Show ONE HUNDRED I YEARS OF RAILROADS Today In Baltimore Md Md the theone theone theone one hundredth anniversary of o the I granting ol of the charter creating I the Baltimore and Ohio railroad will be celebrated According to the tb historian ot of oth the road load the tb charter granted grunted by Maryland in 1827 Is the one and andI I the same under tinder which the more move and Ohio will continue Into its second century It was the tint legislative grant crant In the I States Sates under the author author- authorIty authority I ity ot of o which u a railroad In a very elY I definite sense to sense to carr carry on a a gen Ien- gen gen- general eral crat freight and passenger busi- busi busi business was ness ness was actually stal tell con con- constructed constructed completed and aed is today still oper operating without change chanse of name or charter charier From Front this act the Baltimore and Ohio received its title and the right to build a 1 railroad from the tho city of Balti Balti- Baltimore more snore over o the Allegheny moun moun- mountains mountains tabs to some point on the Ohio river er The Th terms of o the th were carried out to the lh letter Jetter and this accomplishment is one ot of o the great American achievements The Baltimore and Ohio railroad alone as distinguished from the few tramways BYs and short lines JInes In InI I I existence or contemplated In America when it l was ws s chartered which em embryonic railroads were later absorbed by companies of subsequent origin may fairly be said to be the pioneer In rail rail- railroading reading as the term is under under- understood understood stood today Chroniclers of ot rail rail- railroad railroad railroad road development de seem to agree that in Sn America the th Baltimore and Ohio began beian the great Gnat system ot of railroads which directly or lad lad- Indi Indirectly serves senes every city city village hamlet and farm larm This celebration reminds us that the railroad age ace which Is b yIeld yIeld- yield Inc lug somewhat Its prestige Is b not so 80 old One hundred years ago America was without railroads In Intact fact the tho world was being served In transportation by man and his dumb brutes Today railroads are everywhere even in darkest Af At- Africa rica The countr country least touched by y the Iron horse is Sa the oldest Sn In civilization ChIna China Without the railroads paralysis would come to Industry so great has been the development of ot rail I I traffic In the hundred years cars sInce the tho Baltimore and Ohio was au authorized I to proceed to build a rail rail- railroad railroad railroad road |