Smart Service.

The invited guests were not allowed to go away empty. Over 180 were catered for in the dining-room, which has a staff all told of 19, and 600 in the fine staff social room upstairs. The appointments here, as elsewhere in the station, aroused both pleasure and surprise. The public spent the afternoon wandering round the amazingly extensive premises. Each of the guests was presented with a handsome souvenir of the occasion, a scarlet-covered, beautifully-produced record of the progress of the railway service, and also with a rich blue-covered souvenir programme of the day's ceremony.

The pleasure given the public by the smoothness and lack of confusion of the big crowd handled at the opening and during the hours of inspection was due to the wholehearted way in which members of the head office staff assumed the duties of individual hosts. From the General Manager to the messengers everyone was on deck and helpful, even the typistes serving as waitresses in the social rooms.

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