The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-13
Letter from Kentucky.
Correspondence of the Democratic Advocate.
NEWPORT. KY. January 9th. 1888.

Correspondence of the Democratic Advocate
NEWPORT, KY, January 9th, 1883.
MEssRs. VANDERFoRD Bros The arrival
of the ADVOCATE is a regular weekly event
that is looked to with pleasure for the news it
brings, for its cheerful face, the evidences of
its success and of the general prosperity of our
native state. We regard the ADVOCATE as a
representative state journal, and, as such, are
proud of it THAT word suits me in this connec-
tom. 1t is gratifying to the state pride of an
old Marylander to see the evidences of the en-
ergy and enterprise of his fellow citizens. 1t
is true we have not enjoyed the honor of hav-
! ing a President of the United States yet
within her limited borders, but Maryland has
always had, since the confederation of states,
talent, wisdom and political acumen enough,
in more heads than one, to creditably execute
the functions of that office, at least as well as
it has been done by the party in power for the
last twenty years.
We are located, for the present. in the
suburbs of the great central city of this coun-
| try, Cincinnati. Central as to the population
of the whole country, and the ways and means
! of transportation by the great modern arteries
of commerce, railroads.
What is now regarded as one of the greatest
thoroughfares of this country, remember as
! a horse railway, running carriages from Bal
timore to Ellicott's Mills, making the Fl rst
relay out of Baltimore at what is now the
beautiful and picturesque station, Relay, at the
junction of the Washington Branch with the
main stem of the B. and 0. Since that time,
truly we may say the magician wand has
been extended over the intervening space be-
| tween Baltimore and Cincinnati. Rivers are
spanned, ravines filled, hills leveled, noun
tains tunnelled, crooked places made straight,
time and space reduced to the smallest de-
gree, when compared with what they were
IS years ago.
A trip from here to my old home in Mary
land used to take two to three days, the whole
distance, excepting Is miles, by rail- Now
| can leave Cincinnati between the hours of 8
and at night, and in Is hours be in Balti-
more, and, if have business in your sanctum,
could be there and transact it before clock
the next evening, and then be ready for sup
per and enjoy other inequalities of Westmn-
ster, having already squinted at the towns and
cities on the route in five states, and Washing
ton, d. c., all within "a hours. In fact, a
Kentucky, sup in Cincinnati, breakfast in
! Cumberland, dine in Baltimore and finish up
with supper in Westminster, all in consecutive
order. Besides the rapid transit of passen-
gers this thoroughfare, with its leased lines,
branches and extensions, traversing the vast
territory west of the Alleghenies to the great
lakes, down the Ohio and into the Valley of
the Mississippi, drives back into Baltimore its
multitude Of burden trains, laden with the
wealth and products from sources almost in
exhaustible. The people, in passing along
4th Street, Cincinnati, when they read the
signs-B. & 0. ticket Office, express office,
telegraph office, &c, fully realize in this day
the extent of the facilities offered by the b. Il
o. Company. Knowing what | have seen, |
sometimes look around here expecting to see
B. & O. tobacco warehouses, grain elevators,
and, possibly, some day, hotels. What the
Pennsylvania Railroad system is to Philadel-
phia and Pennsylvania, with her great arms
and arteries drawing into Philadelphia, as the
heart, her golden fluid, the Baltimore & Ohio
and her system is to Baltimore and the state
of Maryland.
We Marylanders. away from home, look
with pride upon the wonders accomplished by
the management of this road; we are willing
to accord all honor to the wisdom of the minds
that conceived it; to the skill and wealth and
brains that executed and established it, and
to the enlightened press, aiding in the work,
yet as faithful sentinels, guarding the rights
of all.
must beg pardon; INTENDED to write about
Cincinnati, but will now defer it till you hear
again from GOLD KAINTUCK."