Weekly Phoenix herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory [Ariz.]) 1882-1896, 1883-05-24
OVER THE CREST
of Mountain Down by Cool Wa
tie =. by the VI Ost Picturesque
Line on the Continent, the
Baltimore and OHIO.


glow of summer, the expanding bio
SONS of May time flora, the gent
breezes, laden with the delicate fra
GRANGE Of budding sw eetB and tn
delicious uguor of balmy atmos
phere, comes Picturesque b & q
with its new schedule, its faster tin
and general batch of god things
from its regular u.nmer budget.
is fit and aprOpoS that so rare Il line
of beauty as the B. & o. should an
nounce its summer programme when
nature in its laveliest garb of all the
year. Ordinarily, railroads are hum
drum subjects, good enougr AID Ger.
tainly Indispensable in their way.
but har ly lopil TO base po' tlca!
idyl upon, particularly whel under
the exquisite influences of dielmy
days in May. Nevertheless there is
much in the 3 & .. not incongru-
ous with III. royal splcador Of carly
summer TIM, when the bloom upon
the rose, the apple Blossoms and the
| peach, the emerald sward and the
daisy all vie the one with the Other
in forming parts of matchless pic@-
u'e, pain ed by the IN lster h md of
natIIe. The mountains girded by
the glittering banl~ of steel, the
foam crested wa'ers spanned by
bright cleaning ribbons of the m tai
and the fields where the daises grow,
the hill sides srosn which the b,os-
SONS send heaven ward their fra
GRANGE and the velvety carpet of the
vailey,-all as truly bet"ken the
presence of that agency without
which SO glorious panorama would
still, a, of yore, be confined TO the
selfish glare of the sun by day and
10 the aItocratic cold stare of the
stars by night.
Had not the Baltimore AMI Ohio
been Constructed as it was, through
the very garden of the Continent
altered by the Potomac, the Shenan-
doah and The Ye Ighiogheny, on
ward and upward, until tue crestS of
the Blue Ridge and the noble 0 d
Ale hanies almost kiss the clouds,
then plugging down through canon,
DER chasms, and beneath towering
masses, to the broad, open shores of
the Ohio-had not the hand of the
B & O. man done all this, what !
journey would have been lost to all |
men! W no, then, can say that
thoughts OF the rare and uucqualed |
beauties lining every loot of the B.
Il o. way, from the Ohio to The sra
are not in keeping with the spell |
over Us 10y the witchery of the sea-
son? No railroad in the world,
with it fpr picturesque
loneliness and mountain grandeur; |
and the points relative to change of |
time on the B & O., to new trains
and TO the old, have an interest net |
dreamed of in connection with other
r ads. Thus ii becomes to many
matter of personal gratificatio ion that |
The old favoritc Daisy train sti /
shows her dainty heels 10 would>be
rivals o the troubling time of seven
hours to Washington, and a c0r>
activity to all Eastern
cities; or, in other words, this match
less train making The fastest long
run known for years, leaves St. Louis
n the morning, Cincinnati in the
evening, and reaches W ashington
lext day for dinner, whole meal
head of all other lrains-thc others
lot putting III an Appearance until
t. Ba itinore the
ime saved is over four hours, and
Philadelphia and New York are
cached in time for supper. The
train from the East
o tTe West should also have an APP
,ropriate name, and if the one is
|
nough Leaving New York at seven
n the evening, and passing through
Philadelphia, Bait more and Wash
ngton en- route, Cincinnati is reach-
d early the next evening in amply
ime for the connection South and
outhwest. On the old schedule
lie time was two hours longer, an d
hat much later getting into Cine in
lti. A similar change in the order
things is CAMEL at St. Louis, as
he tsain with its through sleeper
ON New York reaches the Future
reat" early the second mora in5, in
I abundance of tim to make all
Ie connections for the West aud
oath, ani which connections are
ade in Union Depot, wherein all
lie throug trains of he B. & o. run.
hey pass from Park rsburg to
Incinnati over the oil VI lrietta and
ncinnati line, nov gre .tly i'm
owed in cv-ry WY, an | kI)vn 10
e world as the Cincinnati, W .sh
gton & Baltimore Rlilro m. 1t i
m )del rod in all its details, aud =
right up TO the marx. =
rom Cincinnati to St. L >uis, the B.
O, trains pass over the noted Wes'-
II short line, the Obi Is VI ssISsip.
With track u. solid as the
ock of Gibraltar and Il m >tive pow
celebrated throughout railway
relies for its remarkab'e efficiency,
e o e NJ has set the pegs very ;
Ugh for rival lines in the way of Il
st time. The beauty of it is that c
e road is so smooth and the line 81 I
vel that the pass niger fairly flies
thout recognizing thrt h is going y
hardly anything more than g
vely log. u
With itS 6iracf irtnrc |, n N n ;,1o lipac s.