The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-02-18

ted memorial volume of the excursion, re-
| Gently published in Baltimore, they give their
opinion of the roads controlled and managed
by that company in no stinted terms Of
praise.
At Chicago, their historiographer states,
they were formally handed over to the care of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and its
guests, and " from that moment" in his own
language, at is hardly necessary to say, their
well-being was assured. The comprehensive
care, the patient regard for comfort, the
systematic management, the admirable disci-
pine of that magnificent corporation became
at once apparent" The invariable standards
for the guidance of the officials of the road
were "celerity, order, common sense, and
line ga most excellent supper was ready for
Them" eft was a supper fit for the most
fastidious epicure that ever put his legs tinder
mahogany. And there was time to enjoy it /:
time to eat like conference.-the connoisseurs,
instead of boiling like pigs, or being crammed
like strasbourg geese. There was respectfor the
digestive apparatus as well as for the palate,
and so that night there was wholesome sleep
| in the Pullman cars, and no capering about on
Nightmares. Evidently the good Bonifaces
employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company to run its station hotels understand
how it is as well as Peter Pindar, who said -
q. The turnpike road to peoples hearts, find, 81
Lies through their mouths, or mistake manknd.'n
Hurriedly CHANGING at and commencing the
facilities, industries, and attractions on the
main road, to which they were transferred
from the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago,
at Pittsburg, the excurtionists arrived at Al
toona. The historiographer of the party
rode on the locomotive over the Allegheny
mountains, and eloquently describes the OK
element of the ride. In continuation, he
adds =
And it will be easy for the reader to be-
lieve that, while blazing along this way, wes
were grateful for track without flaw, for a
succession of bridges as solid as the rock-rib.
bed hills, for tlagmen at every curve of any
DETECTION, no matter how slight With the
intensely microscopic eye which the occasion
instantly furnished me- watched the track.
anti never saw speck, a flaw, or a defect for
sixty miles,
The narrative then proceeds with descrip-
ton of Altoona and the shops of the railroad
company located there. These "were sue
cessivcly examined by the visitors, who were
amazed beyond description at the enormous
capabilities for production everywhere reveal
ed. To see locomotive engines in every stage
of construction, the most complex as well as
the simplest portions of which are made on
the spot; to see Pullman cars of the most
magnificent characters from the skeleton
perfection, was astonishing. But to be told,
besides, that notwithstanding these vast me-
chanical appliances--this untold consumption
of iron and Steel and brass and timber, and
costly woods and upholstery, these thousands
of busy hands, this skilful regulation of Ia
Dor, this systematic distribution of time--the
company cannot complete its needful equip
ment, but is constantly obliged to go else
where to purchase additional engines and cars.
it was bewildcring. But the wear and tear of
a road that has three thousand freight cars
running daily to meet the requirements of
eiohoPOi oooioii 10 lilCdiSuldUic.
Four hours were spent in these shops, and
then " the dinner at the Logan House. an es
tabiishment which enjoys a national reputa-
ton, atlording another illustration of the
thorough and most acceptable manner in which
the company's hotels are not only prepared to
return the travelling public the q,id pro quo,
but to remind them; as they resume their
seats for tlleir onward journey, of the con-
tentment expressed by Sydney Smith,
- sereney fnll the cpcurc may say
rate cannot harm mel have dined to-day"
The same AFTERNOON the party left Altoona,
profoundly impressed with the magnitude of
the operations of the gigantic corporation of
which it is so fitting a type. Transferred to
new parlor cars fresh from the shops, resplen-
dent with beauty and replete with solid COM
fort, they are equally impressed with the lib
erality OF the company in its expansive pro-
vision for the qualification as well as the safe
ty OF the travelling public" Dashing through
the Juniata valley on "train that meant
business the cxcuisionists lad only :,
glance ahead and receding flash of town
after town, stream after stream; mountain
after mountain" On through the shadow
northumberland narrows through {" tbe TINS
carora valley, where the scenery o the river.
with its moss islands, its graceful windinns
among the mountain slopes, its many-hued
and thickly interlacing foliage, its wild ravines
and craggy promontories, bewilder the behold
er with their beauty and their grandeur ,,
by the isle-crowded Susquehanna. and
across it on zone of the most beautiful speci-
mems of viaduct architecture III the United
States, F" the train rushed, pausing not until it
drew up in tbs depot at Harrisburg. "From
Altoona to Harrisburg one hundred and tbir-
ty-two miles" the iron-horse "had travelled
in the brief space of three hours and fifteen
minutes, without single stoppage ora single
interruption. Truly the capabilities of steam
under such intelligent guidance are wonder
full Here the party were transferred 10 cars
on the Northern Central Railroad. and after
another uninterrupted run of two hours and
half, arrived safely in Baltimore. having
travelled on the Pennsylvania Railroad and its
great tributary the Northern ca,., : he