. A history and description of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad . he application to the City authori-ties for this privilege met with the most determined opposition, and gave riseto a very warm discussion, which was participated in by all classes of thecitizens. Pending the consideration of the subject by the City authorities,town meetings, conventions, ward meetings, and every other kind of assem-blages were of daily occurrence, while the newspapers teemed with their pro-ceedings, and the communications of the excited disputants. It is interesting aswell as amusing at this day to look over the
. A history and description of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad . he application to the City authori-ties for this privilege met with the most determined opposition, and gave riseto a very warm discussion, which was participated in by all classes of thecitizens. Pending the consideration of the subject by the City authorities,town meetings, conventions, ward meetings, and every other kind of assem-blages were of daily occurrence, while the newspapers teemed with their pro-ceedings, and the communications of the excited disputants. It is interesting aswell as amusing at this day to look over the files of the American, EveningGazette, and other papers of that period, and to read the effusions with whichtheir readers were daily served through their correspondents. After thepassage of the ordinance, however, the passions of the people subsided, andthe public pulse beat free again. The work was commenced shortly afterward,the inner depot being then established in Charles below Pratt street. The carscommenced running down Pratt street in the fall of .
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