Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-07-31


374 Main street--R. c. Hite, agent II
PIrTsBURG CoAL-Briggs & Peterson,
Office Is Madison street. Branch Office,
34l Main street,. B. Moseley, agent
We are the only coal merchants who
weigh on the city scales.
The ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY, AND ITS CONNECTING LINKS
To THE TRAVELLING PUBLIC. AS the season
is now at hand when many of the readers
of your widely-read journal will be-
taking little recreation to the North
ward, some to New York, Boston, White
Mountains, Niagara Falls, etc.i and as it
is difficult to keep cool and comfortable,
we must look around us for the means
and conveyances that are the best
adapted to render us comfortable while
taking journey of some 1000 to 1900
miles. | am sure every one will agree
that there is more comfort where we have
room than in a contracted space-there
is more comfort and room on a large
vessel than there is on a small one-we
find more room, more space, greater
length and width on broad guage rail
road than a narrow one. Well then, this
brings US to the point-the atlantic d
Great Western and Nep York & Erie
Railiodys form an unbroken link of 500
miles of broad guage between Cincinnati
and New York, which is made without
any change of cars and the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad, the Atlantic and
Great Western, and New York and Erie,
form 1902 miles of broad guage from St.
Louis to New York, with only one change
of cars, viz: at Cincinnati; 1863 miles,
without change, and 1902 with only one,
in the finest cars that ever have been in
troduced to the railway traveller. Of the
Atlantic and Great Western, here is what
an exchange paper says:
TRAVELLERS, BEWARE AVOID IMPOSE
TIoN The lodges and shifts resorted to
by some railroad agents to obtain traffic
over circ1itOus and t-ofthe-tcay lines,
affords amusement to the knowing ones,
but often proves exasperating and ex-
pensive to the unsophisticated. A glance
at the advertisements in the various ho-
tells and public places will show the most
barefaced devices are many and varied.
For instance, the New York Central
railroad posters are headed, in large type,
mo change of carsr' These cards are
issued in Cincinnati, ST. Louis, Cairo,'
Cleveland, and Eastern, Western and
Southern cities generally, purporting to
give time and connections, and the nat
ural inference Of the unwary traveller is,
that there is no change of cars between
such points and New York. Passengers
who have in this manner been inveigled
to 60 over the road, relate dOleful cape
riences Of frequent and annoying
changes at unreasonable hours. Again:
the Pennsylvania Central railroad, Pan
Handle and Little Miami use the same,
only they say from 60 to 1859 miles
shorter distance quicker time, etc,
only line running lightning express
trains out of Cincinnati, arriving in New
York hours in advance" Now, if this
was all true, it would be very fine, but
our railroad education has not yet taught
us the india rubber principle of stretch
ing or contracting a railroad from 60 to
1859 miles.
This commotion among the old mon
opolies has been caused by new com
petitor in the railroad field, and one that
If it has no other merits, is making sad
havoc on the old accommodating style
of railroad travel in this country, We
allude to the Great Broad Gauge Allan
tic and Great Western Railway route.
A glance at their card and timetable
will show that they do have express trains
running out of Cincinnati, and that their
road is run from there and from CleUe-
land to New York as one institution, and
must, Ia consequence, make more regular
time than any line composed of halt a
dozen distinct corporations.
An examination of the time tables
published In the RailVdy Guide shows
that the trains on the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway take as little time be-
tween Western points and New York, as
by any other route, the difference in ar
irving time in New York between the
competing routes being accounted for by
the corresponding difference in the hours
of leaving Western points.
The great popularity that the Atlantic
and great Western route has obtained. is
from the fact that every one connected
with that institution seems to have an
interest in promoting the comfort OF the
! traveller Their cars are new, clean,
wide and roomY so that passengers are
not compelled to travel like herrings
packed in box. Especial care is taken
in handling baggage. They have en-
ployed competent baggage masters-not
baggage smashers and we know from
actual experience that their trains make
as prompt and quick time as any other
road in the United States.