The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-05-24
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property n Lne country auJOlnt0g. One
was killed by the falling OF a farm house
OVER THE CREST
OF Mountain. Down by Cool Waters,
and Otherwise Believing the TedIum
OF Summer Travel by the Coolest
Line Of Railway ON the CONT
nent-PictIrssQue B. 3 o.
With the approach of the genial glow
of summer, the expanding blossoms of
May time fora, the gentle breezes, laden
with the delicate fragrance of budding
sweets and the delicious languor OF
balmy atmosphere, comes Picturesque
B. s. o., with its new schedule, its fast
er time and general batch of good
things, from its regular summer budget.
II Is fit and apropos that so rare line
of beauty as the B. 8 o. should announce
its summer program when nature is at
tired in its lovellest garb or all the year.
Ordinarily railroads are humdrum
subjects, good enough and certainly
Indispensable in their way, but hardly
topic to base q poetic idyl upon,
particularly when under the ex-
quislte influences of dreamy day in
May. Nevertheless there is much in the
b. q 0. not incongruOus with the royal
spleudOE 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 a matchless
picture, painted by the master hand of
| nature. The mountains girded by the
giittering bands of steel, the foam crest
ed 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 car
pet OF the valley-all as truly beiOken
the presence of that agency without
! which so glorious panorama would
still, as of yOre, be confined to the sell
| fish glare of the sun by day and to the
| autDcratic cold stare of the stars by
night.
Had not the Baltimore and Ohio been
constructed as it was, through the yer y
garden of the continent-Watered by the
Potomac, the Shenandoah and the
Youghiogheny, onward and upward,
| until the crests of the Blue Ridge and
the noble old AlleghanIes almost kiss the
clouds, then plungiDg down through
caRon. DER chasm and beneath tower
ing masses, TO the broad. open shores of
the Ohio-had not the hand of the B. &
o. man done all this, what a journey
would have been best to all meni Who,
then Can say that thoughts of the rare
| and unequaled beauties lining every
loot of the B. s. o. way, from the Ohio
to the sea, are not in keeping with the
spell thrown over US by the WITCH
cry of the season? No railroad
in the world compares with 1t for pic
turesque loneliness and mountain
grandeur; and the points relative to
change of time on the 3. & o., to new
tains and to the old, have an interest not
dreamed of in connection with other
roads. Thus it becomes to many mat
ter of personal qualification that the
old favorlte Daisy train still shows heI
dainty heels to the Would-be rivals to
the troubling time of seven hours tc
Washington, and a corresponding &C
! tivity to all eastern cities; or, in Othel
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
; uext day for dinner, a whole mea
ahead OF all other trains-the others moi
Pullman an appearance until supper
time. To Baltimore the time saved il
over four hours, and Philadelphia and
: New York are reached in time for sup
: per. The corresponding train from tht
: east to the west should also have an ap
r proprlate name, and if the one is dais,
the other is a darling, sure enough
Leaving New York at seven in the even
ing, and passing through Philadelphia
Baltimore and Washington en- route
Cincinnati is reached early the mex
u evening in ample time for the connec
: ton south and southwest. On the oil
>. schedule the time was some two hour
longer, and that much later getting int
!, Cincinnati. A similar change il
the order of things is gained a
: ST. Louis, as the train, with It's throug
sleeper from New York, reaches tn,
= Future Great" early the second morn
! ing, in an abundance of time to max
!. south, and which connections are mad
= in Union Depot, wherein all the throug
= trains of the B. s. .. run. They pas
I from Psrkersburg to Cincinnati over tn
:; old Marietta and Cincinnati line, no'
!. greatly improved in every way, an
, known to the world as the Cinciu
T natl, Washington s. Baltimore raj
= ), road. It is q model road in a
y Its details, and managed right up to tn
q mark. From Cincinnati to st. Louis th
. B. & o. trains pass over the noted ives
y ern short line, the Ohio and Mississippi
With track as solid as the rock of Gil
le raltar and a motive power celebrate
throughout railway circles for its II
:. markable efficiency, the o. & NJ. has sc
= the pegs very high for rival lines in u
u way Of fast time. The beauty of it
y that the road is so smooth and the liz
y so level that the passenger fairly tlit
without recognizing he is going AT hare
= ly anything more than q rather livel
IA jog.
| h. 0fs ot1
~ no puzzle 20 account tor the superior
" GRITTY Of the B. s. o. over all otht
y through routes between New Yorl
10 Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing
as ton and Cincinnati and st. Louii
- While occupying an Incompatible pt
y sition as regards the cities named, tn
IL B. & o. enjoys equal distinction as
VI Chicago line, it owning, controlling an
oI operating every foot of the route froI
q; the Atlantic to Lake Michigan an
l, Lake Erie. 1t is the odly line runnin
=, = its trains through fFoI
q q Chicago to New York with absolutel
- no change of cara whatever, and it WI
'solid" trains and inaugurated the sy
= tenn. How successful it has proved is il
10 dictated by the imitators. "The Chicag
'n Solid" as this train has become know
ie has recently had added a superb ne
Is dining car, which IN roomY appoin
e ments and novelties in the way of table
AZ seats, ETC., is unQuestionabl
o the ''swelI' dinner of the perio,
T Like the new and magnificent sleeper
Q the dining halls on the line al
Is everything else pertaining to the rOa,
y the one company owns and manages il
te own dining car line; consequently theI
n are no outside corporations TO live upo
I passengers, and the latter deal in ever
y single Instance with the B. s. o. Tt
le Oldest passenger railway IN the worlt
n- the B. s. o. can show q record f
,r speed, for safety, for prompt employ
s. ment of every new feature, and for sat
y flying the public wholly unparelled.
the language of N enthusiastic wester
= admirer. at is the boss road, and don
~ you forget Iti''