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Title: Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Pennsylvania railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Allen, Lane & Scott, printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ldings and verdantcampus of Rutgers College, which was chartered by KingGeorge III., of England, in 1770—Queens College then, ofcourse—and of several mills and factories, the roofs of whichare on a level with the car windows. . Smoking car, sir I Yes, ^ ^ - sir ! Next car forward, sir I ^ If you were suddenlyset down in your ownclub you could notbe more snugly en-sconced than you arein this warm-coloredroom, with its low,so ft ly-cushionedwicker chairs, its vel-vet couch, its writing-desks, its book-cases,and its square tablesladen with the morningnewspapers and the cur-rent periodical litera-ture. Beyond the cur-tained door-way yonderis the buffet, with whichyou can communicate bym^eans of an electric buttonalways at hand, and from whichyou can procure whatever youmay desire in the way of liquid re-freshments or cigars. Beyond this is the barber shop, fromwhich entrance is had to the bath-room, and still further forwardis the baggage-room, where your trunks, checked at your hotel
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SMOKING AND LIBRARY CAR. 22 in New York, are being carried along with you, not to be seenagain until you find them at the Chicago hotel of your choice. The train is now making good time through a generallylevel country, watered by streams that flow between pictur-esquely wooded banks, and cultivated by well-to-do, energeticfarmers, who send their produce to both New York and Phila-delphia. As the smoke of your cigar curls from your lips andclouds for an instant the broad window pane you catch a glimpseof a station flying by on your right. It is Princeton Junction,and the smoothly-shaven man with glasses who sits near to you,and who glances out across the fields with a half-regretful smileupon his face, will tell you, if you ask him, that three milesaway, at the top of yonder ridge, is Princeton College, his almavtater. Princeton College, he will inform you, is one of theforemost institutions of learning in the country, and from it havegraduated many of Americas brightest minds. About

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