. Book of the Royal blue . Photo liy James H. Hare, Colliers WeeklyMAJOR SQUIER TAKING HIS PLACE IN THE MACHINE PREPARATORY TO HIS FLIGHT WITH ORVILLE WRIGHT Reasons Why is the book, Its which HE railroad as a factor in the building up of a nation has become apart of the curriculum of the schools throughout the United States,and as the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was the first American railway,this company has received requests from schools all over the countryfor literature outlining the principal facts in its career since its begin-ning in 1827. To present these facts in the most condensed and
. Book of the Royal blue . Photo liy James H. Hare, Colliers WeeklyMAJOR SQUIER TAKING HIS PLACE IN THE MACHINE PREPARATORY TO HIS FLIGHT WITH ORVILLE WRIGHT Reasons Why is the book, Its which HE railroad as a factor in the building up of a nation has become apart of the curriculum of the schools throughout the United States,and as the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was the first American railway,this company has received requests from schools all over the countryfor literature outlining the principal facts in its career since its begin-ning in 1827. To present these facts in the most condensed and readable formpurpose of a little booklet entitled Reasons Why. It is intended as a text-presenting the principal historical and geographical facts in concise form,appearance has occasioned many complimentary remarks by the press, portions ofare quoted as follows:. With an appropriateness belonging to the oldestrailroad in America, the Baltimore & Ohio has justpublished one of the most valuable of recent rail-way pamphlets, designed to bring out the positionheld by the railroads of the country in the characterof educational factors. The booklet is an historicaland geographical treatise on the Baltimore & OhioRailroad and presents an interesting view of thedevelopment of American transportation. Among the unique titles claimed by the roadare those of the first railroad in America; the firstto obtain a charter and the only existing railroadbearing without change its original charter name;the first to be operated for passengers and freight;the first to utilize locomotive power; the first topenetrate the Alleghany iVIountains; the first toissue a time table; the first to employ electricity asa means of communication, as it was over its wiresthat Professor S. F. B. Morse, in 1844, sent hisfirst message, and the first to employ electricity asa
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