The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-20

SOME FACTS WHICH WILL CosI
NOTHING TO SUBsTANTIATE, AMI
WHICH, PROPERLY CONSIDERED
NAY PROVE PROFITABLE.
There is in almost everything done
two ways of doing it-one cheerfully
and unreseryedly, the other grudgingly
and conditionally. Mark the exempli-
| fication of this IN the course pursued
| by the two trunk lines having connec-
ton with Washington, the one direct
and the other roundabout. The direct
line, which it is needless to remark is
the Baltimore and Ohio, in making the
great reduction on the fare to Washing
ton for the inauguration, announced no
exceptions to the privileges accorded
the holder of such tickets, but to the
contrary, threw open its entire service,
limited express as we'll 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 accept
ance of Inauguration tickets on fast
trains How strong the contrast on
the lead of the Baltimore and Ohio in
making the reduction in rates, it was
done after characteristic fashion of
affected eXclCsiveness. On the other
road Inauguration tickets are good only
upon certain trains (slow trains), for,
upon the so-called limited trains of the
would-be rival line to Washington, the
lOw-rate tickets are not good and more
than this, the straight full-fare ticket
is not good on such trains without ex-
ira fares and compulsory paying for
sleeping and parlor-car accOmmoda-
tions, whether wanted or not. To talk
about something, the indirect line re-
fers to New York and the privilege Of
stopping off in Washington and then
going on to the metropolis. This can
be done by anybody on the tickets is
sued by any line, provided the time an
nounced is within the limit of the
ticket.
The B. & o. is the only direct line in
to Washington, and passengers from
the West, who go to the National Cap
ital to witness the Inauguration cere-
monies by any other line and thence to
New York, have simply to double for
considerable of the distance, or going
twice over the same line, as against go.
ing 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
acknowledgment of making a special
schedule for Washington business, and
that it would be roundabout route to
get into that city, is evident upon it's
face. 1t is a fact that solid trains are
run regularly through Washington be-
tween the West and the East only on
one line, and that line is the B. & 0.
1t is fact also that the Baltimore and
Ohio is. the only line in Washington
having and using different divisions
for it's Western and its Eastern bust
ness, and is not forced, as is the other
line, to concentrate all its trains from
all points of the compass forty.Odd
miles from the city, and then bring
them all in on one track. More than
this, the B. s. o. is the only road which |
can furnish track room for sleeping
cars, so that they can be occupied dur
ing the stay at the capital. The Il. &
O. has provided space for fifty extra
cars within a short distance of the
depot in Washington, with broad board
walk, and the whole place illuminated
by electric lights, so that there can be
no difficulty Il getting about at any
time of the night.