Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-06
Information for Travellers.
By RAILROAD DIRECT TO THE WEST
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Time between Washington and Wheeling
| s.fI but IL hours! ~
Running Time between Warrington and
| Cincinnati 81 hours y
| THROUGH TICKETS AND BAGGAGE CHICKS 70 b
| -~. HAD IN WASHINGTON. r.-
THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAIL
1 Il ROAD having greatly improved Its Western
connections, now offers the fullest inducements to
Travellers between WASHINGTON, BALTI-
| MORE and all portions of the WEST, NORTH.
WEST, and the SOUTHWEST.
| The connection between the Trains from WASH
| fngton and the Trains bound West from Balti-
more is always promptly made at the Washington
| Junction flately called the Relay House) 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 trans5
errs Soss .h the without share
yond The connecting Trains leave Washington
daily at Q a. m. and Ak p. m. On Sundays afthe
At WHEELING dirse. eonnees,o~ 1. made
with the trains of the CENTRAL OHIO RAIL-
ROAD, running from Bellaire, on the Ohio, near
Wheeling, through Cambridge, GAINESVILLE, and
at Newark with the cars of the Newark, Mansfield
and Sandusky Railroad for Sandusky, Toledo,
Detroit, Chicago, st. Louis, etc. 90 q. ,
At COLUMBUS the G. q. Railroad trains con-
meet with the fast trains Of the Little aani Rail-
road to Xenia, Cincinnati, Louisville, etc At
XENIA ION Little Miami Railroad) connection is
formed with the trains through DAYTON to Indian
aPolis, TeTe Haute, Lafayette, Chicago, Rock
III Passengers holding Through Tickets for
Memphis, FicLsbrrg, Nafehez, Ne,s Orleans,
etc. which are also sold at Washington trans.
ferTed at Cincinnati to the Mail Steamers on the
Ohio. Tickets for Evansville, Cairo, and st.
Louis are sold by this route. 80 :
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 a connection
with the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad is
made.
Travellers are requested to notice that while this
Is the only route ahording Through Tickets and
Checks in Washington, 1t 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 6S3 miles, being
about 100 miles shorter than by any other route
FARE, BY THROUGH TICKET, FROM
bus, Si3 Is; Dayton, SIS SO; Cincinnati, e1s co.
Louisville, by railroad, S15 IS, by steamer from
Cincinnati, S1S 90; indianapolis, S17 50; Cle7e-
land, S12 SO; Toledo, sl5 so; Detroit, e15 20;
Chicago, $40 IS and a19 so; st. Louis, S2s SO and
SIS Memphis n s2e; New C Orleans, sal etc;
FERRY, MARTINSBURG, CUMBERLAND,
BERKELEY SPRINGS, BEDFORD SPRINGS,
PIEDMONT, OAKLAND, and PARAMOUNT,
passengers may leave Washington at a. m. or
Ak p. m. For the minor way stations between
Baltimore and Wheeling, take a. IA. train from
Washington.
lD-For trains to and from Baltimore, Annapolis,
etc. see special advertisements.
ITFOr further information, Through Tickets,
30, apply to THOMAS H. PARSONS, Agent,
at Washington Station. :.
JOHN II. DONE,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Baltimore.
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