The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-09-19
THE WONDERFUL B. & D.
Some Interes sting Statistics Concerning
One ofthe Largest Trunk Lines
On The Continent-Cum.
berland's Importance
as a Shipping
Point.

What world of the wonderful 9
map of the Baltimore and Ohio rail.
road opens up to the mind, when
one is cndeavoring TO grasp the i'm.
mensity of its interests. Like the
right lobe of a great human lung il
presents itself to your gaze upon the
map. Commencing at New York--the
larynx-its tracks, like the trachea,
leading to the bronchial system and
uniting the towns, villages, hamlets
and cities of this great commercial
system representing, as il does, the
cellular tissue of the alveoli, and the
great iron and ties, the bronchi Of
the human system.
This mammoth trachea passes from
New York through Trenton, N. j.,
Philadelphia and Chester in Penn
sylvania, through Wilmington, the
liveliest little manufacturing city,
and over the romantic banks and
bosom of the historic Brandywine in
Delaware. On through it goes to
Elkton in the county of Cecil, over
the great Susquehanna and through
the great Maryland metropolis-the
monumental city Of the nation
Baltimore, to the city of Washing
ton the nations capital, and junction
with the bronchi system, permeated
by and ramifying in all directions
the south, southwest. west and north
west-of the republic.
The first division or lobe of this
great commercial lung to the repub-
lie, contains the bronchi or branches
which reach Frederick, Hagerstown,
branching off to the South, through
Harpers Ferry, down through Straus-
burg, Harrisonburg, Staunton and
Greenville, to Lexington. Going
back to Harpers Ferry, it passes
westward through Shenandoah, Mar
tinsburg, Hancock, through the an
thracite coal fields to Cumberland,
thence through the great timber,
coal, gas, iron ore and fire clay
regions, between that and Grafton.
From this point you can go south
into the rich mining regions of West
Virginia. On through the elegant
timber to Parkersburg and west
ward
From Cumberland you can see its
iron arms reaching through Pennsyl-
vania to the north for Johnstown,
and to the north west through Pitts
burg for the lakes, westward to
Wheeling, thence northward through
Ohio, or westward to Cincinnati, or
northwest to Chicago. With these
come the twenty or more grid iron
bars which tie with numerous branch.
es all the main lines together in one
complete system, which permeates
and ranifies every valuable section
Of nearly all the states through
which it passes. No other road in
the union traverses country, the
mountains and valleys Of which are
so nearly the rock ribbed and min
eral buttres sed store house for ma
lures wealth, as this PIONEER arm of
commerce has been developing to
enrich the nation.
II pacoao IN &c fhAnoonI. % Tia
through millions of acres of the
cream lands of agricultural America;
through climates genial and health
full to almost every grade of condi-
tion best suited to prolonged
healthful existence; its mountains
and hills are teeming with ore and
oil, with coal and gas, with timber
and water, with stone and lime, with
sand for glass and fire clay for brick
and the many purposes for which it
10 used.
The Baltimore and Ohio holds the
KEY to all these treasures, and true
to the broad guaged spirit Of the en-
terprise, it has unlocked them alike
to all grades and conditions of hon
est industry, until beauty graces the
homes, plenty fills the barns and
cellars, and bank-vaults in every
hamlet. village and city along it's
lines, for all who have taken the
advantage and applied themselves
industriously to attain the homes
and comforts everywhere apparent
along this great commercial chain
that binds so much of this glorious
republic together. -Springfeld Mon
itor.
You cannot be too narticular