People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — A Grand Excursion. [ARTICLE]

A Grand Excursion.

The Fifth International Convention of the Baptist Young People’s Union of America will be held at Baltimore, July 18th to 21st. 1895, and preparations have been made for the grandest conven tion of Baptists ever held. The grand old city and its environments. so full of historical interest. will be a magnificent meeting place for this great concourse of people. Our No. 33, leaving Chicago at 10.15 a. m . and our No. 11, leaving Michigan City at 8:30 a. m.. elegantly equipped and vestibuled throughout, will on July 16th, in connection wills, the C. H. & D. Railroad, run through to Cincinnati, there connecting with the official B. Y. P. U. train via C. & O. Railroad for Baltimore. The very low rate on One Fare for the Round Trip has been named Tickets will be good going on July 16 and 17, good returning until August sth, inclusive. Stop overs and side trips at any of the famous mountain and summer resorts on the picturesque Chesapeake & Ohio railway within limit of tickets, in either direction.

At Washington every one should visit the government buildings, parks and museums-, and make this a feature of the trip. More than fifty B. Y. P. U. special side trips have been arranged immediately following the close of the convention. Among the most interesting of these will be the trip to Gettysburg. On the morning of July 22d, a special train from Baltimore will carry the excursionists to this, the world’s greatest battle ground, returning in the evening. This will be a delightful and profitable trip— a ride of a hundred and seventy miles — through a country full of historic interest at an unusually low rate of $1.20.

Special excursions will be run to Ocean City, Bay Ridge, Annapolis, and other points delightful and interesting at very low rates. For tickets and other information call on Agents L., N. A. & C. Railway, or address Frank J. Reed, G. P. A.. Chicago, 111. For special details of the trip and information with regard to entertainment at Baltimore address L. A. Clark, Transportation Leader, Crawfordsville, Ind