The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-02-12
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.
Some Facts which will Cost Nothing
to Substantiate, and which, Prop
erly Considered, may Prove
Profitable.

There is in almost everything done,
two ways of doing it-one cheerfnlly
and unreservedly, the other grudgingly
and conditionally. Mark the exemplifi-
cation OF this in the course pursued by
the two trunk lines having connection
with Washington, the one direct and
the other roundabout. The direct line
which it is needless to remark is the
Baltimore & Ohio, in making the great
reduction on the fare to Washington for
the Inauguration, announces no excep-
tons to the privileges accorded the
holders of such tickets, but to the
contrary, threw open its entire service,
limited express as well as other
regular trains to the low rates. No
lying around the B. & o. depot waiting
for slow trains; no programme of travel
rudely destroyed by refusing acceptance
of Inauguration tickets on fast trai ms.
How strong the contrast on the other
road! When forced to follow the lead
of the Baltimore and Ohio in making
the reduction in rates, it was done after
a characteristic fashion of affected
excluslveness On the other road in
auguration tickets are good only upon
certain trains tslow trains), for, upon the
so-called limited trains of the would
be rival line Washington, the low
rate tickets are not good; and more than
this, the straight full-fare ticket is not
good on such trains without extra fares
and compulsory paying for sleeping and
wanted or not. To talk about some
thing, the indirect line refers to New
York and the privilege of stopping off
in Washington and then going on to the
metropolis. This can be done by any
body on the tickets issued by any line,
provided the time announced is within
the limit of the ticket. I'LL
The B. & o. is the only direct line
into Washington, and passengers from
the West, who go to the National
Capital to witness the Inauguration
ceremonies by any other line and thence
to New York, have simply to double the
track for considerable of the distance.
or going twice over the same line, as
against going direct by the B. & o..
Then, too, the other line dwells upon
the special feature it proposes to adopt
in running solid trains to Washington
for the particular occasion. That this is
an Acknowledgements of making special
schedule for Washington business, and
that it would be roundabout route to
get into that city, is evident upon its
face. 1t is fact that solid trains are
run regularly through Washington,
between the West and East, only on
one line, and that line is the B. e. 0. 1t
is a fact also that the Baltimore and
Ohio is the only line IN Washington
having and using different divisions for
its Western and its Eastern business,
and is not forced, as is the other line,
to concentrate all its trains from
all points of the compass,
forty-odd miles away from the
city, and then bring them all in on one
track. More than this, the B. & o. is
the only road which can furnish track
room for sleeping cars, so that they can
be occupied during the stay at the capt.
tai. The B. & O. has provided space for
fifty extra cars within short distance
of the depot in Washington, with broad
board walk, and the whole place iilumi-
mated by electric lights, so that there
can be no difficulty in getting about at
any time of the night.