Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-05-24
OVER THE CREST
OF Mountain. down BY Coast Waters,
and otherwise Relieving the Tedl.
nm Of summer Travel by the
Coolest Line OF Railway on
the Contlnent-Pictur-

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. & o.
with its new schedule, its faster time and
general batch Of good things, from its
regular summer budget. 1t is fit and
apropos that SO rare line OF beauty as
the B. & o. should announce its summer
programme when nature is attired in its
lovliest garb Of all the year. Ordinarily
railroads are humdrum subjects, good
enough and certainly indispensable in
their way, but hardly a topic to base a
poetic idyl upon, particularly when un-
der the exquisite influences of dreamy
day in May. Nevertheless there is much
in the B. & o. not incongruous with the
royal splendor of early summer time,
when with the bloom upon the rose, the
apple blossoms and the peach, the emer-
aid 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 glittering bands of steel, the
foam-cIested waters spanned by bright
cleaning ribbons Of the metal and the
fields where the daisies grow, the hill.
sides from which tho blossoms send
heavenward their fragrance and the vel.
vety carpet of the valley,-all as truly
betoken the presence of that agency
without which SO glorious a panorama
would still, as 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
constructed as it was, through the very
garden of the continent-watered by the
Potomac, the Shenandoah and the Youg-
hiogheny, onward and upward, until the
crests OF the Blue Ridge and the noble
old Alleganles almost kiss the clouds,
then plunging down through canyon,
Ger chasm 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 journey would have
been lost to all men! Who, then, can
say that thoughts of the rare and un.
equaled beauties lining every foot of the
B. & D, way, from the Ohio to the sea,
are not IN keeping with the spell thrown
over US by the witchery of the season?
No railroad in the world compares with
it for picturesque loveliness and noun.
tain grandeur; and the points relative 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 mat
ter of personal qualification 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
a corresponding activity to all Eastern
cities; or, in other words, this matchless
train making the fastest long run known
for years, leaves st. Louis in the morn
ing, Cincinnati in the evening, and
reaches Washington next day for dinner,
a whole meal ahead of all other trains
the other not putting in an appearance
until supper time. To Baltimore the
time saved is over fonr hours, and Phila-
delphia and New York are reached IN
time for supper. The corresponding
train from the East to the West should
also have an appropriate name. and if the
one is a Daisy the other isa Darling, sure
enough. Leaving New York at seven in
the evening, and passing through Phila.
delphia, 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 get.
ting 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 morn
ing, in an abundance of time to make all
the connections for the West and South.
and which connections are made in
Union Depot, wherein all the through
trains of the B. & o. run. They pass
from Parkersburg to Cincinnati over the
Marietta and Cincinnati line, now great
ly improved in every way, and known to |
the world as the Cincinnati, Washington
and Baltimore Railroad. 1t is a model |
road in all its details, and managed right
up to the mark. From Cincinnati to st. |
l ouis the B. & o. trains pass over the |
noted Western short line, the Ohio and |
Mississippi. With track as solid as the
Rock Of Gibraltar and a motive power
celebrated throughout railway circles
for its remarkable efficiency, the o. & M.
has set the pets very high for rival lines
IN the way OF fast time. The beauty of
it is that the road is so smooth aud the
bed so level that the passenger fairly flies
without recognizing he is going t hardly
anything more than a rather lively log.
With its direct interchanging lines.
such patterns of railway management is
no puzzle to account for the superiority
Of the B. & o. over all other through
routes between New York, PHILADELPHIA.
Baltimore and Washir gton and Cincin.
natl and st. Louis. While occupying an
Incompatible position as regards the
cities named, the B. & o. enjoys equal
distinction as Chicago line, it owning,
and operating 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 was the B. & o. that
the term '.solid" trains and
naugurated the system. How success
Ful it has proved is indicated by the imi-
tators. The Chicago Solid" as this
rain has become known, has recently
had added a s1perb new dining car,
which in roomy appointments and nov
elites in the way of tables, seats, etc., is
the 'swell" dinner of
the period. Like the new and magnifi.
cent sleepers, the dining halls on the line
and everything else pertaining to the
road, the one company owns and mana
ges its own dining-car line; consequently
there are no outside corporation 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 a record for
speed, for safety, for prompt employ.
ment Of every new feature, and for sat
styling the public wholly unparalleled.
In the language of an enthusiastic West.