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T would be difficult to cite an instance where the demand on the part of the public for better architecture has been more conscientiously met than in the case of the great railroad corporations throughout the country in the improvement of their stations. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company has gone as far if not farther than most roads in that they have an architectural department to give special thought to the needs and requirements as well as design of the many new stations they are building at various places along the line of their road.

The new station at Sandusky is a good sample of the newer stations along the Baltimore & Ohio for cities of smaller size. This station is in the nature of a terminal, being at the end of the division. It is reached by a spacious walkway running through from Market to Washington Street in front of the station. There is also a spacious driveway from both streets leading up to and around the rear of the station. Between the walk and driveway are located grass plats and flower beds.

The exterior walls of the station are of gray pressed brick with stone trimmings and stone base. The roof is designed with a large overhang for protection of the passengers against the weather, and is covered with red tiles which, combined with the gray brick and stone, give a pleasing color effect.

The center pavilion is a large general waiting room with entrance doors from the

driveway on the rear and from the platform in front. Around this are grouped the ticket office, women's retiring room and toilet, and smoking room, with toilet; the baggage room being located on one end. The rooms are all finished throughout with oak, the general waiting room having a paneled wainscot 3 ft. 6 in. high. The building is heated throughout by steam heat, the entire layout being arranged with a view to the comfort and welfare of the public.

The new station at Cambridge, O., is like the one at Sandusky, only in that the same materials of construction are used with the same general color scheme, light gray brick walls, limestone trimmings and red tile roof, with broad overhanging eaves. This station (Cambridge) has been planned as a through station, to be used jointly by the Baltimore & Ohio and the C. & M. Ry., and is located in the angle of the tracks. Two large waiting rooms have been provided, one for men and one for women, and the ticket office and toilet rooms for each are located between. Large doors open from each waiting room to the tracks on opposite sides to afford easy access to all trains.

The baggage-room is at one end of the building where it is convenient to both tracks. The entire space surrounding the building and filling the angle of the tracks is paved, and flower beds have been provided where the space admits in order to further add to the attractiveness of the building.

Both Sandusky and Cambridge stations were planned and designed and erected under the direct supervision of the Company's architect, Mr. M. A. Long.

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O spot in this section of the country is richer in historical associations than the region surrounding Sandusky. The early history of the city is so closely linked with the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, which was built out of Sandusky in the early thirties of the century just passed, that the erection of the new passenger station was a fitting monument in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the road south to Newark. The Lake Erie division of the Baltimore & Ohio was the second railway constructed in the state. The line was built from Sandusky to Monroeville in 1838 and opened to Newark in 1847. The new Sandusky passenger station occupies a site a short distance from the first depot erected by the company. It is in keeping with the many other new stations that have been built by the Baltimore & Ohio along the line of its extensive system from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. The company's first depot stood just north of Market street. It served the company for almost half a century, when it was removed to make room for the great increase in business necessitating larger terminal facilities at this point. The second station was located at the corner of Market

street, overlooking beautiful Sandusky bay and the mammoth coal, ore, lumber and grain docks of the company. The new and handsome station just opened to the public is reached from the business portion of the city by two of the main streets of the city. It is constructed of light and dark gray brick. The material used below the belt course and quoins is of light gray, while the balance of the exterior is of dark gray. The belt course and other trimmings are of Bedford limestone. The roof is of red tile and the entire interior furnishings are in quartersawed oak, with hard oil finish. The floor is of edge grainling leaf pine and marble wainscoting is used throughout in each room. The heating and ventilating system is of the best design and in completeness of convenience and arrangement for the comfort of the patrons of the road the new station is a model in architecture and construction. From floor to eaves the building is 17 feet high, 76 feet long and 281⁄2 feet wide. The general waiting room is 282 feet wide and 34% feet long. Connecting with the general waiting room is a woman's waiting room 13 by 214 feet. The smoking room is 934 by 131⁄2 feet and the baggage room 114 by 24 feet. The ticket agent's office, in the north end of the general waiting room is 101⁄2 by 14 feet. The

