Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13


j. G. Easton and wife to Jas. Kennedy.
SEA of SW+ of Sec. ~, town 104, range
IA. Con. 1912.
Illustrated book of cage birds mailed for
3 cent stamp. Bird Food Co., 237 South
9Th St.. Philadelphla.
OVER THE CREST
OF Mountain, down by Cool Waters, and
otherwise relieving the tcdium of Sum-
mer Travel by the Coolest Line of Rail-
way ON the Continent--P b. Il o.
With the approach of the genial glow
of summer, the expanding blossoms of
May time tlora the gentle breezes, laden
with the delicate fragrance of budding
sweets and the delicious languor of balmy
with its new schedule, its faster time and
general batch Of good things, from its
regular summer budget. 1t is fit and aprO-
pos that so rare a line of beauty as the 3.
& o. should announce its summer pro-
gram when nature is attired in the love-
Hest garb of all the year. Ordinarily rail
roads are humdrum subjects. good enough
and certainly indispensable in their way,
but hardly a topic to base poetic idyl
upon, particularly when under the exqui-
site influences of dreamy day in May.
Nevertheless there is much in the B. & 0.
not homogeneous with the royal splendOr
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 picture, painted by
the master-hand of nature. The noun
tains girded by the glittering bands of
steel, the foam crested waters spanned by
bright cleaning ribbons of the metal and
the fields where the daisies grow, the hill
sides from which the blossoms send heav-
onward their fragrance and the velvety
carpet of the valley,-all as truly beteken
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 net the Baltimore and Ohio been
constructed as it was, through the very
garden of the continent-watered by the
Potomac, the Shenandoah and the You
ghiogheny, onward and upward, until the
crests of the Blue Ridge and the noble
old Alleganies almest kiss the clouds, then
plunging down through canon, DER chasm
and beneath towering masses, to the
broad open shores of the Ohio-had not
the hand of the B. & 0. man done all this,
what a journey would have been lost to
all menl Who, then, can say that thoughts
of the rare and unequaled beauties lining
Ohio to the sea, are not in keeping with
| the spell thrown over us by the witchery
| of the season? No railroad in the world
compares with it for picturesque lowell
ness 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 con-
nection with ether roads. Thus it be-
comes to many q matter of personal graft
fication 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
St. Louis in the morning, Cincinnati in
the evening, and reaches Washington
next day for dinner, whole meal ahead
of all other trains-the others not putting
in an appearance until -supper-time. To
Baltimore the time saved is over four
hours, and Philadelphia and New York
are reached in time for supper. The cor
responding train from the east to the
west should also have an appropriate
name, and if the one is Daisy the other
is Darling, sure enough. Leaving New
York at seven in the evening, and passing
through Philadelphia, Baltimore 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 B. & O. run. They pass from Parkers-
burg to Cincinnati over the old Marietta
and Cincinnati line, now greatly improved
in every way, and known to the world as
the Cincinnati, Washington and Balti-
it's details, and managed right up to the
mark From Cincinnati to St. Louis the
B. & o. trains pass over the noted Wes-
tern short line, the Ohio and Mississippi
With track as solid as the Rock of Gi-
braltar and a motive power celebrated
throughout railway circles for its remark
able efficiency, the 0. & NJ. has set the
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 any
thing more than q rather lively jog.
With its direct interchanging lines, such
patterns of railway management is no
the B. & o. over all other through routes
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