Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-03
HAS ITS SAY.
And Straight to the Point 1t Is. No Ex'
actions, No Extra Charge, and the
Fastest Time Ever Made. "Lim-
iteds'' by Means Excepted.

The Baltimore and Ohio IS still on deck
and more saucy than ever when it comes
to talking out in 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-fxings lines is
hot one, and already there is squirming
and twisting to get away from the in
eyitable. But there is no use OF kicking
against the prodding, and the average
men now "a days knows thing or two
which all the cunningly constructed adj
vertisements 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 dividends of
railroad company and subsidiary corpor-
atoms alike swell at the expense of an
over confding public The B. and 0.
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 W ould-
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. II he de-
clines to accept the conditions so arbi-
trarily exacted, he has perforce to go on
a slow train, as, according to the latest
principles Of these autocratic 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-governing rule of it's half
century and more of existence. In other
words, there are no extra charges of any
character whatsoever on the B. and o.,
and, 6guratively speaking, if man don't
want hash, he don't have to take it, II
he desires 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 in
terest of an already all-powerful and rich
sleeplng-car combination.
The day coaches on the B. & O. Limit
ed are brand new, just out of the shop,
and perfectly appointed, combining all
the latest improvements. They, as all
other cars on the train, run through with
out change, and all in the same unparal
leled time. Note the schedule. Chicago
Limited leaves that city at $40 P. NJ, ar
irving in Washington the next evening at
7:30, and Baltimore an hour later. This
to the National Capital being all any one
could ask. And it is not done at dan.
gerous rate of speed or in an anyway
reckless manner. On the B. & 0. they
take no risks of this sort, but when short
ening up the time merely take out all the
minor stops, and by long, steady runs
cover a vast extent of territory in very
short space of time. Two other trains
beside the Chicago Limited" leave the
Garden City, one at $40 in the morning
and the other at II 10 at night. From St.
Louis the Limited leaves at 8 A. NJ, and
from Cincinnati at 7:3O P. NJ. reaching
Washington next afternoon at $50 and
Baltimore at 1886. There are other trains
also from St. Louis and Cincinnati, and
East bound the B. & O. fills the bill of
popular expectation to u T. West bound
it comes in again with schedule liable
to make the officials of other lines take
to their beds with a winters sick head
ache. The Limited for Chicago leaves
Baltimore at 8 A. NJ, Washington at 8
A. NJ. and reaches Chicago at $50 the fol-
lowing morning, making half-hours
faster time than the much Wanted Lin
tied" of rival line, and on which the
excess charge is no less than So from
Washington more than on the B. & O..
The B. &. O. Limited for Cincinnati and
St. Louis is another c0rker, leaving Balti-
more at noon, Washington at 1:O5 P. NJ,
and arriving at Cincinnati at 7:1O A. NJ,
four hours ahead, and at St. Louis at $50
p. NJ, four and half hours ahead, of the
so-called Limited" Express to these
cities on the other route. The Pittsburg
Limited" on the B. s. O. is an hour and
q half faster from Washington to that city
than any other would-be Limited" and
so throughout the whole Of the B. s. O.'s
matchless new schedule, it ranks far
above any ever gotten out by other lines
no matter what their boasts or assumption
to combine in themselves all the virtue.
excellence and enterprise this whole
country affords. During the past sum
mer great amount Of work has been
done ali along the lines of the Baltimore
& Ohio. The track has been straight
ened, immense quantities of new and
heavy steel rail put down, and to-day
the ride over Picturesque b. q o., with
all it's WOndrOus beauties of nature, its
unsurpassed equipment, luxurious cars,
its very models of railway dining halls
and dining cars, and it's proverbially po-
lite and attentive train men, is a journey
the equal of which, for all that goes to-
please and satisfy, cannot be made on
any other line on the continent.