. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . tsburg, a dis-tance of three hundredcind fifty-four miles. Nowt has its eastern terminiit New York, Philadel-hia, Baltimore, andWashington; and unitesthem, by its own directi n e s, with Pittsburg,Trie, Cleveland, Toledo,Chicago, Cincinnati, In-dianapolis, Louisville, Louis. Connections NEAR PHILADELPHIA. ?e ^^^O made with St. Paul, Duluth, Omaha,Denver, the cities of California, and with Memphis, Mobile, and NewOrlea
. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . tsburg, a dis-tance of three hundredcind fifty-four miles. Nowt has its eastern terminiit New York, Philadel-hia, Baltimore, andWashington; and unitesthem, by its own directi n e s, with Pittsburg,Trie, Cleveland, Toledo,Chicago, Cincinnati, In-dianapolis, Louisville, Louis. Connections NEAR PHILADELPHIA. ?e ^^^O made with St. Paul, Duluth, Omaha,Denver, the cities of California, and with Memphis, Mobile, and NewOrleans. To transact its extended and diversified business, the Company nowowns, and runs upon its own lines, eleven hundred locomotives, one thou-sand passenger cars, and twenty-six thousand freight cars. It owns twothousand miles of completed road, besides the other thousands which itcontrols. Its workshops cover an area of more than five hundred employs a vast army of men, many of wliom are mechanics and expertsof the highest skill. It has two hundred and twenty-two foreign ticket-offices (and agents, independent of those at its own stations), established. 248 POPTLAU KESORTS, AND HOW TO KEACU THEM. in thirteen difiEerent States. Its chief officers have been civil engineers;and they employ in their service thoroughly practical men. It is from the proceeds of a business of such mammoth proportionsthat this Company are able to overcome difficulties along portions of theirline, which it would be folly for a less wealthy corporation to knowledge of these advantages induced the formation of a new organi-zation, known as the Pennsylvania Company, having for its object theconsolidation and harmonious management of all roads under its company, with a capital of S^12,000,000, was organized by the elec-tion of Thomas A. Scott, Esq., as president. In 1873 it had nearly fivethousand miles of railroad under its control. COXSTRVCTIOX. Ordinarily companies are
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