Railroad Station Has Lullaby Room for Waiting Babies

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 113, 29 May 1937, Page 18

Railroad Station Has Lullaby Room for Waiting Babies

CSICAGO. — Lullabies are quiie appropriate in the Chicago Union Station since the depot nursery has been redecorated and air conditioned. Here some 400 mothers and babies stop each day, coming over the Chicago, Mib waukee and St. Paul from as far north as Minnesota, over the Pennysylvania from that State and New York, and over the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. from as far West as Denver. So the nursery is almost nati'onwide in its patrons. .* Walls have been tinted a restful blue, conducive to sleep. And tbe windows have been bricked up so that the room could be air conditioned, thus eliminating the noise and dust of the street. The low murmur of lullabies, formerly lost in the din of traffie noises, now put young ones more in the bedtime mood of home. And the air conditioning adds a greater luxury of even temperature than most children know at home. There are high-barred cradles for them to sleep iri, and comfortable tube-steel lounge chairs for their mothers to rest in. And ohe of these spring days, accordipg to M. B. Wathen, supervisor of building service fpr the Crion Station Company, there will be gay wall pictures for youngsters to laugh about when they open their eyes after the between-train rest — either enticing pictures will be hung, or gay characters will be painted on the walls, in modern nursery fashion.