The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-19
OVER THE CREST


Summer IrdveJ by the Coolest Lime
of RditrOdd on the Continental Pic
tu'esQue b. q: O.
With the approach of the genial
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 de-
licions languor of balmy atmosphere,
comes Picturesque B. & O. with it's
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. & 0. should announce its
summer programme when nature is
attlred in its lovliest garb of all the
year. Ordinarily railroads are hum
drum subjects, good enough and GER
tainly Indispensable in their way, but
hardlya 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. q 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 glitter
ing 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 heaven.
ward their fragrance and the velvety
carpet of the Yalley,-all as truly be-
token the presence of that agency
without which so glorious a panora-
ma would still, as Of yOre, be confin-
ed 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 Shean-
andOah and the Youghiogheny, on
ward and upward, until the crests of
the Blue Ridge and the noble old
Alleganies almost kiss the cloud, then
plunging down through canon, DER
chasm and beneath towering masses,
to the broad, open shores Of the Ohio
had not hand of the 3. & O. 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. & o. way, from
the Ohio to the sea. are not in keep
ing with the spell thrown over US by
the Witchery of the season? No rail-
road in the WORLD compares with it
for picturesque loYeliness and noun
tain grandeur and the points rela-
tive 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 becomes
to many a matter of personal gratii-
cation 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
corresponding activity to all Eastern
cities or, in other words, this match
less train making the fastest long run
known for years, leaves st. Louis in
ing, and reaches Washington next
day for dinner, whole meal ahead
of all other trains-the others not
putting in an appearance until sup.
per-time, To Baltimore the time
saved is over four hours, and Phila-
delphia and New York are reached
in time for supper. The correspond
ing train from the East to the West
should also havean appropriate name,
and if the one is Daisy the other is
Darling, sure enough. Leaving
New York at seYen in the evening,
and passing through Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington en- route,
Cincinnati 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 similar
change in the order Of things is gain
ed 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 con-
nections are made in Union Depot,
wherein all the through trains Of the
B. d O. run. They pass from Park
ershurg to Cincinnati oyer the old
Marietta and Cincinnati line, now