The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-11-20
Has It's Saw.
AND STRAIGHT TO THE POINT II Is. no
EXAcTIoNs, NO EXTRA CHARGE, AND
THE FASTEST TINE EVER MADE.
''LIsIITEDs'' by NO MEANS
EXCEPTED.

ENCEPJED.
The Baltimore and Ohio is still Gil deck
and more saucy than ever when 1t comes
to talking ont i'll meeting for the interests
OF the travelling public, as against the eX-
actions OF some other and would-be rival
lines. Its latest shot into the camp of the
high-priced and fancy-fixings lines is hot
one, and already there is squirming and
twisting to get away from the inevitable.
But there is no use of kicking against the
proddlng, and the average man nowadays
knows thing or two which all the cun-
ningly constructed advertisements of those
who want the whole earth. and then not
get enough, cannot blind him to the actual
state OF affairs. 70 pay eight or ten dol
lars extra for the simple riding on q road
that assumes all there is in this life worth
having is all bosh, and no longer will the
dividends OF railroad companys and sub
Sldiary corporations alike swell at the. ex-
penSe OF an 0ver-confiding public. The B.
and q. has itself gone into the Limited
express train business, and, as is ever the
rule with everything done by the solid old
corporation. the people profit, and would
be rival lines vince. On all the Limited
trains of other routes sum is exacted
largely in excess of the regular ticket rate,
and the passenger, whether it be his choice
or not, has to pay another extra in the
shape OF sleeping-car fare. If he declines
TO accept the conditions so arbitrarily ex-
acted, he has perforce to 60 on slow
train, as, according to the latest principles
OF. the antocratic companies, fast time is
only for the wealthy. On the b. and o.
the best is ever deemed the honest due of
all, and the great American maxim that
every man is his own master to follow his
own sweet will has ever been the all-gov-
erning rule Of its half century and more of
existence. In other words, there are
no extra charges of any character
whatsoever on the B. and o., and, fig
uratlvely speaking, if q man don't want
hash, he don't have to take it. If he de-
sires sleeper, a parlor car, there it is, and
the rate for accommodations is only the
regular standard figure, not doubled up, as
| on other lines, in the interest of an already
Mlrpowerful and rich sleeping-car combina-
ton.
The day coaches on Is. s. O. Limited are
brand new. just out of the shop, and per-
fectly appointed, combining all the latest
improvements. They, as all other cars on
the train, run through without change,
and all in the same unparalleled time
Note the schedule. Chicago Limited
leaves that city at $40 p. m, arriving in
Washington the next evening ut 7:30, and
Baltimore an hour later This certainlvis
flying, twenty-five hour run to the Ma
tional Capital being all any one could ask.
And It is not done at a dangerous rate of
speed or in an anyway reckless manner.
On the b. IL o. they take no risks of this
sort, but when shortening up the time
merely take out all the minor stops. and
by long, steady runs cover a vast extent of
territory in q very short space of time.
Two other trains beside the Chicago Linn
itedN leave the Garden City, one at $40 in
the morning and the other at lilo at
night. From st. Louis the Limited leaves
at a. M, and from Cincinnati at 7.30 p.
M, reaching Washington next afternoon
at $50 and Baltimore at $3.50. There are
other trains also from st. Louis and Gin
cinnatl. and east bound the B. & o. Ellis
the bill of popular expectation to T. !
West bound it comes in again with a
schedule liable to make the officials of other
lines take to their beds with winters
sick headache. The Limited for Chicago
leaves Baltimore at s a. H., Washington
at 8 a. M, and reaches Chicago at 9:20 the
following morning, making half-honr's
faster time than the much Wanted Lin
tied" OF q rival line, and on which the ex-
cess charge is no less than SIS from Wash
ington more than on the B. & o. The B.
& o. Limited for Cincinnati and st. Louis
is another corker, leaving Baltimore at
noon, Washington at LOS p. M, and arriv-
ing at Cincinnati at 40 a. M. four hours
ahead, and at st. Louis at $50 p. M, four
and a half hours ahead, Of the so-called
Limited" Express to these cities on the
other route. The Pittsburg Limited
on the B. 81 0. is an hour aud half faster
from Washington to that city than any
other w0uld-be Limited, and so through
outthe whole of the B. 4 o.. matchless
Deay schedule, it ranks far above any ever
COTTON out by other lines, no matter what
their boasts or assumption to combine in
themselves al the virtue. excellence and
enterprise this whole country affords.
During the past summer great amount
of work has been done all along the lines
of the Baltimore and Ohio. The track
has been Strengthened, immense quantities
of new and heavy steel rail put down. and
to-day the ride over Picturesque B. IL o.,
with all its wondrous beauties of nature,
its unsurpassed equipment, luxurious cars,
its very models of railway dining halls and
dining cars, and it's proverbially polite and
attentive train men, is journey the equal
of which, for all that goes to please and
satisfy. cannot be made on any other line
on the continent.