Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-11-22
Has ITS SAY.

Exacsions. No Extra Charge,
and the Fastest Time
Ever Made. '.Lim.
iseA'' by Means
/ Excepted.
The Baltimore and Ohio is still on
deck and more saucy than ever when it
comes to talking out insneeting 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 a good one,
and already there is squirming and
twistingto get away from the inevita-
BILE. But there is no use of kicking
against the prodding, and the average
man now a-daYs knows a thing or two
whicn all the cunningly CONSTRUCTED
advertisements Of those who want the
whole earth, and then not get enough,
cannot blind him to the actnal state of
affairs. TO pay eight or ten dollars
exira for the simple riding on road
that assumes all there is in this lite
worth having is all bosh, and no longer
will the dividends of railroad company
and subsidiary corporations alike swell
at the expense 0fgan over confiding
public. The B. and o. has itself gone
into the ''limited" express train busi-
ness; and, as is ever the rule with
everything done by the solid old cor
poration, the people profit, and would
be lines vince. On all the sslimited"
trains of other routes sum is exacted
largely in excess of the regular ticket
rate land the passenger, whether it be
his choice or not, has to pay another
extra in the shape of sleeping car fare.
Ii he declines to accept the conditions
80 arbitrarily exacted, he has perforce
to 60 on slow train, and according to
the la'est principles of these autocratic
companies. fast time is only tor the
wealthy. On the b. and 0. 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 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, ffguratively speaking, if man
don't want hash, he don't have to take
1t. If he desires sleeper,a parlor car;
there it is, and the rate for accommo-
dstions is only the regular standard
figure, no doubled up, as on other
lines, in the interest of an already ALL
powerful and rich sleeping-car combi-
nation.
The day coaches on the B. d o.
Limited are bran new, just out of the
shop, and perfectly appointed, combin-
ing 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 5:1O p. M, arriving in WASH
lngton the next evening at 80, and
Baltimore an hour later. This certain
y 1s living, TWENTY-FIVE hour run to
the national capital being all any one
could ask. And it is not done at q
dangerous rate of speed or in anyway
reckless manner. On the B. s. q. 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 ter
r1tory In very short space of time.
Two other trains beside the Chicago
Limited" leave the Garden City, one
at 3: 10 in the morning and the other ut
l!:lO at night. From ST. Louis the
Limited leaves at 8 q. m and from
Glhcinnau VI at 80 p. m, reaching
washington next afternoon at 2:3O and
Baltimore at S:S6 There are other
trains also from st. Louis aud Gin
cinnati. aud east bound the b. & O.
fills the bni of popular expectation to a
L. West bound it comes in again with
schedule liable to make the officials Of
other lines take to their beds with q
winters sick headache. The Limited
for Chicago leaves Baltimore at 8 a. M,
Washington at 9 a. m, and reaches
Chicago at 9:20 the following morning,
making halt-honr's faster time than
the much Wanted 'sLimited" of a rival
line, and OIL which the excess charges
is no less than SO from Washington
more than on the B. s. D. The B. &
U. Limited for Cincinnati and ST.
Louis is another corker, leaving Balti-
more at noon, Washington at l :O5 p.
M, and arriving at Cincinnati at z 10
3. M, four hours ahead, and at St.
Louis at $3.50 p. m, four and a half
hours ahead OF the so-called "Limi-
ted" express to these cities on the 9TH
er routes. The Piltsburg "Limited"
on the B. & o. is an hour and a half
faster from Washington to that city
than any other would-be "Limited, !"
and SO throughout the whole of the
b. u. O's matchless new schedule, it
ranks tar above any ever gotten out by
other lines, no matter what their boasts
Or assumption to combine in them
selves all the virtue, excellence and en-
terprise 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, i'm
mense quantities OF new and heavy
steel rails put down, and to-day the
ride over the Picturesque B. s. O., with
all its wonderous beauties of nature Its
unsurpassed equipment, luxurious
cars, Its very models OF railway dining
halls and dining cars, and its prover6-
tally polite and attentive train men, is
journey the equal of which, for all
that goes to please and satisfy, cannot
be made on any other line on the con-
tinent.