The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-05-25
B. & o. r. R. CELEBRATINS
ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY
First Brigade of Cars Operated
From Baltimore to EIIicOtt's
Mills, A Distance of Is Miles

Yesterday MAY 24) was the 1O9th
anniversary of the First American
Railroad Train. 1t ran from Baltim 2re
to Ellicott's Mills, Md, and return,
over the first 13-mile section of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad then
building westward. But there was no
sound of bell, nor toot of whistle on
Americas first train, because the
engine was horse.
Nor was it called train, but ''bri-
gade of cars" The B. & O.'s president,
Philip E. Thomas, had published the
first railroad timetable a few days
before. In it he advertised "a brigade,
or train of coaches, will leave the Com
pany's Depot on Pratt street, and re-
turn, making three trips each day
starting at the following hours pre-
cisely,"
The "official annunciation" of this
event was printed in the Baltimore
American in its issue of Friday morn
ing, May q, 1880, a copy of which was
sent The Republican last Saturday
from the office of R. NJ. Van SAINT,
Publicity Director of Public Relations
of the railway, which reads as follows:
We stated in yesterdays American
that the Railroad would be opened
for travelling between this city and
Ellicott's Mills on Monday next, the
oath instant, and we have now the
Measure of publishing an official an
nunciation of the fact. This informa-
tion. we are assured, will be received
with sentiments of unmingled salts
faction by our fellow citizens and also
bv the friends of interior improve
ments in every part Of the Union.
When a practical experiment on so eX-
tended a scale is so soon to be hourly
exhibited, it is scarcely worth our
while to speak of its results in antlcl-
nation, but we will nevertheless ven
fure to assert that it will prove per
fectly satisfactory to every one who
visits the Road and establish conclu-
sivelv the fact of the superiority OF
this mode of intercourse and trade
over every other.
Office Of the Baltimore and Ohio R. r.
Goth May, 1880.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
the Railroad between Baltimore and
Ellicotts' Mills will be opened for the
transportation of passengers on MON
DAY, the oath instant.
A brigade or train of coaches, will
leave the Company's Depot on Pratt
street, and return, making three trips
each day-starting at the following
hours precisely, viz
Lv Baltimore at a. M and Ellicotts, 9 a. M
Lv Baltimore at II a. m. and Ellicotts l p. m.
Lv. Baltimore at p. m. and Elicotts p. m.
The price for the trip of twenty-six
miles, will be seventy-five cents Tor
each person. Tickets to be had at the
Depot. Should the demand be found to
exceed the present means of accom-
mediation, passengers will be under the
necessity of going and returning IN
the same coach until a sufficient add
tional number of carriages can be fur
nished. As soon as this can be effected,
of which due notice will be given, pro-
vision will be made for travelling a
shorter distance than the whole trip.
+. r. IHOMAS, president
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co.
May 20, 1880.
The editors of the National Intelli-
gencer and Telegraph, Washington,
will publish the above three times.
In 1914, fourteen years after this
event-to the day-another great
chapter in American history began,
then the first telegraph message I'M
the world, "What Hath God Wrought"
tapped out by Prof. S. F. B. Morse in
Washington, was received in the same
B. & 0. Pratt Street station in Balti-
more, from which the first horse
drawn train departed.
Added distinction was given this
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