. Book of the Royal blue . to a historical record of thegreat fire in Baltimore, it iswith the assurance that a GreaterBaltimore will arise from the ashes. Although the executive home ofthe Baltimore 6 Ohio Railroad, to=gether w^ith the auxiliary offices insurrounding buildings, were sweptaw^ay, its extensive railw^ay stationsand terminal facilities, both passen=ger and freight, w^ere spared. Theseinclude Camden Passenger Station,Mt. Royal Passenger Station, Camdenterminal warehouses and the piers,elevators and enormous freightyards at Locust Point. Baltimore w^as by no meansw^iped off the map
. Book of the Royal blue . to a historical record of thegreat fire in Baltimore, it iswith the assurance that a GreaterBaltimore will arise from the ashes. Although the executive home ofthe Baltimore 6 Ohio Railroad, to=gether w^ith the auxiliary offices insurrounding buildings, were sweptaw^ay, its extensive railw^ay stationsand terminal facilities, both passen=ger and freight, w^ere spared. Theseinclude Camden Passenger Station,Mt. Royal Passenger Station, Camdenterminal warehouses and the piers,elevators and enormous freightyards at Locust Point. Baltimore w^as by no meansw^iped off the map; it is ready tohandle all the business offered still forms one of the quatrain ofcities connected by the Royal BlueLine—New YorR, Philadelphia,Baltimore, Washington. It is onlyforty=five minutes from Washington,w^ith trains every hour on the hourin both directions. It has solid ves=tibuled train service daily betw^eenPittsburg, Columbus, Cleveland,Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville andSt. Louis, the Worlds Fair i IIHKI OENTKAL HUILDING. Book of the Royal Blue. Published MojNthly by thePassenger Department ok the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Vol. VII. BALTIMORE, MARCH, 1904. THE GREAT FIRE OF BALTIMORE. mHE great fire which destroyed theheart of the business center of theCity of Baltimore may be consideredthe most disastrous conflagrationof modern times. By modern times ismeant that period since the introduction ofthe so-called fireproof skyscrapers, and tlieshorter, but even more impregnable, hankbuildings of granite and marble. While the number of these buildingswas insignificant compared with the totalnumber destroyed, yet their destructionnaturally created the most intense , iron and steel melted in the face ofthe blast; marble and granite burst andcrumbled. Inflammable stuff disappearedwithout trace. Buildings crumbled andfell and their fantastic ruins left but littlesemblance of their former greatness. The fire first appeared at lO.*.^
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