building occupies a site mid-way between two of the prominent thoroughfares of the city. The approaches from the streets are wide and inviting. The carriage drive is spacious and with the grass plats and flower beds that surround the building and walks completes an improvement that is a credit to the company and one of the attractive public buildings of the picturesque bay city. The old stations have seen Sandusky grow from a city of small proportions and it is a safe prediction to make that the new passenger depot will shortly see an impetus in the industrial conditions of Sandusky that will far eclipse all former years. No city in the country is more advantageously situated for the location of manufacturing establishments than Sandusky. The excellent railway facilities afforded by the Baltimore & Ohio, reaching out to all parts of the country, touching the industrial points of the most prosperous section of the country, with its large ore and coal docks and mammoth warehouses, its miles of tracks in the Sandusky yards, offers capital seeking location a site equalled by few and surpassed by no other city along the chain of the great lakes. Admirably designed by nature as the site of a city, with its great bay admitting to wharfage the largest lake steamers, the future of the city is indeed encouraging to those who have watched carefully its sound and progressive growth during the past several

The Baltimore & Ohio Railway has the record of shipping in a single season of navigation more coal over its Sandusky dock than any other dock on the lake, its total shipment for one season being one million tons. While the amount of tonnage handled has steadily increased with each succeeding year the passenger business has kept pace with the freight department. Sandusky

is the gate-way to Cedar Point, with its famous bathing beach and modern hotels, to the Lake Erie archipelago with its numerous vine-clad islands set like emerald gems amid the sun-kissed waves of old Erie. Famous as the union prison during the civil war Johnson's Island, opposite Sandusky, is a popular outing place for the excursionist and camper, while Put-in-Bay, Middle Bass, Kelley's Island, Lakeside, Ballast Island and other well known Lake Erie resorts are attractive places of interest to the seeker of health, recreation and amusement. Famous Cedar Point, the one spot on the continent marked by such a diversity of conditions that the individual wants and requirements of everybody are satisfied, is easily accessible from the city. The Baltimore & Ohio Railway passenger trains run directly to the Cedar Point steamboat landing, from which steamers depart every twenty minutes for the resort. No other place compares with this beautiful Lake Erie resort in popularity, pleasure, comfort and health giving qualities. Occupying, as it does, a semi-circular peninsula, some nine miles in length and less than a mile in width, it faces to the east, so that the prevailing southwest breeze of summer time insures it an equable clime, balmy and mild. It is complete in hotels, cottages and varied amusements. People come to Cedar Point from all parts of the country and over one million passengers were carried by the steamers plying between the city and the resort during the season of 1907. During the summer season the Baltimore & Ohio Railway daily carries into Sandusky, from points all along its line, thousands of people on their way to the charming near-by resorts where they while away the hours amid delightful scenes.

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HE city of Cambridge is a thriving, prosperous, busy town of about 15,000 people, located almost centrally in the field from which the celebrated Cambridge coal is produced, fifty miles north of the Ohio River at Marietta, and a like distance west of the same stream at Bellaire, where the historic bridge of the Baltimore & Ohio crosses the Ohio. The surrounding country is hilly and picturesque. The old National Road constitutes the main street. The last tunnel on the Central Ohio Division of the Baltimore & Ohio, as one goes west, is just outside the corporate limits of Cambridge.

Guernsey County, of which Cambridge is the county seat, is named after the far Isle of Guernsey, from which many of the early settlers came more than a hundred years ago. Various family names of evident French derivation may yet be recognized. The town itself is named after Cambridge, Maryland, from which some of the original proprietors came; and Wills Creek, which passes through the county from south to north, in a slow and devious course, derives its name from the stream of the same name

in that state. Fine schools, miles of paved streets, sewers and city water works are among the town's advantages.

Until 1885 Cambridge was no more than a prosperous rural county town. The soil generally in the vicinity is not the best, and this combined, perhaps, with the conservatism of the French pioneers to delay development and progress. About that time natural gas, obtained near at hand by a company composed chiefly of residents of the city of Baltimore, was piped into Cambridge and put into general use for light and fuel. The mining of the soft coal in this region, partly by drifts and partly by shafts, took on more vigor. The abundance of both sorts of fuel led to the building of a rolling mill, now owned by the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, and from this industry as a beginning the present manufacturing prosperity of the place may be dated. Later on, the Morton Tin Plate Co., named after Isaac Morton, who was one of the local pioneers and also a builder of the Central Ohio Division, was organized with local capital, and a tin plate works was erected. It, too, is now owned by the American Sheet and Tin Plate Co. The Cambridge Glass Co. followed with a great