Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-08-16
baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Union
Line


We have noticed with no small degree of interest,
the negotiations which have been for some time
pending between the proprietors of the Union
Line aud the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
many. We have also had occasion to regret that
there was any necessity for action on the subject
as we have all along been perfectly satisfied that
with the proper efforts on the part of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad Company, there would be
no possible necessity for the Union Line to have
TO look to such arrangements as those proposed by
the Company. But it is indisputably true that
the Company have moderated the importance OF
bringing their improvement before the travelling
public, by those efficient and every day means,
constantly restored to by other lines of travel
We heard gentleman say few days since that
in new York even, a traveller looking for "ways
and means and destined to the West could with
difficulty learn the fact even that the Baltimore q
Ohio Railroad wns open to W 6eeling. No hand
bills OF posters indicate the fact, and though the
papers generally contain an advertisement stuck
up in one corfer, yet not one chance passenger in
fiitywill see it; while the handbils OF the Penn
sylyania Central, the New York and Erie, the
Albany and Buffalo Companys, and their connec-
tons with the Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michi-
gan Railroads and the Ohio River boats, are liter
ally sirewed in every Hotel, are scattered along
the highways and are thus forced into the hands
of every man seeking to learn the time and the a-
cilities Of the different Improvements. The same
is, to great extent, the fact in the South and
West. Runners and posters effect more in oneday
for the Pittsburgh and Ohio Railways in Cincinnati,
than the present advertisements of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad do them in week. This
H.. 1io on6i ha Srh0 h
lic who travel, should not only be informed of the
facilities for travel by this road Iutthe fact should
be prSseed upon them while they are travelling
Many travellers are comparatively Indifferent as to
the route they may take, and are undecided often
until an imposing handful turns the balance, and
the traveller does notpass over the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. This should not be. No effort
should be spared by that Company to induce trade
and travel to pass 1t, it can PROFESSIONALLY
compete in time and cost with any route whatever.
We heard gentleman say not long since, who had
recently taken long Northern trip, that he found
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Cumberland
10 Wheeling superior to any Road he had passed
over and all know the character of the Road East
Of Cumberland. The Directors need to be but
convinced. All know their devotion to the inter-
es!s Of their great line, and if we can but invite
them to an examination of the facts we have sta
ted, we doubt not ofthe result
The Union Line of steamers is properly part
of this great Improvement and should SO contin-
ue until western roads actually connected with
it. If the necessary efforts are male to direct
public attention to this road the Union Line will
be fer the most profitable on the Western waters. .
Baltimore is the third city in the Union. her cit
gems are behind those of no other city in the
Union, in the constancy ami effectiveness of their
sfTortsto advance her prosperity. Her commerce
witn the Old World is large and rapidly increas-
ing she has in herself, all the ements of prosper
iiy she wastbe first TO turn her eye to the Great
West and to oresee inIts giant products the germs
OF her future wealthand greatness, and with more
than giants, might she has.stemmed the mountain
torrents, scaled and tunheled the mighty hills and
spanned the yawning chasins, which sunder tho
waters Of the gull those Of The Atlantic, and
now that she has planted her Flagstaff on the
Ohio, when she has invpsted millions to accom-
plis Ter missions; shall, she not reap the iustre
ward Of her labors2 She canif shewill A little
timely attention TO apparently minor mattersi is \
all that is needed, and if the ueedfpl se are Ia
ken the B. & o. Railroad and the Union Line,
-courectns .at Louisville will soon connect with i
New. Orleans and 81. Louis
II.The Frederick Examiner states that cooper s
in that city made -four barrel recently in The
space of ten minutes, which was considered quick
wosk, whereupon MI. Harfison knight another
c9oPeE, qpdsrlQok for wager 70 make 3 barrel in
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