The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-10-06
Ths Railroad Trip Can Be Made the
PIsaSantest Part Of Trip.
ATTRACTIONS THAT ARE GIVEN
~ Going Over the baltimore and Ohio
on the Royal blue Train-The Coun-
try one Passes Through Fair Both
. surpriss and Disappoiutnent



CHICAGO, Oct. 6.-When you decide to
take this biz show in some consideration
should be given TO the question OF how 10
get here aud get the most pleasure ana
prof1t ont of the trim. Chicago In not 80
very far from Providence and other east
ern cities. but Il can be reached by n route
that Yields fully as much to the un-
travelled person az the same length OF
time spent In the fair itself In pursu.
ance Of this theory We decided to
take the Baltimore and OHIO
route. the Royal Blue line to
Washington. aud thence via the southern
route 20 Chicago, through Maryland. the
mountain region Of West Virginia, diag-
anally across Ohio. straight through In
diana to the Worlds fair city. This takes
one through the length OF fertile New
Jersey; the beautiful suburbs OF Phila-
delphia: tho comfortable and home-iiko
Maryland; the disappointing. dingy.
scrubby, unhandsome national capital
and 90 graduated down TO and through
the primitive aud pitiful mountain sec
tion OF West Virginia to the gradual I'm
proysment and the solid comfort and
prosperity of Ohio and Indiana.
The varisty Of Scenery.
Nv no avenue can the Il ,st be left that
0ives the pilgrim such a substantial I'm
bression of the desirabiiity OF returning
10 the region again than this. As one
leaves the vicinity OF the Quaker city and
retains the perfect pictures of rural
beauty there abounding IL brings positive
pain to plunge into the raRged-edged
'Balkimors. the shabby Washington,
and the aboriginal poverty OF West
Virginia with its oil wells. natural gas.
.four brans, coke ovens, tough fried
chicken and soggy bread and potatoes.
Yet. a. you are taken along In the hand
some b & q. cars, or the Pullmans. and
are carefully cared for by the compsny's
people, you look upon the feeting pano-
rama with an interest that
may bs slishtly tinged with
pity, but 10 assuredly heavily
charged with information. You are not
permitted 70 partake Of the discomfort
you feel must abound In the huts aud
lean-sos Of the mountaineers, for you get
dinner and other meals at restaurants BY
che railside that are operated or. con-
trollsd BY the company, and you have am
pie time 20 get your fill of the substan-
tial and well-cooked viands there set
forth.
Nature has done much for this region
that man apparently finds 80 diriicult to
wiring subsisssnce from. The mountains
tower almost over the train at times.
snd the engine pursues the rear car 30
closely that it seems almost as though 1t
meant 20 steal . ride on the rear plat
form. Il pants and tugs mp sharp
grade and then skins down an incline
almost steep enough for a toboggan
chute. You zeal certain mild surprise
that the people who inhabit these cabins
and wiring reluctant existence from
che steep hillsides can resist the magnetic
lnfuenco Of the Baltimore and Ohio
trains the strong current between the
rich and populous East aud the rich and
magnificent West whore there is 90 much
room and 90 much need cf men and labor
IN both, aud seemingly SO little to keep
thsm where they are.
Man the Least Interesting.
But man 10 the most inconsequeu
slsmsnt In the travellers interest In this
country. Nature and the works of man
have provided lavishly for his entertain
ment and instruction, aud the grada-
tion by easy stages into the
1llimitabls cornfelds. the sheepfarms,
shs grazing fields of Ohio aud the all
round farms Of Indiana brings you again
1nto the prosaic. aud, you cannot but feel,
the sanity Of rural life. Then you are
presently plunged into the environs
OF Chicago, which are neither sweet.
wholesome, enterprising or In any sense
interesting. You are landed at the Grand
Central station and you begin to thread
your wav among the tall buildings in
search OF . place to pillow your head,
where the bed need not be duplicated iu
bulk of greenbacks at the hotel Office.
You have been landed In Chicago. IL
you have made the trip over the B & O.,
- fresh AZ when you took the train at
Jersey City, and you have already seen
many things worth gazing at aud remem.
beriug, you have In fact enjoyed
one Of the most interesting railroad rides
1u tSe country, have seen four Of the most
notable cities In the country, have passed
through one section unequalled for
unique interest, have traversed . long
distance In the most fertile and prosper
Gus Of the middlc-wsstern country.
The Fair Another Story.
Then you are at the fair. But thai, as
fhe esteemed Kipling very acutely re-
marks. is another story. As / saw the
fair IL seems quite different thing. and
yields different experience, than l had
been lei 20 expect by the veracious reports
printed In newspapers and elsewhere. 1,
fell far below my authorizations, and
lose far above them. don't
think my experience was at all un' que
~ must have been the experiences OF the
{, aforementioned writers that was unique.
sincs II moved them to write the stuff
they did. Perhaps the newspaper
romancss printed about the fair only iu-
dictate the tendency to turn everything
into stories" that read we'll. l have
been astonished aud shocked to read
in certain papers that TIE fair grounds
were infested with thieves and all kind,
of crooks and thar II was as much as q
perro1 could do 20 keep his purse and
preserve his life. Such yarns are utterly
untrue; silly Inventions Of silly writers
There ID no more risk Ina the fair than In
m ordinsry Sunday schooI--psrhaps not
quite a. n,u h. fer there are no prst 9,
eivl t<achers 10 persuade you and iuveigls