The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-17

OfMountnin, Down by Cool Waters, and
Otherwise Relieving the Tedium oi
Summer Travel by the Coolest Line Of
Hallway ON the Continent-Pictur.
esque b.. d ..
With the approach Of the genial glow Of
summer. the expanding blossoms OF May
time, flora, the gentle breezes, laden with
delicate fragrance OF budding sweets and
the delicious lahguor Of balmy atmosphere,
comes Picturesque D. & 0. with its new
schedule, its faster time and general batch
Of good things, from its regular summer
budget. 1t is fit and apropos that 30 rare
a line Of beauty as the B. & o. should an.
nounce its summer programme when
nature is alfred in its loveliest garb OF all
the year. Ordinarily railroads are hum.
drum subjects, good enough and certainly
indispensable in their way, but hardly a
topic TO base q poetic idyl upon, particular
ly when under the exquisite Influences OF
a dreamy day in May. Nevertheless there
is much in the B. & 0. 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 vie the one with
the other in forming parts OF a matchless
picture, painted by the master.hand Of
nature. The mountains girded by the
glittering bands Of steel, the foam.crested
waters spanned by bright cleaning rib.
bons OF the metal and the fields where the
daisies grow, the hill. sides from which the
blossoms send h%eavenward their fragrance
and the velvety carpet OF the valley-all as
truely betoken the presence OF that agency
without which so glorious a 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 & Ohio been CON
structed as it was, through the very garden
OF the continent-watered by the Potomac,
Shenandoah and the Youghiogheny, on.
ward and upward, until the cresis OF the
Blue Ridge and the noble old Alleghenies
almost kiss the clouds, then ~plungipg down
through CANON, DER chasm and beneath
towering masses, to the broad, open shores
Of the Ohio-had not the hand OF the B. 4
o. man done all this, what a journey would
have been lost to all men! Who, then can
say that thoughts Of the rare and ~unequaled
beauties lining every foot Of the B. & o.
way, from the Ohio to the sea, are not in
keeping with the spell thrown over Us by
the witchery OF the season? No railroad
in the werld compares with it for piCtur-
esque 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 not dreamed OF in
connection with other roads. Thus it be-
comes to many a matter OF personal graft.
fcation that the old favorite Daisy train
still shows her dainty heels to would-be
rivals to the troubling time OF seven hours
to Washington, and q corresponding &C.
tivity to all 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 the
evening, and reaches Washington next
day for dinner, a whole meal ahead OF all
other trains-the others not putting in an
appearance until supper time. TO Balti.
more the time saved is over four hours,
and Philadelphia and New York are reach.
ed in time for supper. The corresponding
train from the East to the West should
also have an appropriate name, and il the
one Is a Daisy the other is a Darling, sure
enough. Leaving New York ut seven in
the evening, and passing through Phila.
delpbia, Baltimore and Washington en-
routs, Cincinnati is reached early the next
evening in ample time for the connection
South and Southwest On the old seized.
ule 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 morn
ing, 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 B. & O. run. They
pass from Parkersburg to Cincinnati over
the old Marietta 4 Cincinnati line, now
greatly improved in every way, and known
10 the world as the Cincinnati, Washing.
ton & Baltimore Railroad. 1t Is q model
road in all it's details, and managed right
up TO the mark. From Cincinnati to st.
Louis the B. 80. trains pass over the
noted Western short line, the Ohio & Mis-.
sissippi. With a track as solid as the Rock
OF Gibraltar and a motive power celebrated
throughout railway circles for it's remark.
abe efficiency, the o. 4 NJ. has set the
pegs very high for rival lines in the way OF
fast time. The beauty OF it is thar the
road is so smooth and the line so level that
the passenger fairly flies without recogniz.
ing he Is going at hardly anything more
than a rather lively jog.
With It's direct interchanging lines, such
patterns OF railway management is no puz.
zle 10 account for the superiority OF the
b. & 0. over all other through routes be.
tween New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington and Cincinnati and St.
Louis While occupying an incompatible
position as regards the cities named, the
b. 90, enjoys equal distinction as a Chi.
cago line, 1t owning, controlling and oper.
atIng every foot OF the route from the
Atlantic to Lake Michigan and Lake Erie.
II Is the only line running It's trains
through from New York 10 Chicago and
Chicago TO New York with absolutely no
change whatever, and 1t was the B. 4 o.
that originated the term solid" trains and
%inaugurated the system. How successful
1t has proved is indicated by the
Imitator. "The Chicago Solid,n as
this train has become known, has
recently had added o superb new
dining car, which in roomy appointments
and novelties in the way Of tables, seats,
etc, Is unquestionably the "swellN dinner
Of the period. Like the new and magnla.
cent sIeepers, the dining halls on the line
and everything else pertaining to the road,
the n company owns and manages its
own dining car line; consequently there
are no outside corporations 10 live upon
passengers, and the latter deal in every
single instance with the B. 4 o. The old.
est passenger railway in the world, the B,
L o., can show a record for speed, for
safety, 70. prompt employment. Of every
new feature and for satisfying the public
wholly unparalleled. In the Language Of
an enthnaiastic Western admiFer. at In