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A Great Railroad

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
August
Year
1889
Copyright
Public Domain
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Not long ago Mr. George A. Daniels, the general passeneer agent of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, in extending an invitation to foreigners to visit this country, directed their attention to the (act that the United States of America is thegreatest country on earth, peopled withsixty mi Ilion of the most civilized and enterprising people on the globe; that the New York Central Railroad is the greatest railroad on earth- the only fourttack road in the world; that it started from the largest city on the continent, pass.d through the richest and most prosperous región, touching the largest in the interior; is the great trunk line and direct route to that great cataract, Niágara Falls, and that in all respects it reveáis more of the resources and riches of Americain less time, with more safety . and under more luxurious conditions than any other route. There is much in the above not only for foreigners, who want to see this counrry under favorable conditions, but for our own restless and moving people. The New York Central & Hudson River Railroad is the outgrowth of a luxurious and prosperous civilization and one of its greatest engineering triumphs. As is well-known it is the only line from the West to New York that lands its passengers in that city without ferrying them across the North River. lts spacious and magnificent station in the heart of the city has been for years not only the pride of New York, but a lasting monument to the foresighted liberality and enterprise of that great organizer and founder of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad system, Commodore Vanderbilt. The limited trains of this line are the flnest in the world, and its general accomodalions for. the traveling public are only known and appreciated by that large portion of it who have been over the line and ed them.-

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register