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Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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90feet high, decorated with single coffers or panels, after the mannerof the bath of Diocletian. The size of the passenger concourse or lobby will by far exceedanything ever built for a similar purpose; it is 760 feet long by 130feet wide, and covered by an arched ceiling in a single span, deco-rated with panels, part of which will transmit light. Every modern comfort known will be provided for in this station;there will be a large dining-room, lunch-room, and womens waiting-room; smoking-room and package-room; ticket oflice and baggage-room; telephone and telegraph booths, all of which are designed toafford the traveling passenger the greatest comfort. As a matter of history the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the firstrailway of America, was the first to enter Washington in 1835, andit is fitting that it be the first to open the doors of the most magnifi-cent railway station m the world, which has been built with the ideaof becoming the vestibule to the greatest Nation of the earth.
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HIGHEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD. Forly-five Story Municipal Building Proposed for Pittsburgh. mOWE RING 700 feet high, sur-mounted by iO-foot dials of a largeclock symbolizing Justices sleeplesseyes, will be the steel and granitestructure, 90 feet square, that will beplaced in the center of the AlleghenyCounty Court House, where the areawayis now, if the plans submitted to thecounty commissioners are adopted. Ample room for all the legal business ofthe county would be provided by thescheme, it is stated, and county officialswho viewed the drawings were much im-pressed. The cost of the proposed en-largement would be about $2,000,000, butas it is said the new addition would beample fur all purposes for years to come,it would not be necessary to buy any moreground, and that already secured could bedisposed of. No change would be made in the presentcourt house, except as to the 90x 120-footareaway in the centre, and the beauty, itis asserted, of the old building, which isone of the finest p

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