The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1884-12-04
HAS rrs sAx.
And Straight 60 the Point Et Ia. No
ExaCttOzs, No Extra Charge, and
the Fastest Tine Ever Made
Limitedss by Means
Excepted. .-..-.

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TIE Baltimore and Ohio is still OF
deck and more saucy than ever whei
it comes TO talking out IN meeting TO
the interests of the travelling public, a
against the exactiOns of some othel
and would-be rival lines. Its lates
shot into the camp of the high-priee(
and fancy-fxingS lines is a hot ont
and already there is squirming anC
twisting to get away from the ineyi
| table. But there is no use of kicking
against the prodding, and the average
man nowadays knows Thu or two
which all the cunningly c-AstructeC
advertisements of those who want the
whole earth, and then not get enough
cannot blind him to the actual slate OF
affairs. To pay eight or ten dollars ex.
/ ira for the simple riding on 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 corporations alike swell at
the expense of an over-eOnfding public
The b. and D. 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 wGuld-be rival lines
| vince. On all the limited" trains of
other routes a 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 de-
clines to accept the conditions so arbi-
traTily exacted, he has perforce to go on
a slow train, as, according to the latest
principles of these autOcratic eOmpa-
mics, fast time is only for the wealthy.
On the b. and o. the best is ever deemed
the honest due of all, and the American
maxim that every man is bis own
master to follow his own sweet will
has ever been the all-goyerning 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, figurativeiy speak
ing, if a man don't want hash, he don't
have to take it. If he desires a sleeper,
a parlOT car, there it is, and the rate
for Accommodations is the only standard
figure, not doubled up, as on other lines,
in the interest of an already ail-pOweT-
full and rich sleeping-caT combination.
The day coaches on the B. & o.
Limited are brand new, just out of the
shop, and perfectly appointed, eOmbin-
ing all the latest improve ents. 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 5:10 p. NJ, arriving in Washing
ton the next evening at ! 30 and Balti-
more an hour later. This certainly is
flying, a twenty-five hour run to the
National C,pital being all any one
could ask. And it is not done at a dan
grrOus Tate of speed or in an anyway
reckless manner. On the b. IL D. they
take no risks of this sort, but when
shortening up the time merely take out
all the minor steps, and by long, steady
runs cover a vast extent of territory in
a very short space of time. Two other
trains besides the Chicago Limited"
leave the Garden City, one at $40 in the
morning and the other at Fl 10 at night.
From st. Louis the Limited leaves at 8
A. n. and from Cincinnati at 7:30 P. NJ
reaching Washington the next after
noon ut 2:30 and Baltimore at 3:35.
There are other trains also from st.
Louis and Cincinnati, and Feast bound
the b. and D. fills the bill of popular ex-
pectatiOn to a 7. 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 Limited for Chicago leaves Balti-
more at P NJ, Washington at 9 A. NJ,
and reaches Chicago at 9:2e the follow
ing morning, makinga half hours faster
time than the much Wanted Limited"
of a rival line, and on which the excess
charge is no less than 50 from Wash
ingtOn more than OF the b. 81 y.
The b. & D. Limited for Cincinnati
and st. Louis is another cOTker, leav-
ing Baltimore at noon, Washington at
los P. NJ, and arriving at Cincinnati at
7:lO P. NJ. four hours ahead, and at ST.
Louis at $50 P. NJ, 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. & %. is an hour aud half fast
er from Washington to that city than
any other wOuld-be Limited" and so
throughout the whole of the b. &. O's
matchlesS new schedule, it ranks far
above any ever gotten out by other
lines, no matter what t cir boasts or
assumption to combine IN themselves
all the virtue, excellence and enterprise
this whole country affords. During the
past summer a great amount of work
has been done all along the lines Of the
Baltimore & Ohio. The track has been
Strengthened. immF quantities of
new and heavy stee il put down. and
to-day the ride over Picturesque ). &
o., Sith all its WOndrOus beauties of
nature, its unsurpassed equipments,
luxurious cars, its very models of rail-
way dining halls and dining cars, and
its prOverbially polite 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.