The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-02-17
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.
Some Facts Which will Cost Moth
ing to SUbstantiate, and which
Properly Considered, may
Prove Profitable.

There is in almost everything done
two ways of doing it-One cheerfully
and unreservedly, the other grudg-
iBgly aud condilionally. Mark the
exempliica ion of this in the course
pursued by the two trunk lines having
connection with Washington. the one
direct and the other r0undabo The
direct line, which it is needless to-
remark is the Baltimore and Ohio, in
making the great reduction on the
fare TO Washington for the Inaugural
ton, announced no exceptions 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, Ia the
low rates. No lying arOunf the b. u
o. depot waiting for slow trains; no
programme of travel rude!y destroyed
by refusing acceptance of Inaugural
ton tickets on fast trains. 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 vas doue after
characteristic fashion OF effected ex-
clusiventss. On the ether road inau-
guration tickets are good only upon
certain trains (slow trains), for, upon
the so-called limited trains of ihe
would-be rival line to Washington,
the low-rate tickets are rot good and
more than this, the straight 1uli-fare
ticket Is not good on suc5 trains with
out extra fares and compulsory pay
ing Tor sleeping and Parlcr-car accom-
mOdatious, whether wanted c. not.
To talk about something, the indirect
line refers 10 New York and the
privilege of stopping OF i'll
Washington and then going on to the
metropolis. This can he done by any
body on the tickets issued by ouy
line, provided the time announced is
within the limit of the ticket.
The b. d o. is the only direct line
into Washington, ami passengers from
the west, &ho 20 10 the national CAPT
tai to witness the inauguration cere-
monies nv any other line and thence
to New York, have simply tn double
the track for considerable of the dis
tauce, or going twice over the same
line, as against going direct by the b.
IL 0. Then, too, the other line
dweils upon the special feature it pro-
poses to adopt in running solid trains
to Washington for the particular &C
casicn That this is an acknOwiedg-
ment of making special schedule for
Washington business, and that il
would be roundabout route go get into
that city, is evident upon its face. Ii
is fact that solid trains are run reg
ularly through Washington, between
the west ana east. Only on that liue,
that line is B. * o. 1t is fact, also,
that the Baltimore and Ohio is the
only line in Washington having and
using different divisions for is western
and eastern business, and is not forced
as is the other line t. concentrate all
its trains from all points of tie cOm-
pass, fOr,y-odd miles away from the
city, and then bring them all in on
one track. More than this, the Il.
& o. is the only road which can fur.
nish track room for sleeping cars, so
that they can be occupied during The
stay d: the capital. The B. 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 in getting about at sny line
of the night.