Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-05-19
OVER THEE CREST.

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 Is. ~ Q.
with its new schedule, its faster time and
general bach OF good things, from its
REGULAR summer budget. 1t is lit and
spropos that so rare line of beauty rs
the &. & o. should announce its srmmer
programme when nature is attlred III ITS
iov"liest garb of all the year. Ordinarily
railroads are humdrum subjects, good
enough and certainly diSpensable in their
way, but hardly topic TO base poetic
idyl upon, particularly when under the
exquisite influences of Il dreamy day IN
MAY. Nevertheless there is much III the
i. 81 o. not incongruouS with the royal
splcndor of early Summer time, when the
bloom upon the rose, the apple blossoms
and the peach, the emerald swarj and the
daisy all vie the one with .he other III
forming parts OF matchleSs picture
PAINTED by the master-haud of nature.
Had not the Baltimore and Ohio been
constructed as it was, through the very
yarden of the continent-WatereG by the
Potomac, the Shenandoah and the YOugh-
hiogheny, onward and upward, until the
crests of the Blue Ridge and the noble old
Allcpanies 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. a. .. man done all this,
what Il journey would have been lost to
all men, Who, then, can say thoughts OF
the rare and unequaled beauties lining
every foot of the Il. 81 o. way, from the
Ohio to the sea, are not in keeping with
the spell thrown over us by the wltchery
of the season? No railroad in the world
compares with it for picturesque LONELINESS
and mountain grandeur; and the points
relative TO change of time on the Is. Il o.,
to new trains and to the old, have an in
tcrest not dreamed of in connection with
other roads.
With its direct interchanging lines,
such patterns of railway management Is
40 puZZle to account for the superiority OF
the b. 81 o. over all other through routes
between New York, Philadelphia, Baiti-
more and Washington and Cincinnati ana
81. Louis. 1t is the only line running lis
trains through from New York to Chicago
and Chicago 10 New York with absolutely
no change of cars whatever, and 1t was
the b. a o. that originated the term
"solid" trains and inaugurated the system.
How successful il has proved is indicated
by the imitatOrs. "The Chicago solid,
AS this train has become known, has re-
Gently had added superb new dining
car, which in roomy appointments and
novelties in the way of tables, seats, etc.,
is Enthusiastically the ''SwelP' dinner of
the period Like the new and magniti-
cent sleepers, the dining halls on the line
and everything else pertaining to the
road, the one company owns and manages
it's own dining-car line; consequently
ihere are no outsids corporations to live
upon passengers, and the latter deal in
every single instance with the b. u o.
The oldest passenger railway in the world,
the B. q o. can show record for speed,
for safety, for prompt employment of
every new feature, and for satisfying the
public wholly unparalleled. In the lam
1uage of an enthusiastic Western admirer,
.'It is the boss road, and don't you forget
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