The Jews of Baltimore - Vol 1/2

Page 40

WASHINGTON-SUNSET ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA

The Washington-Smisot Route began

be

to

aggressively exploited as a tourist route to and

from

the

From

that

adopted l)ublic

Coast

Pacific

on

time

attract

to

in

every

and

September,

1895.

measure has been

satisfy

the

traveling

from a point of service and equipment.

Starting

from

Boston,

nineteen

and

States

Territories are traversed before Los Angeles or

San Francisco

is

indeed, to study,

reached

—a

rich

opportunity,

from actual observation, the

SANTA BARBARA MISSION

facture, flora, climate, topography

and

dis-

manu-

tinctive features of commerce, agriculture,

man-

all

ner of places and peoples, in the States of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,

New

York,

New

Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,

South Carolina Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,

North Carolina,

New

Mexico,

Old

There are stop-over privileges permitted en route,

Mexico, Arizona and California.

which make these opportunities especially enticing.

Standard sleeping cars are operated from

New

New York

to

New

Orleans and from

and tourist sleeping cars are operated from

Orleans to San Francisco;

ington to San Francisco without change, constituting the longest run for

any cars

in regular service

sleeping car service

is

;

and a particularly pleasing feature

in

Wash-

the world

of this

tourist

that the same conductor and porter go through with the car

without change, thus adding largely to the comfort and pleasure of the passengers. These features have been prime factors in building up this Tourist Car Line from one car a week to four cars per week.

Many

people in the East

who have not

traveled in the tourist cars of the

Wash-

ington-Sunset Route do not appreciate the ex-

treme superiority of these

The

offices of

cars.

the Washington-Sunset Route

are conveniently accessible to the traveling publie

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