Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-22
HAS IT'S SAY.

HAS ITS SAY.
Ard Straight 20 the Point 1t Is-No E<-
actions, No Extra Charge. and the Fast
ct Time liver Made "Limiteds" by
Neans Excepted.
The Baltimore aud Ohio IS still on deck
AMI more Saucy than ever when it comes to
takirg out in meeting for the interests OF
lie travelling public, as against the exac-
lions Of some other aud would-be rival lines.
It's latest sEo! into the camp of the high
niced and faney-fxiugs lines is = hot one.
end already there is Squirniug and twisting
10 get away from the inevitable. But there
Is no use Of kicking against the prodding,
aud the average man nowadays knows o
thing or two which all the cunningly con.
structcd advertisements of those who want
the whole earth, and then not get enough,
caunot blind him to the actual state Of
affairs. 10 pay eight or ten dollars extra
for the simple riding on a road that as
Sumes all there is in this life worth having
is all bOsh. and no longer will the divi-
dends of railroad company and subsidiary
corporations alike swell at the expense OF an
oyc~rconfding public. The B..& o. ha'
itself gone into the limited express train
business and, as is ever the rule with every
thing done By the solid old corporation, the
people profit. and would-be rival lines vince.
On all the limited trains Of other routes a
SUN is exerted largely in excess of the reg
ular ticket rate, and the passenger, whether
it be his choice or not, has to pay another
extra in the shape of sleeping-car fare. 1t
be declines TO accept the conditions so arb.
trarily exscted, he has p~erforce to 60
on a slow train, as, according to the
latest principles of these sutocratic
companies fast time Is only for
the wealthy. On the B. L D. 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 al[goyerning r"le of the
half century and more of its existence. In
other words. there are no extra charges o.
any character whatsoever on the b. Il u,
and. fgura;ively speaking, if a man don't
want hash, be don't have to take it. 1t he
desires a sleeper, a parlor car, there 1t is,
and the rate for accommodation is only the
regular standard figure, not doubled up, as
IN other lines, in the interest of an already
~al-powerful and rich sleeping-car combina-
ton.
The day coaches on the B. X D. Limited
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 without change. aud
all in the same unparalleled time. Note
the schedule: Chicago Limited leaves tn
city at $40 p. m, arriving in WASH lgto"
he next evening at 1870. and Baltimo e an
hour later. This certainly is flying, o
twenty-five hour run to the Matt mai
Capital being all any one could ask. And
it is not done at a dangerous rate Of speed
or in an any way reckless tanner. On the
B. & 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 Limited leave the Garden City,
one at S.lQi in the morning and the other at
lilo at night. From ST. Louis the Limit
ed leaves at 8 a, m, and from Cincinnati
at 100 D. NJ, reaching Washington next
afternoon at 30 and Baltimore at 1876.
There are other trains also from St. Louis
and Cincinnati, and East bound the b. x
o. fills the bill Of popular expectation to q
7. West bound it comes in again with a
schedule liable to make the officials Of other
lines take to their beds with a winters sick
headache. The Limited for Chicago leaves
Baltimore at 8 a. m, Washington at 3 a.
M, and reaches Chicago at $50 the follow
ing morning, making a half hour faster
time than the much vaunted "Limite1" of
a rival line, and on which the excess charge
is no less than 81 from Washington more
than on the b. L o. The B. 4 D. Limited
for Cincinnati and st. Louis is another
cCrker, leaving Baltimore at noon, Wash
ington at I :OJ D. m and arriving at Gin
cinnati at 40 a. m, four hours ahead, and
at st. Louis at $50 p. NJ, four and a half
hours ahead, ofthe so-cslled Limited Ex-
press 10 these cities on the other route.
The Pittsburg Limited on the b. 4 .. is
an hour and q half faster from Warrington
to that city than any other would-bo Lin
tied" and so throughout the whole of the
B. & O.'s matchless new schedule, it ranks
far above any ever gotten ont 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 summer
a 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 rails put
down, and to day the ride over the Pietur-
esque b. & o. with all its wondrous beauties
of nature, its unsurpassed equipment luxu-
rious cars, its very models Of railway dining
halls and dining cars, and its proverbially
polite and attentive ~trsinmen, 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.