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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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and the Worlds Fair City. This route will be the favorite highwayduring the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904, between the East and the West.The trains are modern throughout. The Coaches are marvels of comfort. TheDrawing-Room Sleeping Cars are spacious. The Dining Car service is unexcelled. New YorK and Chicago Line Two vestibuled trains run between New York and Chicago daily. One viaPITTSBURG, affording a daylight ride through the Allegheny Mountains, withObservation Car. The other runs via NEWARK, OHIO, crossing the Ohio Riverat Benwood. These trains are equipped throughout with new Coaches withmodern ventilation system, Pullman Drawing-Room Sleeping Cars and completeDining Car service. Pittsburg and Cincinnati Line Two vestibuled trains daily each way via Columbus. These trains haveentirely new equipment. The day trains with Cafe Dining Cars and the night trainswith Drawing-Room Sleeping Cars. The Coaches are of new design with spring-raising windows and sanitary ventilation.
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Book of the Royal Blue. Published Montiiiy kv thePassenger Department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroaf*. Vol. VI. BALTIMORE, APRIL, 1903. No. 7. A SPRING-FEVER SONG. BY S. W. GILLILAN. T^AINT so bad t work in winterJ^ When th ice is evrywhere,When theys chills in all th breezes .\n a shiver in th air;Taint so had t work in summer When th towns so blistrin hot,That yere bound to suffer nohow An ye mights well work as not.But t work in springs di.sgustinWhile \er fishin tackles rustinAn yer heart is filled t bustin With desire to git away Where th lights an shadders play On some inlet t th bay—Anywhere—Im fairly lustin Fer a ehanst f sneak away! Jest t sneak away, I tell ye,I aint carin how ner where. Want t hear th bluebirds whistleAn t stretch myself fer fair; Want t wade through dew-wet meddersWith my tackle an my bait— Set down somewhere with th sun-grinsAn jest wait an wait an wait. I dont keer f they aint a nibble While th blackbirds shrill notes dribble In a tinklin, ti

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