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Identifier: bookofroyalblue05balt (find matches)
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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floor so thatpassenger can deposit hisvalise upon it withoutstooping when ijurchas-ing his ticket. This is alittle tiling in itself, butsignificant as indicatinghow the comfort of thetraveler has been consid-ered in the constructionof the building, even tothe minutest detail. Passing through tlielobby just described onecomes next to the mainwaiting-room, a spacioushall finished like thelobby, in quartered oak,and with a lofty, pan-eled ceiling. The set-tees and news-stand areof hardwood, harmoniz-ing with the interiorfinish of the room. To the right of thenews-stand a door leads to the womenswaiting-room, beyond which is a toiletwith walls of gray marble and floor ofterrazza, a kind of mosaic. At the oppositeend of the waiting-room is the menstoilet, which is reached by passing throughthe smoking-room. On the second floor ofthe building on a level with the upperdeck of tlie ferryboat is another waiting-room, almost as large as that just described.Both waiting-rooms are provided witli
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