Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1883-05-18

With the approach of the genial glow of
summer, the expanding blossoms OF May
time flora, the gentle breezes, laden with
the delicate fragrance of budding sweets
and the delicious languor Of balmy atmos-
phere, comes Picturesque b. d o. with its
new schedule, its faster time and general
batch of good things, from its regular sum
mer budget 1t is fit and apropos that 50
rare line OF beauty as the Ii. Il o. should
announce its summer programme when
nature is attired in its ovllest garb of all
the year. Ordinarily railroads are hum
drum subjects, good enough and certainly
Indispensable in their way, but hardly a
topic 10 base poetic idyl upon, particularly
when under the exquisite influences OF n
dreamy dayip May. Nevertheless there is
much in the b. d o. not homogeneous with
the royal splendor 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 masterhand Of nature. The
mountains girded by the gittering bands
OF steel, the foam crested waters spanned
by bright cleaning ribbons Of the metal and
the fields where daisies grow, the hill sides
from which the blossoms send heavenward
their fragrance and the yelvety carpet Ol
the valley,--ill As truly betoken the pres.
encc of that agency without which so glori.
Gus 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.
1 No railroad in the world compares with
| 1t for picturesque loyeliness and mountain
| GRANDEUR and the points relative 70 change
2 Al. 4. nd a.,
/ the old have an interest not dreamed of in
connection with other roads Leaving New
/ York at seven in the evening, and passing
through Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ingtOn 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 getting into Cincinnati
A similar change in the order Of things IL
gained at 81. Louis, as the train, with III
through sleeper from New York, reaches
the Future Great early the second morn
ing, in an abundance Of time 70 make al
the connections for the West and South, and
which connections are made in Union Depot
wherein all the through trains Of the Il. &
o. run. They pass from Parkersburg u
/ Cincinnati over the old Marietta and Gin
cnnati line, now greatly improved in every
way, and known TO the world as the Gin
cinnati, Washington and Baltimore Rail
road Il is a model road in all its details
and managed right up to the mark. From
Cincinnati ~ Sc Louis the Il. 6 o. train
pass over the noted Western short line, thu
ohio and Mississippi. With a track a
solid as the Rock Of Gibraltar and motivt
power celebrated throughout railway cir
Giles for its remarkable efficiency, the o.
M. has set the pegs very high for rival line
in the way of last time. The beauty Of Il
that the road Is 50 smooth and the line *
level that The passenger fairly flies withou
recognizing he IS going at hardly a1ythinl
more than rather lively Jog.
With its direct interchanging lines, sue