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Identifier: bookofroyalblue17balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nd nowhere,the Cedar Point steamers lazily puflSng overtheir course from city to point, sweet musicfloating by on every side, a consciousnessof rest and keen delight, it may not beArcadia, but it is near, very near, to it. THE ROMANCE OF A RAILROAD. BY H. r. BALDWIN. IN THE iNDIANIAX. SIXCK the days of chivalry are no more,The Knights of the Dust, theirgood-swords, now but a useless andawkward ornament, and the good steedsbeing chased off the face of the earth bybicycles, trolley cars and automobiles, ournineteenth century poets are reduced to thenecessity of praising the achievements ofmechanical contrivances of mans inven- Western Hemisphere, is a romance in it-self, and we cannot sulHciently admire theboldness of the conception and the courageof the man (Stephen A. Latrobe) who con-ceived the idea of building a railroad acrossthe Allegheny Mountains, that mighty bar-rier which nature has placed to guard theimmeasurable treasures of the great West.On February 11, 1S27, nearly three-
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STONK BALLASTED THAfK B. * O. K. W. H. B. tion. Already we have poems on steamengines, machine guns, battle ships andother forms of cold, hard iron and steel,fashioned into shape by the cunning ofmans hand, and the iron horse seemsdestined to play the part in our twentiethcentury affairs that his Hesh and blood pro-totype did in earlier days. And if mereiron and steel can inspire a poem, whyshould not a railroad, made up of so manycomponent parts, develop a romance. The history of tlie first American rail-road, in fact, the first one built on the quarters of a century ago, a charter wasgranted the first American railroad, theBaltimore & Ohio, by the State of Maryland,and on July 4, 1828, Mr. Charles Carroll, ofCarrollton, the last surviving signer of theDeclaration of Independence, lifted the firstspadeful of soil, and with impressive relig-ious ceremonies the corner stone of thisgreat railroad system was laid. At thistime Mr. Carroll, staunch American andtrue patriot as he was, s

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