Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1885 — Interesting to Travelers. [ARTICLE]

Interesting to Travelers.

It will be interesting, to people contemplating a trip to the South to learn of the vast improvements in time and accommodations that.have been rendered possible by the recent completion of a remarkably long bridge over the Ohio River at Henderson, Ky., a point ten miles below Evansville, Ind. The length of the bridge proper is 3,686 feet, the span over the channel of the river is 525 feet, the longest span of truss bridge in the world. The bridge is reached by three and one-half miles of solid substantial trestle-work on the Indiana side. With this bridge completed, there is an unbroken rail line between Chicago and Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Florida, and other Southeastern cities over the shortest existing route, which fact was immediately taken advantage of by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad iDanville Route) and its Southern connections, to put on a fast train from Chicago to Nashville, and give to the North and South travel some of the luxuries in fast traveling and excellent accommodations which heretofore have been almost wholly monopolized by the East and West lines. The first through train, which left Chicago at 3:45 Sunday afternoon, July 19, on the new Chicago and Nashville fast line, arrived in Nashville at 7:45 oh Monday morniug, having accomplished the distance between the two cities in the hitherto unprecedented time of sixteen hours. The new train was the first through passenger train from Chicago to cross the mammoth bridge over the Ohio at Henderson, and as such marks an epoch in Southern traffic whose importance was t stifled by the interest shown nil along the lino. This train carries the popular Palace Buffet Sleeping Cars; it leaves Chicago at 3:45 p. m. daily, and arrives at Nashville at 7:45 a. m., connecting with the morning trains out of Nashville in all directions, enabling passengers to reach Chattanooga in the early afternoon; Atlanta and Montgomery early. in the evening, and other Southern and Southeastern points in some instances one-half day ahead of, and in from three to ten hours’ less time than by any other line. Travelers should make a note of this important route, and when going South remember the Chicago and Eastern Illinois.