The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-07

Ghe9tttelliqerre
Over the Pennsylvania Railroad by
Daylight.

Over the Pennsylvania Railroad by
Daylight.
Probably the best specimen Of an
American highway 10 be found anywhere
is the Pennsylvania Railroad, between
Pittsburgh and New York. In solidity Of
construction, superiority Of bridge archi-
lecture, and smoothness Of track II Is IN.
rivsled. Throughout its entire length 1t
is laid with double track Of steel rails,
weighing sixty.seVen pounds 10 tho yard.
These rails are fastened on oak ties, i'm
bedded in.b broken stone ballast with splice
j oints between the ties, and 60 arranged
that the connection on one side comes op.
posite TO the centre oil the rail on the
other, thus preventing the uncomfortable
and monotinous jar experienced on tracks
constructed according to the ordinary
plan. The rolling stock Is as near
perfection as human ingenuity and skill
has up 10 the present time been able to
make it, Locomotives and cars are
alike built by the Company in their own
shops, and in the details Of materials,
deslgn, and. finish, combine the highest
excellence attainable. To all this 10 ad.
ded rigid policy Of management, exact
ing the utmost care and courtesy from
employees Of every grade, and the applica.
ton Of those effective sateguards-the
Westinghouse air.brake and the block
signal system-showiug that whatever
can be accomplished for the safety to
travellers has been done on this great line
Of roadway. "a -.T ..-..
This big b standard OF excellence hsv-
ing been reached, the managers Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad feel warranted in
taking another advance step for the spe-
Cial benefit OF through travel, and on the
LIST OF June commenced running fast
daylight train from Pittsburgh TO Phila-
delphia and New York, with close con-
nections at Harrisburg for Baltimore and
Washington, on the following schedule:
Leave Pittsburgh. 7:45 A.. NJ
nA....................1l:is
Harrisburg. ...".......... 325 r; n.
AHiVo baltimore ....".......... 65o
Warrington. g:09
Hhlledelphl4 ..".,...U..., $40
New YORK. ................. $50
The magnificent run Of four hundred
and forty-tour miles between Pittsburgh
and New York is made with but three
stoppages-the first, Of only five minutes,
at Altoona, after stretch oil one hundred
and seventeen miles; the second, Of twenty
minutes for dinner, at Harrisburg, after
an unbroken dash OF one hundred and
thirty.two miles, and the third and last,
OF only five minutes, at Philadelphia, after
a run Of one hundred and five miles, leav.
ing single stretch Of ninety miles across
New Jersey to destination. No time be-
ing lost in stopping, the wonderful loco
motive engines WORK away with the reg
uIarity OF fixed machinery-taking their
supply Of water from the track tanks as
they 60, and carrying their fuel with
them; and the time Is made by uniformity
OF progress more than by an increased
rate oil speed. The train Is made up Of
Pullman parlor cars and the best oil tie
company's day coaches, all splendidIy up.
holstered, mounted on combination
springs, and furnished with plate-glass
windows, through which the landscape
can be distinctly seen.
And here comes in the great charm of
this daylight ride through Pennsylvania,
Tor the train leaves Pittsburgh at q quar-
ter before eight In the morning and
reaches Philadelphia at quarter before
seven In the evening", 1t is no new thing
to say that the scenery on the line Of the
Pennsylvania road is beautiful, and, in
many places, grand. Every American
who travels or reads has seen or heard Of
1t, and the pencils OF many artists have
lsbored lovingly to portray, for popular
qualification, the attractions Of the Allie
gheny mountains; the Juniata, Susque.
hanna, and Conemaugh rivers, and the
wonderful agricultural wales Of Lancaster
and Chester counties, through which this
road runs. Long sweeps Of wooded hills;
lofty mountains and dark raVines; piclur.
csque valleys opening into each other;
sparkling and placid waters; wide rolling,
pastoral landscapes, follow in rapid sue.
cesSlon. A clang OF the bell, sinking
away in the rush Of the train, signals
town after town and village after village.
The dusty turnpike, the dreamy canal,
and the shaded by.roads are crossed and
passed in fash. On, on, on, goes this
ureless train, over clear track, carrying
the traveller by panorama, the like Of
which can be found nowhere else on this
continent, and probably not In the world.
Alter having breaklasted in the Mississlp-
pi valley and dlned at the capital Of Penn.
sylvania, the passenger finds himself
seated at supper in the metropolis oi,New
York, where the Atlantic throbs and
swells In Its ceaseless activity. ....
"a few years ago the man who should
have predicted such a ride would have
been pronounced utterly and hOpelessly
insane. Not even the most sauguine en-
thuSiast on railroads, when their con-
structton was commenced, dreamed oil
overcoming distance at such q rate; and
1t ia only because Of the perfection oil
machinery and the inventions OF science
that II can be done now. But II Ia fact
accomplished-A reality Of the day, and
all that Is left Tor the people is to wonder
and enjoy.
Miss MoLIIE BELL, daughter of David
Bell, Wheeling, Of Arlington Stove NO.
toriety Is rusticatlng few days and il
visiting the family Of Ira Lewis, at Lewis
Mills.
Miss Mamie Britt and Miss Mar
White, OF Wheeling, arc sojouring for