Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-20
Information for Travellers.
By RAILROAD DIRECT 70 THE WEST
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Time Setween Weshinsten and Wheeling
!. but IL N hours: r.,., XXX.
Running Time between Warrington and
Cincinnati 81 hours y i-a
rHRovsH TICKETS AND BAGGAGE cHscKs TO BIZ
HAD IN wAsHINeToN.
THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAIL
L ROAD having greatly improved is Western
Travellers between WASHINGTON, BAITi.
MORE, and all portions Of the WEST, NORTH.
WEST, and the SOUTHWEST.
The connection between the Trains from Wash
ington and the Trains bound West from Balu-
more Is always promptly made at the Washington
Junction (lately called the Relay Housed miles
from Baltimore. This Is the only change Of cars
required between Washington and the Ohio river.
Baggage is checked through to Wheeling at the
Washington Station, and rechecked and trans
ferred there with the passengers without charge
for those holding Through Tickets for points be-
daily at a. m and AZ p. m. On Sundays at the
At WHEELING di,sc. eoxseetfos is made
| with the trains Of the CENTRAL OHIO RAIL
ROAD, running from Bellaire, on the Ohio, near
Wheeling, through Cambridge, GAINESVILLE, and
Newark, to COLUMBUS. These trains connect
at Newark with the cars Of the Newark, Mansfield
and Sandusky Railroad for Sandusky, Toledo,
Detroit, Chicago, st. Louis, etc.
At COLUMBUS the G. o. Railroad trains con-
meet with the fast trains Of the Little Mart Rail-
road to Xenia, Cincinnati, Louisville, etc. At
XENIA ION Little Miami Railroad) connection Is
formed with the trains through Dayton, to Indian
apolis, Terre Haute, Lafayette, Chicago, Rock
Island, St. Louis, etc.
IL Passengers holding Through Tickets for
Memphis, Vicksb~'g, Natehex, Ns~ Orleans,
etc, which are also sold at Washingten-are trans
| fened at Cincinnati to the Mail Steamers on the
Ohio. Tickets for Evansville, Cairo, and St.
Louis are sold by this route.
III For CLEVELAND, and via Cleveland to
Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, ETC., tickets sold
when the Ohio is navigable between Wheeling
and Wellsville (forty miles) where a connection
with the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad Is
made
Travellers are requested 10 notice that while this
IS the only route afording Through Tickets and
Checks In Washington, II is also the shortest,
most speedy, and direct to nearly all the leading
points in the great West. The distance from
Washington to Cincinnati Is but 653 miles, being
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WASHINGTON To Wheeling, 80 so; Colum-
bus, s13 IS; Dayton, SIS 50; Cincinnati, GIG 90;
Louisville, by railroad, S1S s5, by steamer from
Cincinnati, S18 90; Indianapolis, 81 50; Cleve-
Chicago, $40 IS and SIC SO; St. Louis, e5s 50 and
S25; Memphis, S26; New Orleans, S3l; etc.
III FOR FREDERICK AND HARPER'S
FERRY, MARTINSBURG, CUMBERLAND,
BERKLEY SPRINGS, BEDFORD SPRINGS,
PIEDMONT, OAKLAND, and PARAMOUNT,
passengers may l:ave Washington at a. m. OF
AZ D. IN. For the minor way stations between
Baltimore and Wheeling, take a. IN. train from
Washington.
IUFor trains to and from Baltimore, Annapolis,
U-For further information, Through Tickets,
80, apply to THOMAS H. PARSONS, Agent,
JOHN H. DONE,
Master Of Transportation,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Baltimore.
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