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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