Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1883-05-29

ONHtHs6E 4EUCcs W tttc OOOtSSt LING
of RaT.cay on tie Co,stiaeat-Pie-
tsresque B. &c 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
Iieious languor of balmy atmosphere,
comes Picturesque B. & o. with its
new schedule, its faster time and gen
eral batch of good things, from its
regular summer budget 1t is at and
apropos that so rare q line of beauty
as the B. & o. should announce its
summer programme when nature is
alfred in its IOvIiest garb of all the
wear. Ordinarily railroads are hum
drum subjects, good enough and GER
tainly indispensable in their way, but
hardly topic to base a poetic idyl
upon, particularly when under the ex-
quisite influences of dreamy day in
May Nevertheless there is much in
the B 6 o. not incongruous with the
ROYAL spiendor 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 matchless picture, painted
by the master-hand of nature. The
mountains girted by the glittering
bands of steel. the foam-crested wa
tiers SPAWNED by bright cleaning rib
hons of the metal and the fields where
the daisies grow. the hilI-sides from
which the blossoms send heayenward
their fragrance and the veIvety carpet
of the yalIey,-aH as truly betoken
the presence of that agency without
which so glorious a panorama would
still. as of yere, be confined to the
selfish glare of the sun by day and to
the aGtocratic 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 Shen-
andoah and the Youghiogheny, on
ward and upward, Until the crests of
the Blue Ridge and the noble old Al
leganies almost kiss the clouds, then
piunging down through canon, DER
ehasm and beneath towering masses,
to the broad, open shores of the Ohio
had not the hand of the 3. & O.
man done all this, what a Journey
would have been lost to all meni-
Who. then. can say that thoughts of
the rare and unequaled beauties lin
ing every loot of the B. & o. 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
Tor picturesque loEeliness and noun
tain grandeur. and the points relative
70 change of time on the B. & o.. to
new trains and to the old, have an in
terest not dreamed of in connection
with other roads. Thus 1t becomes
to many Z matter OF personal graf
IfestfGn that the old -favo.ite Daisy
train still shows her dainty heels to
would-be rivals to the troubling time
OF seven hours to Washington. and q
corresponding activity TO all Eastern
eItIes5 or, n other words, this match
less train making tie fastest long run
known for years, leaves St Louis in
the morning, Cincinnati in the eve
ming and reaches Washington next
day fo- dinner, whole meal ahead of
slt other trains-she others not put
ting N an appearance until supper
time To Baltimore the time saved
Is over four hours, and Philadelphia
and New York are reached IL time for
supper The corresponding train from
the East to the West should aIso have
an appropriate name, and if the one
IS a Daisy the other Is 4 Darling. sure
enough Leaving New York st seven
IN the evening" and passing through
Philadelphia Baltimore and Washing
ton en- ros:te, Cincinnati Is reached
early the next evening in ample time
1or the connection South and South
west On the old schedule the time
WIS some two hours longer, and that
much later getting into CINCINNATI
y similar change IN the order of things
is gained ct ST. Louis, as the train.
with its through sleeper from New
York, reaches the Future Great
early the second morning in al album
dance OF time to make all the connec-
tons 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
PlTkersbu=g to Cincinnati over the
old Marietta and Cincinnati line, now
greatly improved in every way. and
known to the world as the Cincinnati.
Washington and Baltimore Railroad.
Ii IS I model road in all its details.
and managed right up to the mark
From Cincinnati to St. Louis the B.
& O. trains pass over the noted West
ern short line, the Ohio and AIissfs-
sippi- With g track as solid IS the
Rock Of Gibraltar and motive power
celebrated throughout railway circles
for its remarkable efficiency. the @.
< II 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 recog-
nizing he is going at hardly anything
more than rather lively jog
With its direct intercha1gfnr lines.