The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-05-26
OYER THE CREST
Of Mountain, DOWN by Cool Wa
tcrs. and otherwise relieving
the tedium of Summer Travel
by the Coolest Line of Rail-
way ON the COntfme
turesque IL. & O..


way ON the CONFERENCE.-THE
turesque ID. 4 o.
With the approach of the genial
4 glow of summer, the expanding bios
SONS of May time flora, the gentle
breezes, laden with the delicate fra
GRANGE of budding sweets and the
delicious languor of balmy atmos-
phere, comes Picturesque b. d O..
with its new schedule, its faster time
and general batch of good things,
from its regular summer budget. 1t
is fit and apropos that so rare a line
of beauty as the b. d 0. should an
nounce its summer programme when
nature is attired in it's lovliest garb
of all the year. Ordinarily railroads
are humdrum subjects, good enough
and certainly indispensable in their
way, but hardly topic to base a
poetic idyl upon, particularly when
under the exquisite influences of a
dreamy day in May. Nevertheless
there is much in the B. d o. not in
congruous 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 part of match
less picture, painted by the master
hand of nature The mountains
girded by the glittering bands of
steel, the foam-crested waters span
ned by bright cleaning ribbons Of
the metal and the fields where the
daisies grow, the hill-sides from
which the blossoms send heavenward
their fragrance and the velyety car
pet of the valley, all as truly betoken
the presence of that agency without
which so glorious panoramic would
still, as of yore, be ccnfiAel 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
watered by the Potomac, the Shen-
andoah and the Youghiogheny, on
ward and upward, until tile crests of
the Blue Ridge and the noble old
Alleghenies almost 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
men! Who, then, can say that
thoughts of the rare and uneqnaled
beauties lining every foot of the b.
d 0. 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 world
compares with it for pictm esque love
Illness and mountain grandeur; and
the points relative to change of time
on the b. & o., to rev trains and TO
| the old, have an interest not dreamed
of in connection with other roads.
Thus it becomes to many matter
of personal qualification that the old
favorite Daisy train still shows her
dainty heels to Would-bc rivals to
the troubling time of seven hours to
Washington, and a corresponding ac-
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, whole meal ahead of all
other trains-the others not putting
in an appearance until supperti time.
To Baltimore the time saved is over
four hours, and Philadelphia and
New York are reached in time for
supper. The corresponding train
from the East to the West should
also have an appropriate name, and
if the one is Daisy the other is a
Darling, sure enough. Leaving New
York at seven in the evening and
passing through Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Washington en- route, Gin
cinnati is reached early the next
evening in ample time for the con
nection South and Southwest. On
the old schedule the time was some
two hours longer, and that much
later getting into Cincinnati. A sim
liar change in the order of things is
gained at st. Louis, as the train, with
its through sleeper from New York,
reaches the Culture 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 De-
pot, wherein all the through trains of
the b. Il O. run. They pass from
Parkersburg 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 Baltimore Railroad.
1t is model road in all it's details,
and managed right up to the mark.
From Cincinnati to St. Louis the B.
d 0. trains pass over the noted Yves
tern short line, the Ohio and Missis-
sippi. With track as solid as the
Rock of Gibraltar and motive power
celebrated throughout railway circles
for it's remarkable efficiency, the O..
u NJ. has set the pegs very high for
rival lines in the way of fast time.
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