The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-07-24
rennssIrnnia RAILROAD.

PeHnsslvauia Railroad.
rom the Fhila. SATURDAY Night, Juue 25th, 1855
The PeuuS Sylvsuia Railroad is one OF the
greatest systems of interstate cammunica-
tiou in the world. Long years Of careful
AMI iudlcious management has placed it In
a position above the fear OF competition
from rival lines. It's symtem connects two
oceans, and reaches, with its tributary lines,
every important point in the country Its
appointments are superb, and it has con
tfibtei more than any other road to make
travelling a luxury. Accidents to its en-
ployes OF patrons are matters OF rare occur
renee
1t would take columns TO describe in
brief its many advantages. Every safe
guard, every convenience, every comfort,
every luxury that ingenious minds have de
vised and cunning hands fabricated in rail-
road economy, are in pTactica operation on
the Pennsylvania.
TIE Inducements it holds out to summer
tourists are unparalleled 1t controls di-
rect chain Of communication between Phil
adelphia and and the ocean resorts stretch
ing from Sandy Hook to Cape May Point.
IL the country is preferred, the Pennsyl-
vania read carries the traveller to all i'm.
portant places in New York, New England
and Pennsylvania. Whether it is desired to
summer in quiet, sleepy, inland town, or
within sight of green fields and within sound
babbing brooks in quaint old-fastioned
farmhouse, or among the crags and cliffs of
the Blue and Allegheny mountains, OF on
the health giving heights of Mount Washing
ton, this road carries you to the chosen
elysium quickly, cFeaply, and safely.
All the famous health resorts are tapped
by and whether the invalid Ue afflicted
with consumption or hay-fever, the Penn
sylvania will take bin TO the place of cure.
Its enterprise has built up aIOng its main
lines Of travel. within a few minutes ride of
Philadelphia, a hundred little viIIagns, and
places that few years ago we're primeval
wastes are now bright with a new life.
Villas ard cottages, many of them sump-
tuously elegant as the palaces of the Old
Worlds mobiles, dot the hills, surrounded by
carefully-kept grounds, that in summer
make picture of Incompatible rural
beauty. The people of no city in the world
have so many and di versifed places of sum-
mer resort, within syTtding distance, as
have the Inhabitants of Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania road, by means of It's
many fast trains. which leave the station
Broad and Market daily, makes it possible
for the business men to summer at the re-
sort OF his choice, without interfering In any
way with bis business In the city. The
roads facilities for the rapid and careful
handling and transportation of freight are
iDcompaTably fine. Its re cent enterprise In
putting on fast passenger trains. brings
Chicago within tweuty-fhree hours ride of
Philadelphia, and transports the traveller to
Cincinnati In eighteen.
It's rPad-bed is rock -balasted. its rails are
steel its rolling stock of the most approved
pattern, and its employees are trained to
habits of pOIiteness and attention to the
travelling public. ParIur cars, dining cars,
and sleepin9-caUs are attached, where nee
essary, to trains, and it Is one of the won
ders of modern railroad travelling that the
Pennsy lvauia, more than any other road,
has assisted in developing and perfecting,
that one can Hce on railroad train in as
much ease and comfort as in ones own
home.
The Pennsylvania road never retrOgades.
II always moves upward and onward, - and
it uses all legitimate means to compass this
end. 1t is jealous of the rights of its pa.
irons, and quick to defend them The ma
chinery Of its management runs like we'll
oiled piece Of mechanism, smoothly and
without jar or crash. Every new invention
in railroad economy is carefully investigated.
its adoption is found to add to the CON-
fort, convenience, OF safety OF the travelling
public, no expense is spared to secure its
control. Its vast army of employees are
trained to observe this one precept: ''The
comfort of our patrons above all else" It's
motto might justly be written thus: speed
safety