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SOLID COMFORT
[Welland Telegraph, 3 July 1891]
The gentlemen from the other side, who came over to locate a site for a glass factory on Saturday last, were driven by Reeve Cronmiller out to Solid Comfort, where they were introduced to Mr. P. McIntyre, the founder of the resort who kindly escorted them around the grove and explained all the many comforts to be derived by living at Solid Comfort. The collection of curiosities found in the mound on which the flag pole is raised, which includes some very perfect Indian skulls were duly examined, and Mr. McIntyre, who must certainly be a collector of no mean repute, gave a very graphic lecture as to the uses of the various articles found, and the company which had somewhat increased in numbers listened to the same with the keenest interest. The next place to visit was the club house or dining room, and there is no doubt but what under the able management of Mr. R.C. Avery that the club is one of the best managed in Canada, everything is spotlessly clean and order prevailed everywhere. All the cooking is done with natural gas, and although there is a very large range suitable for cooking for about 400 people, in the kitchen there was no unpleasant amount of heat, and the different workers were very busy serving dinner and did not appear to notice the heat at all. The Reid Combination oven for bread and pastry is certainly a marvel of simplicity and perfectness, and it is only to be known to be in use in every club, restaurant and hotel. At the present invitation of Mr. McIntyre, the party to the number of nine sat down to dinner at 1.30 and due justice was done to all the good things provided; there is no higher compliment to be paid the steward, Mr. Avery, than quoting the words of one of the southerners, “Yes, Mr. Avery feeds us well, in fact he feeds us too well.” Mr. McIntyre was wise in his choice of a name for the home as “Solid Comfort,” conveys to the tired city merchant prince just what it is, a place of rest; then the children may roam about in perfect safety; no dangerous tide or deep water to engulf them, and no rocks to fall over and injure their bodies, and the parents can spend their days in perfect bliss in watching the ever changing scenes that are ever occurring on land or water, with never a thought as to what they shall or what they shall not drink.
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