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Excerpt from Turner and Co; 'S Winston and Salem City Directory, for the Years 1889 and 1890: General Directory of the Citizens of Winston and Salem, N. C., With the White and Colored Population Separated in Different Parts of the Book Is one of the most popular routes for business and'pleasure travel leading to and from New York city, as well as being the most substantially built and elegantly equipped double track line through central New York State. This superbly built railroad has been justly named the Picturesque Route, traversing as it does the west shore of the historic and world-famed Hudson River. Skirting the foot-hills of the Catskill Mountains, famous in Washington Irving's Rip Van and passing through the beautiful Mohawk Valley. By this route three express trains are run daily, in eaehdirect-ion, between New York, Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto. Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, and the W'est. Palace sleeping - cars are attached to these trains, -and run through without change between the points named. Sleeping-cars, New York to Toronto without change, are run exclusively by the rest Shore. The West Shore, in connection with the Fitchburg Railroad, is also the shortest line between Boston and Chicago. It is the only all-rail line to the Catskill Moun tains. And the only line by which drawing-room cars are run through to the heart of the Catskills. During the season of Summer travel fast Catskill Moun tain express trains are scheduled. Attached to these trains are drawing-room cars, which run through without change between Philadelphia, Jersey City, New York, and Catskill Mountains. Saratoga limited express trains are aish run by the fest Shore during the summer season, and, have drawing-room cars attached which run through without change between Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Long Branch, Jersey City, New York, and Saratoga. Buffet smoking-cars, with revolving chairs, are a special feature of the splendid service on' the W'est Shore. Drawing-room mars also run between Saratoga and Niagara _falls. The W'est Shore also runs special trains between New York and New Paltz during the summer season for the accommodation of travel to and from Lake Mohonk, Minnewaska, Shawangunk, andall points in the \vallkill Valley. The connection in J ersev City station with the Pennsylvania Railroad will be appreciated by travelers to and from the South and the resorts of central New York State, as the long transfer through New York is thereby avoided. Passen gers and baggage from Brooklyn are taken direct from the foot of Fulton Street byannex boat to Jersey City stations. Tickets via West Shore can be purchased at ticket-offices of all connecting lines, and they are sold and baggage checked through to destination from all stations of the West Shore Railroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.