THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY.



  Leaving the Big Sandy, we go on down the Ohio River to Cin-
cinnati. Between the Big Sandy and Huntington we crossed Four
Pole Creek, and Twelve Pole Creek, so named by the young
Surveyor, George Washington. Seven miles below Big Sandy,
is Ashland, Kentucky, whence goes off our Branch to Lexington,
and Louisville, Kentucky, in the heart of the Blue Grass, on
the crest of the Cincinnati Arch, made fertile by the uplift
of the soft, Trenton Lime Stone, a thousand feet above the Sea.
Here I should love to tarry wn.-ith you, because that is my home.
  Crossing the Ohio River at Cincinnati, we are on our Chesa-
peake  Ohio of Indiana, a separate Corporation, but part
of our System, carrying us into Chicago by trackage rights
over other lines, from the Indiana border line at Hammond.
  Behind us we have left scenery worthy of the canvas of the
Artist. We have passed through thriving Cities, people who
labor with splendid industry for the uplifting of our Nation.
Lovers of Peace, they did not fail to answer writh magnificient
courage, and self-abnegation the stern call to arms. Divided
for a time from those now their brothers, battling for what
was to them a sacred duty, they stand today united as a
Nation, ever lovers of Liberty, ever loyal to their faith, ex-
pecting and demanding the sanctity of our Flag, hostile to no
other Nation, and fearing none.
  Had time permitted, we could have rested at some of the
beautiful places where flow waters famed for their healing
powers. Nestled in the Warm Spring's Valley at the end of the
Branch line that takes us 25 miles up the Jackson's River, are
the Hot Springs, with the delightful Homestead Hotel.
  Just within West Virginia is the classic White Sulphur Springs,
historic, because here gathered year by year such men as Henry
Clay and his associates, and here linger fine traditions of fair
women and gallant fellows, who wrote of themselves imme-
morial tales when the nights were Ambrosial. Then they came
only under summer skies. But, today, with generous hand,
the Chesapeake  Ohio, owner of a large area of land, has pro-
vided the luxurious Greenbrier Hotel, where each month rest
and healing can be found, and the marvelous beauty of the
place can be enjoyed.



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