. Book of the Royal blue . vely stoves? Them city folks, you say,Are buyin the old poker. And tongs, and shovel, too ?I wonder, when they get home, What they expect to do ? Theres Fathers old high deskMothers Cushioned rocking chair—One-fifty, two, three dollars? Well. 1 call tli,it very fair !Fm grateful to this rubbish For the solid cash it brings—Lets go to town to-morrow And buy some nice, new things and —Pink. RECONSTRUCTING A RAILROAD. ATRIP over the Baltimore & Ohioverified the favorable reports cur-rent all summer as to the notableimprovements in progress along thatfamous scenic route
. Book of the Royal blue . vely stoves? Them city folks, you say,Are buyin the old poker. And tongs, and shovel, too ?I wonder, when they get home, What they expect to do ? Theres Fathers old high deskMothers Cushioned rocking chair—One-fifty, two, three dollars? Well. 1 call tli,it very fair !Fm grateful to this rubbish For the solid cash it brings—Lets go to town to-morrow And buy some nice, new things and —Pink. RECONSTRUCTING A RAILROAD. ATRIP over the Baltimore & Ohioverified the favorable reports cur-rent all summer as to the notableimprovements in progress along thatfamous scenic route through the Alle-ghany mountains, and which are toenable the new management to cut thetime between Chicago and New York totwenty-four hours or less. The princi-pal work is being done on the mountaindivisions east and west of Cumberland,where the pioneer curves and gradesare surrendering to modern engineeringand requirements at monumental cuts across foothill knobs andnoses have been burrowed and blown,. 1 (JEW CI I AND GRADE N NORTE MOUNTAIN. abolishing the most pronounced crooksand climbs, and enabling heavier trainson curtailed schedules. The snap shotsshown illustrate the character of the im-provements between Martinsburg andHancock on the Cumberland and Har-pers Ferry division. Just across thePennsylvania State line at Fairhope, onthe Cumberland and Pittsburg division,a new tunnel and two or three steelbridges cut off a semi-circle of severalmiles and correspondingly reduce thewidely mooted twelve-mile grade thatnecessitated two engines from Cumber-land to Keystone, including the one-miletunnel at Sand Patch, in the Alleghanysummits. Already Baltimore & Ohiofreight trains have been lengthened fromtwenty-five to forty cars and pulled overthese mountain divisions with a singleengine of the new mogul pattern. Equalcuts and reductions have been made onthe celebrated division between Cumber-
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