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OCROFUTT’S NEW OVERLAND TOURIST

 

 

Only first-class passengers can procure
berths in the sleeping cars.

HINTS BEFORE WE START.

1. Provide yourself with Crofutt’s New
Overland Tourist, and then be particular
to choose such routes as will enable you
to visit the cities, towns, and objects of
interest that you desire to see, without an-
noyance of needless expense.

2. Greenbacks are good everywhere, so
there is no longer any necessity of chang-
ing them for gold.

3. Never purchase your tickets from a
stranger in the street, but over the counter
of some responsible company. When
purchasing tickets, look well to the date,
and notice that each ticket is stamped at
the time you receive it. Then make a
memorandum on the blank in the ANNEX
No. 2, of your Guide Book, of the name of
the road issuing the ticket, destination of
ticket, form, number of ticket, consecutive
number, class and date. In case you lose
your ticket, make known the fact at once
at the office of the company, showing the
memorandum as above described, and steps
can be taken immediately to recover the
ticket, if lost or stolen, or to prevent its be-
ing used by any one else. By attention to
such slight and apparently unimportant
matters as these, travelers may recover
their loss and save themselves much in-
convenience.

4, Before starting out, provide yourself
with at least one-third more money than
your most liberal estimate would seem to
require, and do not lend to strangers or be
induced to play at their games, 2f you do,
you will surely be robbed.

5. Endeavor to be at the depot at least
fifteen minutes before the train leaves,
thereby avoiding a crowd and securing a
good seat.

6. You will need to show your ticket to
the baggage-man when you.ask him to
check your baggage; then see that it is
properly checked, and make a memoran-
dum of the number of the check in the
blank of the AnnEx No. 3; this done, you
will need to give it no further attention un-
til you. get to the place to which it is
checked.

%. Persons who accompany the con-
ductor through the cars, calling for bag-
gage to be delivered at the hotels or other
places, are generally reliable, but the pas-
senger, if in doubt, should inquire of the
conductor, and then be careful to compare

the number of the ticket received from the
agent in exchange for your check, to be
sure that they are the same.

8. Do not grumble at everything and
everybody or seek to attract attention; re-
member only boors and uneducated peo-
ple are intrusive and boisterous.

9. Remember this: “Please” and
“Thanks” are towers of strength. Do not
let the servants excel you in patience and
politeness. All railroad employes are in-
structed to be gentlemanly and obliging at
all times.

10. And finally—Do not judge of the
people you meet by their clothes, or think
es are going west to find fools; as a mil-

ionaire may be in greasy buckskin, a col-
lege graduate in rags, and a genius with
little of either, while in the breast of each
beats an honest heart.

 

 

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For Rates of Fare, see ANNEX No. 4.
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Route 1—From Hatirax take the
Inter-Colonial and Grand Trunk railways,
through the Province of New Bruns-
wick via Quebec, Montreal, Victoria
Bridge, along the shore of the St. Law-
rence River, Thousand Islands, and La
Chine Rapids, Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara
and Detroit, where connections are made
with routes 2and8, Another route is by
Maine Central via Portland, and then the
Grand Trunk, or, via Boston and the
Central Vermont andthe Grand Trunk.

From Bosron there are quite a num-
ber of lines. One, as above described, is
through Vermont and Canada; another is
by the Boston & Albany railroad to AI-
bany, where connections are made with
route 2; another is thenew “Hoosac Tun-
nel” route, through the mountain and tun-
nel of that. name,—25,081 feet in length,
double track ; cost $16,000,000—cut through
a mountain which rises 1,900 feet above the
track. This route is a very desirable one,
passes through the entire length of the
State of Massachusetts, and connects with
route 2, at Troy, New York. Another
line is via Springfield, or Shore Line, to
New York city; or, you can take part
“rail” and the steamships on Long Island
Sound, of which there are three first-class
lines, comprising some of the finest boats
in the world.

From New York city, passengers who
desire to visit Nragara—whose thundering
cataracts, in volume of waters, far surpass
all other waterfalls in the known world—