The Wilmingtonian., 1886-05-15
COlnpleted.

The passage of the train containing the
officials of the Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad
through this city on last Tuesday proclains
the completion of that road between Bati-
more and Philadelphia
AS Wilmingtonians we arc specially inter
ested in the advantages which will natural
ly accrue to this city by this new enterprise.
In the first place it will increase materially
our travelling facilities with the entire west
and southwest. Under the new regime it is
possible for our citizens to take breakfast at
home on any given morning and to breakfast
the following morning in Chicago.
1t may not be generally known, butnever-
theless it is true, that the Baltimore and
ohia Railroad Compauyis the. only line in
this country upon Nnrcns s'htniited Express
Trains" are run without extra charge, and
Furthermore it runs the most luxurious cars
and runs the iastt It trains in the world.
The B. Is o. IS Chicago Limited. composed
Of magnificent new Buffet sleeping and din
Chicago, without the change Of car on the
train, in twenty-five hours and fifty. five min
utes, which is faster than any train upon any
other road running Limitcds, upon which
extra charges are made, or any other. The
B. & O.'s Cincinnati Limited composed of
elegent and most convenient new family
room sleeping cars and day coaches, makes
the run through, without change, in sixteen
and quarter hours, or upwards of four
hours quicker than the Limited of any other
road all the talk of "the Fastest Trains in
the World" to the contrary Notwithstanding,
The B. & O.'s Limited to St. Louis is over
an hour faster than the Limited to Pittsburg.
Baltimore west is one hour longer than from
Washington, all trains on the B. u o., pas.
sing directly through the national capital, it
being the only line So situated, all other
10 ties between the east and the west reach
ing Washington through side issues, as it
were.
OF the wonderfully picturesque features Of
the d. & o., few indeed are ignorant. Poets
have surg The praises of the grandeur Of the
AEeghanies and the Blue Ridge, and The
matchlcss vistas of the historic valley OF the
| Potomac Painters have transferred to can,
vas the glorious combinations of rock, rivel
and ril, while famous prose writers have
made them the theme for books almost with
out end. No land can boast Of country so
replete with scenic and memorable features
and no section Of our own land surpasscs
while few approach it,
Picturesque i. & o., IS no faucirul OF
euphonious title, merely prated Of for effect
but based upon that highest, tmest and mos
imperishabo of foundations Mature.
Independent of the facilities which tht
B. & O., offers to the travelling public thi'
city is also specially advantaged by the i'm
petus that will be given to the western par
of Wilmington by this new railroad. Aread!
Sheriff Ford aud his brother, Col. Pete
Ford, have well nigh completed a large NOR
occo factory at Silver Brook, suburban
village, directly on the line Of the new road
and various manufacturing projects are al
ready taking shape which will within th
next five years. complely transmogrfy u
topography OF our western limits.
A large summer hotel on the Braudywin
will soon engage the attention OF capitalist
, and the historic BraLiywiue will be appre
cated by tourists as it never was before.
r The opening Of the Baltimore and Obi
, maras an impartant epoch in the history
, Wilmington, -....