Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-20


and otherwise Relieving the Tctlium
ofSumner TrPVeI by tho Coolest Line
Of Railway on the COntinent-Pictur-
esfue Ii. & y.
With the approach OF the genial glow OF
summer the expanding blossoms OF May
time flora, the gentle breezrs, laden with
the delicate fragrance of budding sweets
and the delicious languOr of balmy atmos-
phere comes picturesque Ii. 4 o., with its
new schedule its faster time and general
batch Of good things from its regular sum-
mer budget. II is fit and apropos that so
rare line OF beauty as the b. n o. should
announce its summer programme when
nature is attired in its loveliest garb OF all
the year. Ordinarily railroads are hum.
drum subjects, good enough and Certanlyin-
dispensiblc in their way, but hardly topic
to base poetic i8yl upon, partiCu larly
when under the exquisite Influences OF a
dreamy day in May. Nevertheless there
is much in the b. Il q. not incongruOus
with the royal splendor Of early summer
time when the bloom upon the rose, the
apple blossoms and the peach, the emerald
sward and the daisy all vic the one with
the other. in forming parts of matchless
picture, painted by the master hand OF
nature. The mountains girded by the gilt
terirg bands of steel, the fOam-Crested
waters Spanned by bright cleaning ribbons
of the metal, aud the meadows where the
daisies grow, the hill.sides from which the
blossoms send heavenward their fragrance
and the velvety carpet OF the valley
all as truly betOken the presence of that
| agency without which 50 glorious a piano.
| rama would still. as Of yore, be confined TO
the selfish glare Of the sun by day and to
| the auteCTatic stare OF the stars by night.
Had not the Baltimore and Ohio been
tal fhrnnph
| garden of the Coniinent-watered by the
Potomac, the Shenandoah and the Iough-
! iogheny, onward and upward, until the
| crests Of the Blue Rdge and the noble old
| Allecanies almost kiss the clouds. then
plunging down through canon, Ger Chasm
and beneath towering masses to the broad
| omen shores os the Uhio-had not the hand OF
| the Il. Il O. man done all this, what Jour
| ney would have been lnst 10 all ESen!
| Who, then, can say that thoughts OF the
rare and uaeuuaed beauties lining every
| foot of the = y o. way from the Ohio to
! the sea, are not in keeping with the opell
| thrown over us by the witChery Of the
season NO railroad in the world COM
pares with il for picturesque loneliness
and mountain grandeur. and the points
relative 10 change OF time on the L. x o.,
to new trains and TO the old, have an in
| terest not dreamed Of n connection with
many matter OF personal gTatitica-
| ton that the old iavorite Daisy train
still shows her dainty heels to would.be
rivals 10 the troubling time OF seven hours
| to Washington, andts corresponding activ-
! ity 10 al eastern cities, or, in other words.
this matchless train making the fastest
long run known for years, leaves st. Louis
in the morning Cincinnati IN he evening,
and reaches Washington the aeGt day for
/ III. Il 81 If oil
trains-the othsIs not putting IN an ap-
pearance until sapper time 70 Baltimore
the time saved ID over fauF hours, and
Philadelphia asd New York are
rssched in tina for sup2es The cores
bonding tain from ths East 10
ihe West should also have an apprsQri-
ate name, and if the oas is. Daisy the
other is Darling sure enough. Leaving
| New York a. seven in the evening, and
passing through Philadelphia. BALTIMORE
and Washington en- route, Cincinnati IS
reached early the next evening q, ample
time fsE the connection South and south
| some Two hours longer. and thai much
!stsr getting into Cincinnati. a similar
change in the ords2 Of things IS gained al
ST. louis, as the train with Ms through
slssper from New York, reaches the "Fu'
iVre Great" essly the second morning N
sR abundance Of Gme to MAKE all the con
sections for the Wess and Soata
aud which connections are made
in the LAiOn Depot, wherein all th.
.shrough trains of the y i q. run. They
, psss from Psrkersbure 10 Cincinnati oyel
| the old Marietta aud Cincinnati line nos
greatly improved in every way. aud knsSl
20 the world as the Cincin natl, Washington
and baltimore Railroad. 1t is mode
road in all its details, and managed RICH
up 70 The mark. From Gnsinnsti TO 81
Louis the b q o trains pass over the o
ted Western short line, the Ohio and Vii,
sissirri. Withs track rs solid as the Roc
Of Gibrsltsr and motive power Celebrate
throeFho at railway circles for its remark
sh,e efficiency the O & u. has set the pa