Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY.


In this latter-day school of abbreviation in
time, work, and words, there is none SO fla
niliar or so significant as "F. F. "" These
letters, when easy contentment in earlier days
filled the place now occupied by GREATNESS
progress, where the synonym OF aristocracy,
and interpreted meant the First Families Of
Virginia. Bnt though it be in initials name
sake. in meaning the Fast Flying Virginan
gives no hint of likeuess to that other period
of the F. F. W. save in its perfection of ease
and luxury for, as now applied, the F. F. v.
is the pet name of the Vestibue Limited run
over the Chesapeake and Ohio route between
New Y ork. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash
ngton, Old Point Comfort, Cincinnati and
Louisville.
Be the tourist along the Chesapeake and
Ohio merely rapid traveller in haste to &C
complish purposes of business, or be he bent
upon the nsatiate trail Of pleasure, the journ-
cying is filled with luxury, comfort. and ee-
gance, which the F. F. V. affords in that de-
gree equalling the palatial abode of the mil
ionaire, and presents with grateful novelty to
the less fortunate bread winner One is al
most coaxed to deem life upon the wheels
life easiest to live" and a siesta in Pullman
car the surest of all modes of restoration for
tired nature. Perchance the tourist does not
fancy to thus seek oblivion, but to find it in
the beguilements of fiction. For this taste
there is provision in the library on the cars,
complete in works of light travel, standard
literature, and romance. These are so easy
of procurement that the hand needs but to
touch the electric button and an attendant
awaits the order for some choice Wand from
the platter of books. It is a pleasant thing
to lie down to rest and to read and in the
perfection Of detail which goes to make up
perfect train this was not forgotten. Alone
on your couch, the curtains may be drawn to
shut out the light and secure seclusion, and
another touch of the magic button, which is
veritable Aladan's Lamp of the period, brings
Immediately an electric globe, which is placed
in the berth, and instantly daylight radiance
falls upon the pages of your book. With the
return of morning a bath and breakfast be-
come the coupled ascendant rivals OF both bed
and books. The former creature comfort finds
refreshing indulgence in a lavatory spacious
and well -turnished for the making OF the tot
let, while the latter is blessed with the absence
of the familiar cry, Twenty minutes for
breakfast Like cordial. hearty invitation;
wide open stands the dining-room door, while
within its fragrant precincts time and savory
contents alike abound The bon-z,i1ant and
the exquisite each will find everything pleas
ing to good taste, for their is no flaw in either
the cuisine or appointment of the F. F. v.
dining cars. The damdsk is solft OF fabric
and snowy of color; the service in cut glass
and china, pleasing to the eye in their artistic
design while their contents are delicious to
the palate. The surroundings all tend to the
Ieisurely enjoyment of the excellent menu J;
there is good taste within, and the most g lori
Gus mountain scenery and valley landscape
without. The meal over, an accepted invita-
ton of the luxurious seats in the palace car,
to view the scenery from the clear and spa
cious windows, gives still further enjoyment
of trip on this model train, and the combin-
ed senses seem not ample enough to contain
all the glory of the panoramic beauty which
nature reveals for their reveling.
y = There are situated
along the route greater number of health
and pleasure resorts than can be found in a
like area anywhere else in the world, and all
amid the most beautiful of mountain scenery.
The tourist leaving New Y ork at p. m. from
the PENNSYLVANIA station, Philadelphia at 1850
D. M, Baltimore at o:3o p. m, and Washing
ton at 1905 p. m, reaches the Virginia noun
tains the next morning in time for breakfast
at Rockbridge Alum Springs Goshen Sta
tion) the Warm, Hot, and Healing Springs
(Millboro' Staton), Old Sweet and Sweet
Chalybeate Springs (Alleghahy Station),
White Sulphur Springs (within view OF the
train from White Sulphur Station) and at a
convenient hour after breakfast, Salt Sulphur
| Springs (Fort Spring Station), and Red Sui
phur Springs Lowell Station). From Gin
cinnati and Louisville. travelling in the oppo-
site direction, the same end is reached as to
the arrival at the mountain resorts. while Old
Point Comfort, Newport News and Virginia
| Reach on the seashore are reached in time tor
suDner. Washington and Baltimore early in
the afternoon, and Philadelphia and New
York for supper
Bv an admirable arrangement of train
schedules. the tourist who leaves New York
or anv of the Eastern cities by the F. F. V
for either Cincinnati or Louisville, and returns
by the same model train, passes over the en-
tire route in daylight, giving view of tbs
most charming scenery on the continent, re
nlete in scenes of historical interest, the mos