Your inspection will not be complete until you have made a trip through the vast kitchens, one of the most interesting features of the great hotel. Here Cleanliness is King! Stainless floors, alabaster walls, abundant air, and everywhere healthfulness and good cheer. Great pantries, sweet storerooms, ample closets lined high with glittering cut glass, with shining silver, with gleaming linen ready for your next call for luncheon or dinner. On every face you see honest pride in the work; immaculate in garb and person, chefs, cooks, pantry-men and lesser serving men prepare with infinite care for your entertainment. Utensils shining, radiant copper, resplendent brass, enamel aluminum and chinaware attest ardent pride in the great institution these men have served so long and so well. [Illustration: Louis XVI Dining Room Perfect in Appointment and Service] It is for you they toil, this unseen army. Your comfort, your pleasure, your entertainment is the goal of hospitality. It is for this the edifice was raised, for this the art centers of the world were searched, and for this the master craftsmen of seven continents wrought and toiled. For _you_, whether you come today, or tomorrow or next month or next year. All is ready, waiting, waiting--for _you_. To see the world, see Chicago first. To see Chicago best--you are welcomed to the Congress Hotel. Prepared by Irving S. Paull W.S. Goodnow Illustrations by Sam Stoltz A. Fred Tellender End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Congress Hotel Home of a Thousand Homes, by Irving S. Paull and W. S. Goodnaw