People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — FOR PUBLIC COMFORT. [ARTICLE]

FOR PUBLIC COMFORT.

The Beautiful and Well-Managed I’arlor# at the Terminal Station. There is one delightful resort at the fair that deserves to become better known,' as it surely will If the present management continues. This is the department of public comfort in the terminal station. There are other branches of this department, but they do not approach it in the perfection of its management and the satisfaction to the public. Decidedly the coolest place upon the grounds, these great, high, airy parlors, with their inviting easy chairs and rockers, luxurious carpets and draperies and general atmosphere of rest and elegance, invite weary sightseers to “come again,” which they generally do, and bring their friends. Retiring-rooms with easy couches where ladies may rest, with trained maids in attendance, all as free as the lake breeze which rustles through the parlors and plays around the tall pillars, inspire a feeling of gratitude in every tired visitor that there is one place upon the ground where quiet retirement, perfect rest and every needed delicate attention is to be had for the asking. The prettiest souvenirs of the fair are for sale here, but the visitor is never importuned to buy, and the entire conduct of the “terminal parlors” is such as to counteract to a large degree the bad impression made by the catchpenny devices and exorbitant money-grabbing schemes to be found at every turn within the grounds. The secret of the rapidly-growing popularity of the elegant parlors of public comfort in the terminal station is found ifc the management, which is vested in two or three ladies who prominentj ly known in Chicago and who are la. constant attendance.