Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-09-19
information for Travellers.
By RAILROAD DIRECT TO THE WEST.
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Time between Washington and Wheeling
but 1Tx hours!
Running Time between Washington and
Cincinnati 81 hours !!
THRousH TICKETS AND BAssAsK cHRcKs TO b
HAD IN WASHINGTON.
EINIE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAIL
L ROAD having greatly improved its Western
connections, offers the fullest inducements &c
Travellers between WASHINGTON, BALTI'
MORE, and all portions Of the WEST, NORTH.
WEST, and the SOUTHWEST. a-.
The connection betweep The Trains from Wash.
fngton and the Trains bound West from Balti-
more Is always promptly made at the Washington
Junction (lately called the Relay House) miles
from Baltimore. This Is the onlychange 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-
yond. The connecting Trains leave Washington
daily at a. IN. and AZ p. m. On Sundays at the
At WHEELING direct connection is made
with the trains Of the CENTRAL OHIO RAIL.
ROAD running from Bellaire, on the Ohio, neal
Wheeling, through Cambridge, GAINESVILLE, and
Newark, to COLUMBUS. These trains connect
at Newark with thecars of the Newark, Mansfield
and Sandusky Railroad for Sandusky, Toledo
Detroit, Chicago, st. Louis, etc.
At COLUMBUS the G. q. Railroad trains con-
meet with the fast trains Of the Little Miami Rail-
road to xenia, Cincinnati, Louisville, ETC. Al
XENIA ION Little Miami Railroad) connection is
formed with the trains through Dayton, to Indian
epolis, Terre Haute, Lafayette, Chicago, Rock
Island, ST. Louis, etc.
III Passengers holding Through Tickets for
Memphis, Vieks5Erg, NdteheE, Nep Orleans,
etc. which are also sold at Washington-are trans
ferred at Cincinnati tn the Mail Steamers on the
Ohio. Tickets for Evansville, Cairo, and St.
Louis are sold by this route.
u For CLEVELAND, and via Cleveland to
Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, etc, tickets are sold
when the Ohio ic naviGable between Wheeling
and Wellsville (forty miles, where a connection
with the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad is
made.
Is the only route aSording 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 from
washington to Cincinnati is but G53 rniles, being
about loo miles shorter than by any ether route
FARE, BY THROUGH TICKET, FROM
WASHINGTON TO Wheeling, 80 so; Column
bus, $l3 G5; Dayton, SIS so; Cincinnati, als 90;
Louisville, by railroad, s16 IS, by steamer from
land, si2 So; Toledo, al5 so; Detroit eis 90;
Chicago, $50 65 and $40 30; Ct. Louis, S2s 80 and
sGs: Memphis. sa6; New Orleans, s3i; etc
ID FOR FREDERICK AND HARPER'S
FIERY, MARTINsBURG, CUMBERLAND,
PIEDMONT, OAKLAND, and PARAMOUNT,
passengers may lsaTe Washington az 6 A. m or
AZ p. m. For the minor way stations between
baltimore and Wheeling, take j. m. traIa from
Wasningt
III For trains to and from Baltimore, Arz polls,
etc, see special advertisements
. IL FOR further Information, Through Tickets
30, epply TO THOMAS II. PARSONS, Agent,
ut Washington Station.
JOHN II. DONE,
Master CT Transportation,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Baltimore.
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