Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . CONVENIENCES FOR TRAVELERS. 187 as it simply states that the station is amply provided with properdepartments for this purpose. Every great railway station has its dining-rooms, its newsstands, its confectionery and soda-dispensing counters, but thereare few, if any, in the country which can compare in con-venience and perfection of detail with those in the North UnionStation in Boston. The size of the station enables each of thesedepartments to be most conveniently placed, and to be soplanned as to serve thoroughly and efficiently an immense
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . CONVENIENCES FOR TRAVELERS. 187 as it simply states that the station is amply provided with properdepartments for this purpose. Every great railway station has its dining-rooms, its newsstands, its confectionery and soda-dispensing counters, but thereare few, if any, in the country which can compare in con-venience and perfection of detail with those in the North UnionStation in Boston. The size of the station enables each of thesedepartments to be most conveniently placed, and to be soplanned as to serve thoroughly and efficiently an immense num-ber of patrons. In one particular they are almost unique in agreat terminal station. They are all situated upon the main, orstreet, floor, on a level with the platforms upon which the pas-sengers alight on their arrival, and require no steps up or downfrom the street or train house. This is in distinct contrast withother stations in this city and those of Philadelphia, New Yorkand Western cities, where dining-rooms are upon floors above. A VIEW IN THE MAIN DINING ROOM. 188 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 trains. IBk^^ , y ^H ^^B l^^^Hnl n^^B^ V^^^Bk^-^-S^^^i^^is ^^^^^^H|l m^^ - iH*^g~ Wm \ I Mnl w W^^M mr tit; ^^^^^^^M ?PiiH^/ ^ ^ %^.^ %K jfl 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 two broad exits is one ofthe book and news stands of the company, while to the right isthe dining-room,
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