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. Book of the Royal blue . M^^ A SONG OF THE OLD AND THE NEW. BY JEROME P. FLEISHMAN. N INETEEN Hundred and Three! Just think!Another year gone by!In Nineteen Two—twixt me and you—We had our tear and New Year, too, like that now closed,Will hold its joy and pain;For every year we have our cheerAnd live through woe again. Nineteen Hundred and Three! Ah, me! How quickly fly the years! Twelve months ago we watched just so. With surging qualms and fears, The old year die, the new spring up; We made full many a vow Of better days and nobler ways— Just as we make them now. Nineteen Hundreil
. Book of the Royal blue . M^^ A SONG OF THE OLD AND THE NEW. BY JEROME P. FLEISHMAN. N INETEEN Hundred and Three! Just think!Another year gone by!In Nineteen Two—twixt me and you—We had our tear and New Year, too, like that now closed,Will hold its joy and pain;For every year we have our cheerAnd live through woe again. Nineteen Hundred and Three! Ah, me! How quickly fly the years! Twelve months ago we watched just so. With surging qualms and fears, The old year die, the new spring up; We made full many a vow Of better days and nobler ways— Just as we make them now. Nineteen Hundreil and Three! We sing A gladsome song for you; Heres hojiing now that every vow We make may yet come true. Ami, though the old year lingers still In memories sweet to me. May you, New Year, be filled with cheer For those who welcome thee. Book ok ihe Royal Blue. PUBLISlllil) IIV IHE Passenger Dkiartment of tub cc Ohio Railroad. Vol. VI. BALTIMORE, JAXUARY. 1903. No. .NEW DlMNli ilV THE .V uHlU HAILKUALI. FEEDING THE TRAVELING PUBLIC. SOME twenty years ago the Baltimore &(Ihio Railroad transformed a passengercoach into a dining car in which therewere eight tables, four on a side, with aseating capacity of thirty-two. The seatswere the kind ordinarily used in pantry was diminutive and the ice boxfor meats, etc., was carried on the plat-form, and the kitchen was a plain kitchen,not the elaborate culinary emporium ofto-day. Altogether this first attempt tocater to the hungry traveling public mightbe considered very primitive in comparisonto the present luxurious method. Thiscar, operated on trains between Chicagoand Garrett, was the nucleus of the famousB. & 0. system to-day. The next dining car of the Baltimore &Ohio was one transformed from a Pullmanparlor car; since then the cars have beenconstructed on special lines. Passing overthe evolution of the dining car in a scoreof years, and dealing only with the
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