Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-24
OVER THE CREST
of Mountain, down by Cool waters
and Otherwise Relieving the Te'
dunn of summer Travel by the
Coolest Line of Railway ON the
Coutiucut-Pictur II. * o.

Coolest Line of Railway on the
Coutiucnt-PiSture Il. * o.
With the approach of the genial glow of sum
mer. the expanding blossoms of May time fora,
the gentle hrsezss, laden with the delicate fra
GRANGE of budding sweets and the delicious Ian
guor Of balmy atmosphere, comes Picturesque
| b. < o. with its new schedule, its faster time
and general batch Of good things, from its reg
ular summer budget. 1t is lit and apprOpOs
that so rare line of beauty a. the b. Or
should announce its summer programme when
nature is sttired in its lovliest garb Of all the
year. Ordinarily railroads are humdrum sub
iects good enough and certainly Indispensable
in their way, but hardly topic to base poetic
idyl upon, particularly when under the exquisite
| influences Of dreamy day in May. Neverthe-
| less there is much in the B. & o. not incon-
gruou, with fhe royal splendor Of early summer
| time, when the bloom upon the rose, the apple
blossoms and the peach, the emerald swsrd and
the daisv all vie the one with the other in form
ing parts of a matchless picture, painted by the
master-hand of nature. The mountains girded
by the glittering 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 bios
SONS send heaVonward their fragrance and the
velvety carpet of the valley,-all as truly be-
token 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 and Ohio been con-
structed as it was, through the very garden OF
the continent-ratered by the Potomac, the
Shenandoah and the Youghis sheny, onward and
upward, until the crest OF the Blue Ridge and
the noble old Alie.anies almost kiss the clouds,
| then plunge down through canon, DER cha.m
and beneath towering 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 lost to all men! Who, then,
can say that thoughts of the rare and unequaled
beauties lining every foot of the B. 4 0. way,
| from the Ohio to the sea, are not in keeping
with the spell thrown over us by the vitchery OF
the season? No railroad in the world compares
with it for pictureque lovliness and mountain
grandeur; and the points relative to change OF
time on the B. l. o., to new trains and TO the
| old, have an interest not dreamed of in con-
nection with other roads. Thus it becomes to
many matter of personal qualification that
the old fsvorite Daisy train still shows her
dainty heels to would-be rivals to the troubling
| time of seven hours to Washington, and cor
responding activity to all Eastern cities; or, in
other words, this matchless train makiug the
fastest long run known for years, leaves ST
Louis in the morning, Cincinnati in the eve-
ming, and reaches Washington next day for
dinner, . whole meal ahead of all other trains
the others not putting in an appearance until
supper-time. Ts Baltimore the time saved
is over four hours, and Philadelphia and New
York are reached in time for supper, The cor
responding train from the East to the West
should also have an appropriate name, and il
| the one is a Daisy the other is Darling, sure
enough. Leaving New York at seven in the
evening, and passing through Philadelphia
Baltimore and Washington en- route, Cincinnati
is reached early the next evening in ample
time for the connection 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 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 connection
for the West and South, and which connections
are made in Union Depot, wherein all the
through trains of the B. i o. run. They pass
from Parkersburg to Cincinnati over the old
Marietta and Cincinnati line, now greatly i'm
proved in every way, and known to the world as
Railroad. 1t is a model road in all its details,
tand managed right up to the mark. From
Cincinnati to St. Louis the B. & o. trains pass
over the noted Western shore line, the Ohio
and Mississippi. With a track as solid as the
Rock of Gibralter and a motive power selebrat-
ed throughout railway circles for its remarka-
BILE efficiency, the o. 4 NJ. has set the pegs very
high for rival lines in the way of fast time. The
beauty of it is that the road is so smooth and
the line so level that the passenger fairly flies
without recognizing he is going at hardly any
thing more than rather lively jog.
With its -derict interchanging lines, such
patterns of railway management is no puzzle to
account for the superiority of the B. l. o. over
| all other through routes between New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, and
Cincinnati and st. Louis. While occupying an
incompatible position as regards the cities
named, the B. q o. enjoys equal distinction as
a Chicago line, it owning, controlling and oper-
ating every foot of the route from the Atlantic
to Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. 1t is the
only line running its trains through from New
York to Chicago and Chicago TO New York
with absolutely no change Of cars whatever,
and it was the B. & o. that originated the term
"solid" trains and inaugurated the system.
How successful it has proved is indicated by
the imitators. 1.-The Chicago Solid" as this
train has become knswn, has recently had ad-
ded superb new dining car, which in roomy
appointments and novelties in the way of tables,
seats, ETC., is unquestionably the "swell'' din
| ner of the period. Like the new and magnif-
cent sleepers, the dining halls on the line and
everything else pertaining to the road, the one
company owns and manages its own dining-car
line; consequently there are no outside eorpor-
ations to live upon passengers, and the latter
deal in every single instance with the B. & O.
The oldest passenger railway in the world, the
B. & o. can show record for speed, for safety,
for prompt employment of every new feature,
and for satisfying the public wholly unparallel-
ed. In the language of an enthusiastic West
ern admirer, at is the boss road, and don't you
forget it."