. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . tural causes, acertain sum is paidat once to the wife,children or lawfulheirs. It is a mostexcellent associationin all its details, and a lasting safeguard against destitution and the time it was organized the Baltimore and Ohio Company gaveoutright, to base operations upon, a large sum in its stock, which isquoted at about two hundred, and upon which a semi-annual dividend offive per cent is regularly paid. The association is managed by the officersand employes of the road, and bears upon its records the names of nearlytwenty-four t
. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . tural causes, acertain sum is paidat once to the wife,children or lawfulheirs. It is a mostexcellent associationin all its details, and a lasting safeguard against destitution and the time it was organized the Baltimore and Ohio Company gaveoutright, to base operations upon, a large sum in its stock, which isquoted at about two hundred, and upon which a semi-annual dividend offive per cent is regularly paid. The association is managed by the officersand employes of the road, and bears upon its records the names of nearlytwenty-four thousand The system has proved so successfulthat other large railway corporations are adopting its general plan oforganization and management. The quartet remained in Baltimore longer than had been originallyintended, but there was so much of deep interest in cormection with theCompany that it appeared as if the inspection of one feature was hardly*completed before another and even more interesting one claimed atten- _^____ ^_ ^ _ *°- *^^. tainly thereis no otherrailroad or-ganization LL^ *1 liOl k history thusreplete withevents of an ter, or thatthe youngor old maystudy withgreater ad-vantage orinstriiction. EN ROUTE. Car No. 217 was attached to a .special engine, and .stood in CamdenStation awaiting the pleasure of the quartet. Camden iStation means(Jamden-street Depot, Baltimore,—the fashion in the .Monumental Citybeing to term passenger-depots stations, the name of the streetthey are located upon. Strangers quite naturally make the mistake ofsupposing that station means some point out of the city, and become moreor confused as to whereabouts. Those who visit Baltimoreneed never go astray if they remember tiiat Camden Station is uponCamden street, which is not difficult to find, as it is one of the best-knownthoroughfares in the city. The station is a large edifice fronting an en-tire square, and when built was considered one of the grand
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