Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . A VIEW IN THE MAIN DINING ROOM. GUIDE TO BOSTON. the street level. In the first place, it may be well to state thatthese various branches of public service are all under the man-agement of The G. W. Armstrong Dining Room and News Com-pany, a company incorporated by the late George W. Armstrong,which operates dining-rooms and news stands in many differentimportant railway stations in New England, and whose agentsfurnish reading matter on the ANOTHER VIEW IN THE MAIN DINING ROOM. The incoming traveler, after his protracted trip in th
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . A VIEW IN THE MAIN DINING ROOM. GUIDE TO BOSTON. the street level. In the first place, it may be well to state thatthese various branches of public service are all under the man-agement of The G. W. Armstrong Dining Room and News Com-pany, a company incorporated by the late George W. Armstrong,which operates dining-rooms and news stands in many differentimportant railway stations in New England, and whose agentsfurnish reading matter on the ANOTHER VIEW IN THE MAIN DINING ROOM. The incoming traveler, after his protracted trip in the cars,passes through the handsome waiting-room opposite tracks 19and 20, which in former years was the main hall of the Boston andLowell Railroad Station. Between the twn3 broad exits is one ofthe book and news stands of the company, while to the right isthe dining-room, and to the left is the lunch-room. The main Dining-Room, or rooms, for there are two of them,nearly but not completely separated from each other. Sur- CONVENIENCES FOR TRAVELERS. 189 rounded by tall, arched windows, the rooms are flooded withlight. The walls are of a pleasing tint. The ceiling is far enoughabove that an extra floor would give two high stories. It issupported by handsome Corinthian columns; artistic chande-liers, furnished for both gas and electric lights, provide suchartificial illumination as may be needed in the evening. It may be well to state here that the entire dining-room hasbeen newly furnished this sp
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