Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-11-19
From the Toledo blade.
The New Route to st. Louis.
SHORT LINE-vIA DECATUR.


The Toledo, Wabash & Western is one of
the great railroad corporations of the country.
Its eastern terminus is Toledo but il has four
terminal points in the West, VIZ Kcokuk, To-
wa; Quincy, Illinois Hannibal, Mo. st. Lou
is, Mo. AT Keokuk ii connects with the Dos
Moines Valley Road, and through it with the
Chicago and Northwestern to Omaha, passing
through the heart Of Iowa At Quincy it
strikes the Hannibal and st. Joe Road and
makes all points in Kansas, and with the ST.
Joe and Council Bluffs Road, direct conncc-
tion with the Union Pacific and the entire
Stale Of Missouri. Leaving the Quincy line at
Bluff City, n branch goes direct to Hannibal,
Mo-, thence over the new Hannibal and Mo-
bcrly Road to Kansas City and Lcavenworth,
making by this route an almost air line from
Toledo TO Kansas City. These three terminal
points control large portion of the West.
This Company has now completed its road
from Decatur, ILL.,, 10 East st. Louis, making a
direct continuous line fIom the head of Lake
Erie to 81. Louis, without break or change of
cars.
The completion of this connection is an
event in the hi.t)rJ Of Railroads in this coun-
try. st Louis is the chief city on the Missis-
slplii u ls tnc polnb Ol ucpartuTS LOT tue vast
territory IN the west. A line OF road stretcl-
ny from Lake Eric To the Mississippi passing
through two of the greatest of The States, cam
not but be considered as one of the great en-
ttrpriscs OF the country, as by its new cOnncc.
ton 1t transports passengers from the great
Lakes 10 the great river without change Or de-
my.
The Wabash route is now prepared as well
for passenger traffic Hs any road in the United
States, and the completion of this most impor-
tant connection gives il II hold upon business
which ii has heretofore made no special effort
to secure.
BY this line the distance from Toledo to st.
Louis is only one hundred and thirty miles The
old Wabash road through the heart OF Indiana
and eastern Illinois Is used to Decatur, Illinois,
where the new line branches oil, passing coun-
ties and towns rs follows: Macon county,
chief town Decatur; Christian coinly chief
town TayorviIle; Maooupen county, chief
town Staunton Madison county, chief town
Edwardsyillc
through tho garden of Indiana, and the por-
tion OF Illinois that 1t penetrates is the best
and richest. The counties We have specified
are not exceeded in the United States in point
OF wealth, of soil and natural beauty.
The Company's officers have made ample
arrangements To properly accommodate the
immense tide of travel that will naturally SCI k
this avenue. They have placed upon the road
new and elegant passenger coaches, fitted up
regardless OF expense, the ruling ideas being
comior and safety. There is absolutely moth
ing lacking In their cars. The orni,Inentalion
IS rich and chastc. the seats are not only beau
tiful but luxurious, and the heating apparatus
Is the best we have ever seen. To so fine point
have they brought this important item that
| every passenger may have almost the precise
Temperature lxvlerred.
Tho Wabash has bridge spanning the Mis-
slssippi NJ Quincy, and Is building two more,
one at Ke0kuk and one at Hannibal The
Quincy bridge Is magnificent structure and
the others Me 10 he not inferior It.
| The sleeping cars now on the read are PULL
MANS best, but the Company are building six
In their shops In Toledo that excel Pullman 5
best In almost every particular, The finishing
ana furnishing are superb, and every convt-
nisnce that has ever been devised Is made use
| Of
being built, are finished, the passenger from n
York to any point in the West, may get in hi,
seat at the Hudson River Depot, and never
Leave IL Till he reaches IT, Louis.
The officers Of the trains are mtelligepi
obliging gentlemen, who feel that II Is par
OF their duty 10 make those In their care com
Portable.
The track of the Wabash is In most excel
lent order. Ths road has been thoroughly
ballastd, the defective iron and ties ali remOy '
cd. and the best and heaviest put in thei
place. The road is smooth over its entr,
lengtil,. andlso well built rs to make the high
est rate Of speed safe. The condition Of In,
track, with tho eare exercised In the consiruc
'ion of the Cans on. the line. relieve ths travel
er Of the constant feeling OF danger one expe
I riences on roads less carefully constructed anS
less conaclentionsly managed.
The new depols at st. Louis are the mos
eommodious In that city. The Company hay,
constructed new passenger depot at the ferr,
and the Transit Company have built new AM
complete equipment of omnibusses and bag
gage Wagons especially Tor this road, whicl
: run to every parl Of the city, 10 private house
and hotels. Ms well Us 10 depots of other rail
roads
Al ST. Louis. direct and close connection
are made with the North Missouri, MissouI
Pacific, Southern Pacific, Iron Mountain, an
elher lines 10 the West and the Southwest, al
20 with first class steamers for Memphis an
New Orleans, aud tho intermediate points o
the Mississippi.