Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-18
AMONG THE FINEST.
One Cause of the Boom in the Glen
wood and HaZeIwOod District.
IMPROVED RAILROAD SERVICE.
The Baltimore and Ohio Making Great Ef-
forts to Please Its Patrons.
TALK WITH TICKET AGENT SMITH
lange is the order of nature and the rule

Change is the order of nature and the rule
of man. Improvement follows change
New ideas and methods are crowding out
old ones all over the world. People of this
day look back to primitive railroading with
wonder and astonishment how so crude a
system, beset with so many difficulties and
dangers to the public, could have been re-
garded with favor. But being recognized
as necessity, Improvements were suggested
and adopted, until to-day the railroad system
is approximately perfect.
Twenty or so years ago, when the Baltimore
and Ohio was in its infancy, it afforded very
unsatisfactory suburban accommodations
This was not altogether the fault of the road
The population was too sparse to justify
better service. Property was held out of the
market or sold very sparingly. so that but few
buildings were put up. Population increased
slowly. The railroad was uDjustly blamed for
causing this depression by refusing to afford
sufficient trains for the travelling public. 1t
did all it could without incurring heavy loss.
But all this is changed. The suburban dis
tricts penetrated by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad are among the most fiourishing in the
county. Great landed estates have passed and
are still passing into the possession of thou
sands of industrious people, and are covered
with comfortable homes sheltering large pop
ulations, which are rapidly becoming the CEN
tiers of important industries. Credit for this
improvement is due. in large measure, to the
Baltimore and Ohio, which encouraged it in
every way-by establishing stations where
needed by building sidings to facilitate local
traffic by increasing the number of trains to
accommodate the people, and by general i'm
provement of the service corresponding to the
new requirements.
Twenty years ago George Singer made over
lures for the purchase of large tract of land
near Glenwood but receiving no encourage
ment from the owner and learning that rail-
road facilities were not what he desired, he
abandoned the project and made his invest
ment at Williamsburg, where he builtone of the
costliest houses in the county. If the Balti-
more and Ohio service had been what it is to-
day, Mr. Singer would no doubt have carried
out his original purpose and given Glenwood
its first boom.
While casting about yesterday for reason
for the remarkable development of the district
which includes the rising towns of Hazelwood
IOCdl doSCu9Cl
Agent E. D. Smith, Of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, and from him obtained the informa-
tion desired. 1t is due almost entirely to the
splendid suburban service on that road. Mr.
Smith, as his many friends well know, is
modest man and averse to talking for publica-
ton, but he was pre- vailed upon to make q
for the benefit of the public, and as
a matter of justice to the corporation with
which he has been identified for almost
quarter of a century. He said:
1.-THE suburban service of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad has been undergoing gradual
improvement for the last six or seven years,
until now it is equal if not superior to that
of any other road leading out of Pittsburg.
The number of trains running daily between |
Pittsburg and Bissell, is miles out is As, "a
each way. The Sunday service is particularly |
good, there being seven trains each way. Ha- |
zelwood and Glenwood are especially favored |
in this respect, all trains except one each way |
stopping at those places. have for 20 years |
made it point to ascertain from the patrons |
of the road their views as to the number of |
trains required as well as to the times of ar
rival and departure, and have made it rule to |
so cover the ground as to leave very short in
tervals between trains. While there may have |
been, and perhaps was, cause for complaint
years ago in the early settlement of the dis
tract, there certainly is none to-day. Everything
possible is being done to please our patrons by
giving them an exceptionally good service, and
| think they will bear out what say"
After remarking that still further improve
ments were in contemplation, Mr.. Smith added:
mot only has the service been improved as
stated, but we have given our patrons the finest
depot in the city and coaches of the latest and
best construction. In the latter respect we
are on a par with any other railroad in the
country. Another feature of great importance
to our friends is the fact that under the super
vision of Mr.. ]. V. Patton we rnn trains strictly
on time, so that man might safely regulate
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