Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-03
Information for Travellers.
BIZ RAILROAD DIRECT 70 FEy vTsT
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Time between Washington and WheeI,nx
Running Time between Washington and
49, Cincinnati "a hours y
THROUGH TICKETS AND BAGGAGE CHICKS TO nE
HAD IN WASHINGTON.
THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAIL
Il ROAD having greatly improved its Western
connections, offers the fullest Inducements to
Travellers between WASHINGTON, BALTI-
WEsE and ana al, petitions Of the WEST NORTH
The connection betweeQfhe Trains from Wash
ington and the Trains bound West from Balti-
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 al the
washington Station, and rechecked and trans
for those holding Through Tickets for points be-
yond The connecting Trains leave Washington
daily at a m and AZ p. m. On Sundays at the
latter hour only
At WHEELING direct eonneeffo. is made
with the trains Of the CEN 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 c. o. Railroad trains con-
meet with the fast trains Of the Littl. MANN 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 HATTIE, Lafayette, Chicago, Rock
Island, St. Louis, etc
III Passengers holding Through Tickets for
Memphis, VieksbNrg, Ndtchez, Nstr Orleans
etc, which are also sold at Washington-are trans.
ferred at Cincinnati to the Mail Steamers on the
Ohio. Tickets for Evansville, Cairo, and ST.
Louis are sold by this route
ID For CLEVELAND, and via Cleveland to
Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, etc, tickets are sold,
when the Ohio is navigable between Wheeling
and Wellsville (forty miles) where q connection
with the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad is
made.
is the only route affording Through Tickets and
Checks in Washington, IL is also the shortest
most speedy, and direct to nearly all the leading
points In the great West. The distance froIa
washington to Cincinnati is but 653 miles, being
about lOO miles shorter than by any other route,
FARE, BY THROUGH TICKET, FROH
WASHING TON To Wheeling, 80 50; Caaum-
bus, Sl3 Isl Dayton, SIS 50; Cincinnati, els O0s
Louisville, by railroad, SIS IS, by steamer from
Cincinnati, S1s %; indianapolis, Sl7 SC; Cleve-
Land, sl2 so; Toledo, SIS so; Detroit, els 20;
Chicago, 800 IS and Sl9 so; st Louis, 90 50 and
S25; Memphis, S26; New Orleans. S3l; etc
VI FOR FREDERICK AND HARPER;S
FERRY, MARTINSBURG, CUMBERLAND.
PIEDMONT, OAKLAND, and PARAMOUNT
passengers may leave Washington at a m or
AZ p. m. For the minor way stations between
Baltimore and Wheeling, take a. m. train from
Washington.
IL For trains to and from Baltimore. Annapolis.
etc, see special advertisements.
D>For further information, Through Tickets,
&c, apply to THOMAS H. PARSONS, Agent
at Washington Station.
JOHN H. DONE,
Master Of Transportation,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Baltimore
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