The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-20
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP,
Some Facts which will Cost Nothing to Substan.
tiete, and which. Properly Considered,


There is in almost everything done
two ways of doing it-one cheerfully
and unreservedly. the other grudging-
ly and conditionally. Mark the exam
plifics ton of this in the course pur-
sued by the two trunk lines having
connection with Washington, the one
direct and the other roundabout. The
direct line, which it Is needless to re-
mark, is the Baltimore and Ohio, in
making the great reduction OH the fare
to Washington for the Inauguration,
announced no exceptions to the privi-
leges accorded the holders of such tick
cts, but to the contrary, threw open it's
entire service, limited express as well
as other regular trains, to the low rates.
No laying around the Baltimore and
Ohio depot waiting for slow trains; no
programme of travel rudely destroyed
by refusing acceptance ofinauguration
tickets on fast trains. How strong the
contrast on the other road. When
forced to follow the lead of the Balti-
more and Ohio in making the reduc-
ton in rates, it was done after char
acteristic fashion of affected exclusive
ness. 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 extrafares
and compulsory paying for sleeping
and parlor car accommodations
whether wanted or not. To talk about
something, the indirect line refers to
New York and the privilege of stopp-
ing off in Washing and then going on
to the metropolis. This can be done
by anybody on the tickets issued by
any line, provided the time announced
is within the limit of the tickets.
The B. & 0. is the only direct line
into 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
the track for considerable of the dis
lance, or going twice over the same
line, as against going direct by the
b. & o. Then. too, the other line
dwells on the special feature it propos-
es to adopt in running solid trains to
Washington for the particular occa-
blou. 1Iut tu1S 10 dll dChuOWl6uSe
ment of making a special schedule for
Washington business, and that it
would be a roundabout route to get in
to that city, is evident upon its face.
1t is 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 &
Ohio is the only line in Washington
having and using different divisions
for its 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 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 oc-
cupied during the stay at the capital.
The B. & o. has provided space for fif-
ty extra cars within short distance
of the depot in Washington with broad
board walk, and the place illuminated
by electric light, SO that there Gau be |
no difficulty in getting ab6gt ata1y
time of the night.