The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, on account, I 

 presume, of its being a rather out-of-the-vva}^ route to 

 Chicago, has succeeded in getting the Trunk Line 

 Association to grant it the privilege of selling through 

 tickets to Chicago, with the right to stop off at any station 

 on the line. This gave me a practical opportunity of 

 studying the great value of such a concession. As a 

 number of European tourists have been attracted to this 

 line by reason of the concession, I interviewed several of 

 them and found that all of them had selected the route 

 because the\- could "break the journey as often as tliey 

 pleased." So they are jogging along leisurely, stopping 

 at such points as they think will interest them, and there- 

 b}' getting a nuich better idea of the varied interests and 

 scenery of the country. All of them had stopped in 

 Philadelphia, some for a few hours, some for a couple 

 of days. They said tlie}^ were more pleased with Phila- 

 delphia than anv other city they had seen, and were 

 astonished at its size, its Public Buildings, its Park and 

 its stores. Astonished, because they had "never cared 

 much about Philadelphia, don't you know," as explained 

 ))y one Englishman, whose complexion showed the blush 

 of forty years acquaintance with Bass' ale. 



They were plea.sed apparently with everything but 

 the condition of the streets; the cobble paving exciting 

 their ridicule, and our roads their commiseration. I said 

 that they must not expect a city which covered more 

 ground than London, — with onh- one fourth of its popula- 

 tion, — which was constantly growing and expanding, 

 which furnished comfortable homes first and streets and 

 street paving after, to be so well paved as a city over two 



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