. The Street railway journal . llustrations presented herewith of thegeneral exterior and the track layout, which shows thearrangement of the pits, the location of the transfer table,etc. Coming to the club equipment, with which it is the pur-pose of this articleto deal, it is onlynecessary casuallyto glance at the ac-companying picturesof the reading room,the pool room, thelunch room and thedormitory fully toappreciate howthoroughly the en-tire scheme hasbeen carried out. Comparatively fewcompanies havegone in for lunchrooms, but thosethat have, so far asit is on record, havefound them to be
. The Street railway journal . llustrations presented herewith of thegeneral exterior and the track layout, which shows thearrangement of the pits, the location of the transfer table,etc. Coming to the club equipment, with which it is the pur-pose of this articleto deal, it is onlynecessary casuallyto glance at the ac-companying picturesof the reading room,the pool room, thelunch room and thedormitory fully toappreciate howthoroughly the en-tire scheme hasbeen carried out. Comparatively fewcompanies havegone in for lunchrooms, but thosethat have, so far asit is on record, havefound them to be avaluable asset. Theidea at Grand Rap-ids has been not toprovide a dining room, but rather t(j follow the lines alongwhich the buffets in the large cities have been de-veloped. So in one of the rooms where the lightwas good a lunch counter was installed at whichsandwiches, pies, beans and other edibles, and tea, coffeeand milk are supplied to the men at all hours, approxi-mately at cost. One feature of the buffet idea has been. THE LUNCH COUNTER Grand Rapids now possesses one of the best appointed clubhouses in the United States, the equipment including be-sides the usual reading and billiard rooms a dormitory anda lunch room. The car house proper is entirely of brick. At one endis the office structure, which contains the general office andthe quarters of the receivers and dispatchers. The car THE READING ROOM eliminated, however. The men are not compelled to standwhile eating, high wire stools being provided. The lunchcounter is especially popular with the night men, who comein late and vyould find it difficult to obtain any lunch at thathour in the part of the city in which the barn is going out on the early runs are enabled to get break-fast at any hour, and the emergency men find it a great 46 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. .• [Vol. XXXL No. 2. convenience. The regular men in many cases find it muchmore convenient than going several blocks to boardinghouses and res
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