Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-11-15

ExACTIONs, NO Elk IRA CHARGE, AND THE
FASTEST TIME EVER MADE. ssLINTTEDs"
BIZ MEANS EXCEPTED
The Baltimore and Ohio is still on
deck ard more saucy than ever when
it comes to talking out in meeting for
the interests of the travelling public,
as against the exactions of some other
and would be rival lines It's latest
shot into the camp of the high-priced
and fancy-fixings lines is hot one,
and already there is sqnirming and
twisting to get away from the newt
able. But there is no use of kicking
against the prodd,ng, and the aver
age man nowadays knows thing
or two which all the cunningly con-
structed advertisement of those who
want the whole earth, and then not
get enough, cannot blind him to the
actual state of affairs. To pay eight
or ten dollars extra for the simple
riding on a road that assumes all
there is in this life worth having is
all bosh, and no longer will the divi-
dends of railroad company and sub
sidary corporations alike swell at the
expense of an over confding public.
The B and O. has itself gone into
the s'limitedn express train business,
and, as is ever the rule with every
thing done by the solid old corpora
ton, the people profit, and would be
rivallin vince On all the s.limited''
trains of other routes sum is exact
ed largely in excess of the regular
ticket rate, and the passenger, wheth
er it be his choice or not, has to pay
another extra in the shape of sleep
ing car fare. If be declines to accept
the conditions so arbitrarily exacted,
he has perforce to go on slow train,
as, according to the latest principles
of these antncratic companies. fast
time is only for the wealthy. On the
B and @. 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. &c O.,
and figuratively speaking, if a man
don't want hash. he don't have to
take it. If he desires a sleeper,
parlor car, there it is, aud the rate
for Accommodations is only the regular
standard figure, not doubled up, as
on other lines, in the interest of an
already all powerful and rich sleep
ing combination.
The day coaches on the B s. 0.
Limited are brand new, just out Of
the shop, and perfectly appointed,
combining all the latest improve
ments. They, as all other cars on
the train. run through without
change, and all in the same unpar
alleled time. Note the sch dule.
Chicago Limited leaves that city at
$40 p. M, arriving in Washington
the next evening at 7.30. and Balti-
more an hour later. This certainly
is flying, twenty-five hour run to
the National 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
g. o. they take no risks of this sort,
but when shortening up the time
merely take out all the minor stops,
aud by long, steady runs cover a vast
extent of territory of in
very short space of time. Two other
trains beside the Chicago Limited
leave the Garden City, one at 8 10 in
the morning and the other at lilo
at night. From st. Louis the Linn
tied leaves at a. M, and from Gin
cinnati at 7.30 p. m reaching Wash
ington next afternoon at $50 and
Baltimore at 1856 There are other
trains also from st. Louis and Gin
cinnati, ard East bound the B. & O.,
fills the billo popular expectation to
AT.
West bound it comes in again with
schedule liable to make the officials
of other lines take to their beds with
a winters sick headache. The Linn
tied for Chicago leaves Baltimore at
A NJ, and reaches Chicago at 8 20
the following morning, making
half-hour,s faster time than the vann-
ted ''Limitedn of a rival line, and on
which the excess charge is no less
than IS from washington more than
on the B. & 0 Limited for Cincin-
natl and st. Louis is an another
corker, leaving Baltimore at noon,
Washington at Los p NJ, four and