Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1884-11-29
Has ITS SAY.
And Straight to tho Point it is. No Ex-
actions. No Extra Charge, and the
Fastest Time Ever Made. Linn
tied" by Means Excepted.

Tho Baltimore and Ohio is still on
deck and more saucy than ever whom
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. 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 inevita-
bic. But there is no use of kicking
against the prodding, and the average
man nowadays knows q thing or two
which all the cunningly constructed
advertisements 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 a railroad COM
pany aud subsidiary corporations alike
swell at the expense Of an over-confd
ing public. The B. and o. has itself
gone into the ''limited" express train
business, and, as is ever the rule with
everything done by the solid old cor
poration, the people profit, and would
be rival lines vince. On all the "lim-
tied" trains of other routes sum is
exacted largely i'll excess Of the regu
lar 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 condition so arbitrarily
exacted, he has perforce to go ON
slow train, as, according to the latest
principles Of these autocratic eompan-
les, fast time is only for the wealthy.
On the b. and u. the best is ever
deemed the honest due OF all, and the
great American inaxlDI thai every man
Is his own master - follow his Own
sweet will has ever been tho all gov
ernlng 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, fguratively speaking, it man
don't want hash, he don't have TO take !
it. II he desires sleeper, parior
car there it is, and the rate for accom-
modations is only the regular standard
figure, not doubled up, as on other
lines, in the interest Of al already all
powerful and rich sleeping-car combi-
nation.
The day coaches on the B. and 0.
Limited are brand new, just out of the
shop, and perfectly appointed, COM
bining 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 at 1880,
and Baltimore 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 dangerous rate of speed or in an
anyway reckless manner. On the B.
and 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 vast
extent Of territory in very short
space of time. Two other trains be-
side the Chicago Limited" leave the
Garden City, one at s:lO in the morn
ing and the other at lilo at night.
From st. Louis the Limited leaves at
a. M, and from Cincinnati at 1880 p. |
M, reaching Washington next after
noon at 2:30 and Baltimore at 1856. !