. . diffi-culty at a speed of fifteen miles an hour. The Directors and theirfriends were elated, and an enthusiast among the Directors, oramong the friends, when the highest rate of speed was attained, eigh-teen miles an hour, inscribed it in a book to be transmitted to poster-ity, 0 tempera, 0 Mores! ■^ Tempora Mutant, et Nos Mulamiscum i/lis.^ 1873. Baltimore to Washington, 40 miles; time, 39 minutes. The return trip from EUicotts Mills was made in fifty-seven min-utes, distance thirteen miles, August 28th, 1830. The first improved
. . diffi-culty at a speed of fifteen miles an hour. The Directors and theirfriends were elated, and an enthusiast among the Directors, oramong the friends, when the highest rate of speed was attained, eigh-teen miles an hour, inscribed it in a book to be transmitted to poster-ity, 0 tempera, 0 Mores! ■^ Tempora Mutant, et Nos Mulamiscum i/lis.^ 1873. Baltimore to Washington, 40 miles; time, 39 minutes. The return trip from EUicotts Mills was made in fifty-seven min-utes, distance thirteen miles, August 28th, 1830. The first improved passenger car built and used in England, andits pattern adopted by the United States, was thus constructed. Itwas a perfect ^Pullman in its day; it was a long box, seats ranalong on each side, similar to our city cars, a long deal table wasfixed in the centre, and ingress and egress was by a door in the rear,with stei)S reaching nearly to the ground. The accompanying cutis an exact representation of the first ^^ improved passenger cars. (SKB NEXT PAGE.) 27. In 1836 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was completed to Har-pers Ferry, and the Washington Branch was in operation. Thecost up to this time for this distance, Baltimore to Harpers Ferry—eighty-two miles—was $4,000,000. In 1839 the construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad wascommenced between Harpers Ferry and Cumberland, ninety-eightmiles, and opened for travel in November, 1842. In 1847 the sur-veys and construction of the*Baltimore and Ohio Railroad were re-sumed, and the road was completed to Wheeling, June 1st, 1853. The distance from Baltimore to Wheeling, or the length of theroad, is three hundred and seventy-nine miles, and the total cost ofconstruction was $15,639,000. Since the completion of the mainStem in 1853, two important extensions have been made by the com-pany, one from Grafton to Parkersburg on the Ohio river, and onefrom Washington to Point of Rocks, known as the Metropolitanroad. It is the
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