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Title: Health and pleasure on America's greatest railroad..
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Co
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Publisher: Buffalo
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ant. PATHWAYS INTO THE Ad;RONdacKS. Only within a few years the Adirondack Railway, a standard gauge route,which extends northward from Saratoga sixty miles to North Creek, has comeinto prominence as a means of speedily reaching many points in the most pic-turesque and retired portions of the wilderness hitherto practically beyond therange of the general tourist and the invalid. Through sleeping car service is maintained from New York to the northernterminus of this railway, over the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad,the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, and the Adirondack Railway at Saratoga, thusforming a through unbroken route, and enabling passengers destined for BlueMountain Lake and beyond to reach that beautiful sheet by tally-ho at noon theday following the evening of departure. 56 HEALTH AND PLEASURE RESORTS OX THE At Hadley passengers leave the train for Luzerne, half a mtt£ distant, whichwill be remembered by many for its delicious trout dinners. Lake Luzerne is a
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Salmon Falls. Adirondack Mountains. small but exceedingly picturesque body of water suggestive of Switzerlandsfamed resort. The principal hotels are Rockwells and the Wayside. NEW YORK CENTRAL, & HUDSON RIVER R. R. 57 A tally-ho line of stages meets the north-bound trains over this road at River-side, connecting that point with Pottersville at the foot of Schroon Lake, a dis-tance of seven miles. The small but handsome steamer Effingham completesthe journey to Schroon Lake Village at the further extreme of the lake whereseveral extensive hotels are located. Blue Mountain Lake, which is reached by tally-ho from North Creek, theterminus of the Adirondack Railway, is one of the most beautiful of the mag-nificent system of lakes and streams for which this region is famous. It is ovalin shape, with an extreme diameter of about three miles, and lies at an elevationof about 2,000 feet above the sea. It has three hotels ; the first one reached be-ing Hollands Lake House, recently rebuilt

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