Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1910 — LAUNDERED AIR A NEW FAD. [ARTICLE]

LAUNDERED AIR A NEW FAD.

V>a Au*elee Betel Will Wok AU Germa Out es Atmosphere. Persona who are under the impression that the Los Angeles atmosphere la the ne plus ultra of ethereal purity ■will have the surprise of their lives when they hear the startling intelligence that there is still room for improvement, the Examiner of that sity lays. Additional wonderment, speechless la its character, will be occasioned by >he announcement that this great health-giving air of the Pacific Riviera, or any other air, may be washed, brushed up, deodorized, purified, dried, chilled or heated according to individual discretion, and served in any first-class hotel room with no more difficulty than the mere touching of an electric button. Accordingly, a number of roams in the new Alexandria will be provided with a clean-air attachment that will permit the hermetlcal closing of any apartment and, at the name time, furnish dust-free, smokeless and noiseless atmosphere at any desired degree. To thoroughly ventilate a room every four minutes without opening either transom or window —that is what the Alexandria proposes to do. In the future Clerk Sibbald will greet the guests, perhaps, as follows: "Yourself and wife? Yes, sir, delighted to have you. What temperature, please?*’ 4 “Sir?" "I mean what degree of temperature do you desire in your room?” Upon the surprised answer of the guest, for instance, that he wishes a nice 68-degree atmosphere, the clerk will simply move an Indicator under the room number and before the guests reach the elevator their rooms will have the desired climatic conditions. It will be explained to them that the purest air is that which is cleaned by chemical processes, made dustless and germless and scientifically conveyed to the hotel rooms through large pipes that have their origin on the roof. In this same manner guests will be provided with cool breezes of laundered atmosphere during the hot summer months. » “We will have the best ventilated hotel in the world,” said Mr. Whitmore, “and propose to equip a number of rooms with this new device of furnishing pure air at any degree of heat or cold, according to individual desires.** ■ - ——r. '