Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-18

With the approach of the genial glow oil
summer, the expanding blossoms OF May
time dora, the gentle breezes, laden with the
delicate fragrance of budding sweets and The
delicious languor Of balmy atmosphere, comes
picturesque Baltimore aud Ohio with lts new
schedule, its faster time and general batch
Of good things, from its regular summer bud
get. 1t is fit and spropss that 80 rare line
OF beauty as the Baltimore and Ohio should
announce its summer programme when ma
.ture is attired 10 its loveiest garb of all the |
yesr. Ordinarily railroads are humdrum /
subjects, good enough and certainly indis. |
pensabe in their way, but hardly topic 10 |
base poetic idyl upon, particular
" when under the exquisite iuhu- |
ences of dreamy day in May. Never
theless there is much in the Baltimore and |
Ohio not homogeneous with the royal splendor |
of early summer time, when the bloom upon |
the rose, the sppls blossoms and the peach, |
the emerald award and tins daisy, all vie the |
one with the other in forming parts OF
matchless picture, painted by the master
hand Of nature. The mountains sirded BY !
the glitteriug bands of steel, the fcsn- |
crested waters spsnned by bright cleaning !
ribbons Of the metal and the fields where the |
4 aisies grow, the hillsides from which the |
blossoms send heavenward their fragrance
and the velvely carpet OF the vslley-ail as
truly betoksn the presence OF that agency
without which SO glorious panorama would
still, as of yore, be confined to the selfish
glare OF the sun by day, and to the autocratic
cold stare of the stars BY night. Had not
the Baltimore and Ohio been constructed as
it was, through the very garden OF the
continent-w altered by the Potomac,
the Shenandoah and the Yong hiogheny,
onward and upward, until the Greats
of the Blue Ridge and the noble old Allie
ghanies almost kiss the clouds, then pluug-
ing down through canon, DER chasm and be-
meath towering masses, to the broad open
shores of the Ohio-had not the hand OF the
Baltimore and Ohio nan done all this, what
journey would have been lost to all men
VINO, then, can say that thoughts OF the rare
and nnequaled beauties lining every foot OF
the Baltimore and Ohio way, from the Ohio
to the sea, are not in keeping with the spell
thrown over Us by the witchery OF the sea.
son? No railroad in the world compares
with it for picturesque loveliness and noun
tain grandeur; aud the points relative to
change of time on the Baltimore and Ohio,
to new trains and to the old, have an inter-
est not dreamed of in connection with other
roads. Thus it becomes 10 many matter OF
personal qualification that the old favorlte
Daisy train still shows her dsintysheeis to
would.be rivals TO the troubling time oil
seven hours to Washington, and cor
responding activity to all Eastern citiesi or,
in other words, this matchiess tram max
ing The fastest long run known for years,
leaves st. Louis in the morning, Cincinnati
in the evening, aud reaches W Washington next
day for dinner, q whole meal ahesd OF all
other trains-the others not putting in an
appearance until supier.time. 10 Balll,
more the time saved is over 1our hours, ana
Philadelphia and New York are reached IN
time for supper The corresponding tram
from the East to the West should also have
an appropriate name, and il the one ID
"daisy," the other is darling" sure enough.
Leaving New York at o'clock in the even
ing, and passing through Philadelphia, Bal
timore and Washington en- route, Cincinnati
is reached early the next evening, in ample
time for the connection south and south
west. On the old schedule the time was
some two hours longer, and that much later
getting into Cincinnati. A similar change in
the order of things is gained at st. Louis, as
the train, with its through sleeper from New
York, reaches the "Future Great" early the
second morning, in an abundance OF time to
| make all the connections for the West and
| South, and which connections are made In
| Union Depot, wherein all the through trains
/, of the Baltimore and Ohio run. They pass from
Parkersburg to Cincinnati over the old Mari
proved in every way, and known 10 the world
as the Cincinnati, Washington and Balti-
| more railroad. 1t is q model road in all its
details, and managed right up TO the mark.
From Cincinnati to 81. L9uis the Baltimore
and Ohio trains pass over the noied Western
short line, the Ohio and Mississippi. With
q track as solid rs the Rock of Gibraltar
and motive power celebrated throughout
railway circles for it's remarkable efficiency,
the Ohio and Mississippi has set its pegs very
| high for rival lines in the way of fast time.
The beauty of it is that the road is SO smooth
and the line SO level that the passenger fairly
| flies without recognizing he is going at
hardly snytking more than a rather lively
Jog:
With its direct iuterchapging lines, such
patterns OF railway management, it is no puz-
zle to account for the superiority of the Bal
| timore and Ohio over all-othsr through
routes between New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington and Cincinns att
and st. Louis. While occupying an incsm-
parable position as regards the cities named,
the Baltimore and Ohio enjoys equal dis
tinction as Chicago line, 1t owning, con-
trolling and operating every foot of the route
from the Atlantic TO Lake Michigan and
Lake Erie. II is the only line ruonirg its
trains through from New York to Chicago
and Chicago to New York with absolutely
no change Of cars whatever, and it was the
Baltimore and Ohio that originates the
term solid" trains and inaugursted the sys-
| tenn. How successful il hiss proved is indi-
Gated by the imitators. "Ihe Chicago Solid"
as this train has become known, has recently
had added superb new dining car, which in
| roomy appointments and novelties 10 the way
| OF tables, seats, etc, is unquestionsbly the
swell" dinner of the period. Like the new and
magnificent sleepers, the dining halls on the
line and everything else pertaining to the
road, the one company owns and manages its
own dining car line; consequently there are
no outside corporations TO live upon pssseu-
gers, and the latter deal in every single in
stance with the Baltimore and Ohio. The
Oldest passenger railway in the world, the
Baltimore and Ohio can show a record for
speed, for safety, for prompt employment Of
every new feature, and for satisfying the
public wholly unparalleled. In the Ian.
gusge of an enthusiastic Western sdmirer,
1t Is the boss road, and doA'tjyou forget i'll"