The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-03

Something ABOUT apId lraCSit---Fron
Raleigh to 8oston--The Sights as
Viewed From a Car Window-Brief
Sketches of Some of the Great
Cities and How They Impress the
Rural Visitor--Knights Tenn.
+ Plar.
Editorial Cor. PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
Breakfast in Raleigh, supper II
Boston! Seems almost incredible. But
1T Is literally true. You can leave
Raleigh on the ATLANTA Special" at :2t
a. no. and reach Boston at II p m
little less than % hours True break
fast at one in the morning IS a htIie
early and supper at eleven at night q
little late, but it will hold good III thls
particular casa.
Sixty ear ago it would have re
quired nearly or quite four weeks &c
travel @ land from Raleigh to Bos
ton. Even ten years ago it was atour
DAYS Journey. That day is over. The
time clipping and space anlhilatlDg
trains le V no ground uncovered be
tween the two cities at the end OF
twenty two hours. But when the
writer came o time was consumed
A freight train wreck and a torn up
track Just North of Weldon d layed
our train five or six hours, knocking
the through train connections into the
middle of the next day. That, how
ever, was an exception and Tot the
rule
Notes O. travel are not always In
tert sting To begin with it requires
a versatile pen; the travelling must be
done through section fall Of interest
ing sights. Even then the writer may
fail to carry the reader with him aid
show the scenes as they would appear
Another obstacle Just here is shat,
/ while millions have never seen the
couutry with their own eyes, the E tst
ern portions of the nited States have
been written up so often that it is G
difficult task to give reading people
anything new or the subj CT B 1t few
Svushern people ever , Norch of tlti
! more and New York and | will have
something about a comparatively IN
explored country before this cruel war
is over.
You can go from Raleigh to Boston
by three or four diff rent routes, but
the quickest is over the Seaboard All
Line via Weldon, Petersburg and
Richmond TIE "Atlanta Special" runs
over the Atlantic Coast Line from
Weldon to Richmond thence over the
Potomac and Fredericksburg to @ ian
tico, Va, then over a part of the Pen
nyslvania system up the Potomac river
to Washington. Richmond and Wash
iDgton, each beautiful cities are grow
ing more so every year. The scenery
up the Potomac from Q lantico is meg
nifcent-not mountains, but billy and
bedecked with beautiful towns homes
and farms. The hills are covered il
some places with spruce pine and are
pretty beyond description.
At Washington you can have choice
Of either of the great double track
trunk lines to New York via Baltimore
PHILADELPHIA and Wilmington, Del
Ny ticket read over the Pennsylvania
system. 1t said to be the best man
aged road IN the world, splend d'y
equipped aud has but few accidents.
Ali trains leaving the large cities are
made up Of at least a dozen coaches
often more. AS you enter the gate tC
the train yard g gate K eper examines
your ticket and tells you which train
to enter. O her men stand at the side
Of the train and hurry you Onward
toward the engine, In this way the
front coaches are flied first and as far
back as is needed. II the entire train
is not filled the empty coaches are cut
loose just before the train starts In
this way passengers are not crowded,
and no tim5 is lost in adding extra cars
should the travel be heavier than ex
pected. Through trains leave on most
Of the trunk lines every hour or two
and focal trains much ~oftener. Freight
and passenger trains run on different
tracks. None of the trains between
Washington and New York carry
sleepers. The trip is made in less than
six hours and there Is no time for sleep
ing.
Il costs a great deal of money to
build and equip the Northern roads
but they CARRY 80 much business that
they are better paying property than
the cheaper lines The road beds are
rock ~oallasted, tracks are of the heavi
est eel. Fifty and sixty miles an
hour a be made with ease and safety.
When o train Is running at such sDefd