The daily gazette., 1883-05-17
OVER THE CREST

OF Mountain, Down by the Cool waters,
and Otherwise Relieving the Tedium of
Summer Travel by the Coolest Line of
Railway on the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
B. SO.
With the approach of the genial glow of
summer. the expanding blossoms of May
time flora, the gentle breezes, laden with
the delicate fragrance Of budding sweets and
the delicious languor of balmy atmosphere,
comes Picturesque B. 81 o. with its new
schedule, it's faster time and general batch
of good things, from its regular summer
budget. 1t is fit aud apropos that so rare
line of beauty as the b. u o. should an
Dounce its summer program when nature is
attired in its lOvliest garb of all the year.
| Ordinarily railroads are humdrum subjects,
| good enough and certainly indispensable in
their way, but hardly a 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. IL o. not incongruous with the royal
| splendor Of early summer time, when
the bloom upon the rose, the apple bios
SONS 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
mountains girded by the glittering bands of
steel, the toam. 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 heaven
ward their fragrance and the velvetry car
pet of the valey-all as truly betoken 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 not the Baltimore & Ohio been con-
| structed as 1t was, through the very garden
of the continent-watered by the Potomac,
the Shenandoah and the Youghiogheny, on.
ward and upwfrd, until the crests of the
Blue Ridge and the noble old Alleganies al
most kiss the clouds, then plunging down
! through canon, Ger chasm and beneath
| towering MASSES, to the broad, open shores
of the Ohio-had not the hand of the B e.
y. man done all this, what 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. Il o.
wav, from the Ohio to the sea, are not In
keeping with the spell thrc wn over us by
| the witchery OF the seasOn2 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. 81 O.,
to new trains and to the old, have an inter
est not dreamed OF in connection with other
roads. Thus it becomes to many matter
| of personal qualification that the old favor
ite Daisy train still shows her dainty heels to
would-be rivals to the troubling time OF
seven hours TO Washington, and a cores
| ponding activity 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 he
evening, and reaches Washington next day
Tor dinner, a whole meal ahead of all other
trains-the others not putting in an appear
ance until supper time. To Baltimore the
time saved is over four hours, and Philadel-
phia and New York are reached in
time for supper. The corresponding
train from the Fast 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 o'clock in
the evening, and passing through Phiadel-
phia, Baltimore and Washington, en- route,
Cincinnati is reached early the next even
ing in ample time for the connection South
and Southwest. On the old schedule the
time was some two hours longer, and that
mu"h latter 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 IL
{ Union depot, wherein all the through train,
! of the B. & o. run. They pass from
( Parkersburg to Cincinnati over the old Mari
eta and Cincinnati line, now greatly i'm
proved in every way, and known to the
world as the Cincinnati, Washington and
Baltimore Railroad. 1t is a model road IL
all its details, an managed right up to the
mark. From Cincinnati to st. Louis the B
d u. trains pass over tho noted Western
short line, the Ohio and Mississippi With
a track as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar and
motive power celebrated throughout rail.
way circles for its remarkable efficiency, the
r o. " NJ has set the pegs very high for rival
lines in the way of fast time. The beauty
OF 1t is that the road is SO smooth and the
line so level that the passenger fairly flies
without recognizing he is going at hardly
| ANYTHING more than rather lively jog.
With its direct; interchanging lines such
patterns OF railway management it is nc
puzzle to account for the superiority of the
e b. d .. over all other through routes be.
+ tween New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
p and Washington and Cincinnati and st
Louis While occupying an incomparabl,
position as regards the cities named, the B
& o. enjoys equal distinction as a Chicago
line, 1t owning, controlling and operating
every foot of the route from the Atlantic t9
? Michigan and Lake Erie. 1t is the oni,
! line running its trains through from New
York to Chicago and Chicago to NeN
York with absolutely no change o
cars whatever, aud it was the B. q O. that
originated the term "soid" trains and inau.
gurated the system. How successful it has
proved is indicated by the imitators. "Thc
Chicago Solid" as this train has become
known, has recently had added a superb
dining car, which in roomy appointments
, and novelties in the way Of tables, seats etc .
is unquestionably the "swell'' dinner OF the
period. Like the hew and magnificent
sleepers, the dining nails on the line
and everything else pertaining to
the road, the one company ownt
e and manages its own dining car line
, consequently there are no outside corpora
tions to live upon passengers, and the latter
deal ID every single instance with the B. &
y The oldest passenger railway in tn,
world, the B. q o. can show a record fol
a speed, for safety, for prompt employment
e OF every new feature, and for satisfying tn,
| public wholly unparalleled. In the Ian.
gnage of an enthusiastic Western admirer
1T is the boss road, and don't you forget