it's Doric port
leo and massive granite pillars, it's
look of luxurious calm and leisure to
tarry.
The portico at the mainn 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 pub
lie. Back of the colonnade is the high
vaulted vestibule with granite stair
ways leading to the main waiting
room.
In the big, low-ceilinged main lobby
just beyond the vestibule the weary
traveller may lay down his cares with
the suit case he drops on the brass
baggage rest below the ticket win
dows. An old experienced traveller
will be grateful for the many new con-
veniences. A young girl making her
first journey alone will wonder why
anyone ever told her travelling was not
easy. The tiled walls are of a soft,
restful green. The arched ceiling is
supported by pillars, the very mass
iveness of which radiates confidence.
There is no chance for bewildering
confusion even though all the nations
of the earth go west at once, for there
are thirty-seven ticket windows, each
one with lettered designation above it.
Pullman tickets, communication, parlor
car-every sort of ticket sold is clear
ly indicated. Adjoining the ticket
Office is special department in
charge of personally escorted tours.
There are plainly marked baggage
rooms, parcel windows, and lost and
found 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 import
ance 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 mas
ter's Office and elevators open off 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
concourse for private motor cars
and carriages. The Parmelee buses
receive and discharge passengers I'M
der the canopy on Canal street. The
carriage and motor car stand Is north
of the Canal street entrance. Every
where are exits and entrances, every
where careful plans for the avoidance
of confusion or congestion of traffic.
The system of lighting adds to the
attractiveness of the lobby. In the
center of it all, lest there is something
the passenger has overlooked or for
gotten, is the information bureau.
Facing the main entrance on Madi-
son street is the grand stairway, brass
rallied and with headlights to keep
the unwary from stumbling. This
leads to the main waiting room and
train concourse, where the traveller
takes the local train to his suburban
home or through trains to all points
in the great west and northwest.
In the main waiting room on the
track level, you must pause and look
around even though the ushers and
the train master on his balcony are
calling your train. If you have long
wait between trains you will not be
sorry, for the high-backed seats are
as comfortable as the Morris chair at
home, and the big waiting room is
worth your leisurely observation. II
you have only a moment the cursory
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