Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14
Passenger Men Predict a Great Ey-
curSiOn Season, if the Hot
Weather Only Keeps Up.
HOW TO CATCH WHALES IN TRAPS.
Mr. Johnston Unfolds Plan for Selecting
Works of Local Artists for
the Exhibition.
ROMANTIC VIEW OF TIE PENITENTIARY
Man Who Carried an Annual Pass for Is Years
Finally Visits Chicago

A lew more QdVS ike NeSUeruay, anO
there viii be an exodus of people to {
colder cline The man with wad in his in.
side pocket won't stand hot weather. and
nothing short of poverty and the few ex,
ceptional cases that may be found of indif
ference to caloric will keep swelterina
humanity at home during the summer
Railroad maps, great and small, are being
scanned these days by those who sigh to get
away, but haven't made up their mind:
where to go. The Baltimore and Ohio anG
PENNSYLVANIA Railroads have issued large
sized volumes treating of the attractive
places which this glorious land of lib
crty and British America offer
The covering OF the pretty book
which speaks for the Pennsylvania is
adorned with a locomotive, and number Of
men and women dressed in outing costumes,
sitting On the cow-catcher rather hot and
dirty place in which to spend much time;
still, it is a pleasing picture, and. requires
no energetic twist of the Imagination TO see
that great engine daslling at full speed to
the mountains, lakes and seashores.
TantaIlzing Pictures for the Poor.
Such visions on hot days are TOO tantaliz-
ing for mortals, and come near realizing
Bob Ingerscli's idea Of hades, which is
otherwise expressed and very frequently
felt when one SAYS: 81 have wine appetite,
but beer pocketbook.
Il costs money to travel, but then Penn
sylvania agents will answer that their book
offers over LOO forms of excursion tours,
and surely out of that number almost any
body can be pleased. The Baltimore and
Ohio also holds its competitor even in its
offer Of rates and routes, and it is matter
Of toss-up which volume to peruse. Both
treat of the same thing. The passengermen
are wild over the prospects for the summer.
AT the Baltimore and Ohio office the
clerks GEe rushed with inquiries about the
seashore and a number of fishing clubs are
making arrangements to camp on the Poto-
mac and Castle,nan rivers
District Passenger Agent Thomas L.
Watt, OF the Pennsylvania, was up to his
eyes in work yesterday, and nothing but
the top of his head could be seen bobbing
around behind pile of letters and papers
Prospects. Gly boy?" he asked. ''Why,
the outlook was never better. Ever since
the general excursion tickets were put on.
sale, June l, We have received from IS to
100 letters a day, iIquiring about the sea-
shore and other resorts. We expect TO do a
great business this summer.
Four Popular Trips to Atlantic City.
''The first popular excursion to Atlantic
City viii be run July Q, and there will be
four in all. The special connec-
ton from Huntingdon to Bed
ford viii be put on June %.
1t VIII be an entire new train just made
by the Pullman Company. AT present par
Tor cars are run on that division connecting
with through trains on the main line. The
dates for the Idlewild picnic ground are
rapidly being taken. On Monday the Allen
School children of the Southside,
and have a good time. As for the new
through trains which have recently
been put on from New York to Chicago,
they are doing remarkably well and going
ahead Of ali expectations. 1t was feared
these yesJibuled trains would hurt the
business of the limited, but the latter ex-
press is keeping up its average. There are
manE travellers who would ride on no other
train, and the extra fare is nothing to them.
Both the keystone and Chicago express
trains have been averaging about so through
passengers per trip, and they have been
running about a week or a little more
Division Passenger Agent L. D. Smith, of
the Baltimore and Ohio road, was i'll yester-
day, but his Office was not closed. The
Baltimore and Ohio sells excursion tickets
every Sunday to Ohio Pyle, and one form is
on sale for Somerset on Saturday, good to
return until Monday. This read opens the
season to Atlantic City with the first excur-
sion on July 2 The indications are that the
special viii be crowded. The Fourth fol-
lows soon after, and VIII give people an
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Mr.. Smith thinks the outlook for the sum-
mer was never brighter.
Other Preparations for the Summer.
On the Lake Erie road the summer Pull
man service to jamestown will be put on
June p and to Thousand Islands June % or
earlier. Mr.. Clark states that MANY of
the cottage owners at the New York resorts
are getting their summer homes in shape to
receive their families. Up 10 date the
weather has been too cold and few people
have gone away, but the heat of Yesterday
the inquiries, and the rush will
soon comr,=nce. 1t has been decided that
all tickets for points beyond Syracuse will
be good to stop over at Niagara Falls. If
the ticket is about to expire when the pas
5enger arrives there, conductors are instructed
to give receipt for it and another can be
had in exchange good for ten days. This is
a. AAllAS e1NAolL uiUCh " DG 1OT,
though the rule has been in force on the
Pennsylvania TO boom CresSon Springs for
several years. The Lake Erie has also es-
a statson at Elwood. The popular
excursions on both the Allegheny Valley
and the Lake Erie roads at 81 for the round
trip viii be run la,er on in the summer.
Mr.. Clark also joins in the chorus that the |
season promises to be a good one
The Business to the Lakes.
General Passenger Agent James Ander-
son, Of the Allegheny Valley, is a Young
hustler who seldom gets left, and with q |
good line back of him he expects to do a |
rafting business this summer to the lakes |
and New York summer resorts. Like the |
agents on more pretentious roads, Mr.. |
Anderson and his clerks are kept busy
inquiries about rates, etc. The |
Valley and the Lake Erie will alternate on |
popular excursions. Extra sleepers to Lake |
wood and Chautauqua Will be put on the |
road in a short time. Mr.. Anderson thinks |
will be more popular than ever |
this year. Niagara is such wonderful at |
traction that it holds its own all the year |
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