The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-11-14
WHEAT Is a TRUNK LINE:

The readers or the newspapers OF
the day constantly see mention made
of Trunk Line railroads, but compara-
lively few fully understand what is in
tended by the designation. Some
three or four railroad lines running
westward from the A Atlantic sea- board,
are sometimes not wrongly called
Trunk Lines, us they form the main
arteries of traffic toward the West. If
any railroad in the county deserves or
is entitled to the name of grand
Trunk Line, it is the Chicago d. North-
Western Roil,cay The company oper
ating this great line now controls more
miles OF railway than amy other in
America, if not in the world. 1t is
by all odds the most important line of
railroad in any way connected with
Chicago. No other road running out
of Chicago carries anything like as
many passengers, or hauls anything
like the volume OF freight that is trans
ported over this road. it alone runs
N and out of Chicago every day iii the
year, nearly rs many passenger trains
us all the other Chicago roads put to-
gether. AS it is with PASSENGER trains
50 is it with freight not unfre-
quently brings into Chicago fifteen
hundred loaded freight cars in Il single
day, and if it does not bring in thous-
and cars It's managers think it is doing
poorly. Forty to fifty passenger trains
! daily leave and arrive at its depot in
Chicago OF suburban passengers it
carries more than all the other roads
! that run to or from Chicago These
are facts that can be established 10y
any one wishing to do 50. No road
but the very best could do the business
that this great line does. Its track is
OF the heaviest steel rail. and is kept
in constant repair by the constant v'e-
lance OF AN army OF trackmen, and i,
patro.Ied day and night the year
through. for tho double purpose OF
keeping ever e'g connected with it
III perfect condition, and for the entire
safety OF its patrons who are travelling
over it.
No road q0y,clere can show a super
ior track, finer coaches, stronger,
switter or better locomotive engines;
and no other roads west OF Chicago
have ever attempted to approach it in
its equipment OF Pullman Hotel and
Sleeping Coaches. It alone of all the
western roads has the celebrated
Hotel cars, and ON this line only can
the traveller between Chicago and the
Missouri liver procure the comforts
and luXurieS that these cars alone can
furnish. Other lines may talk OF Din
inc cars, and siNteen-wheel coaches,
but not one of them can offer YOU
Pullman or any other form of Hotel
ear. These cars combine great luxury
with the greatest obtainable comfort,
| and at no increase in expense over the
common, old-fa,hioned and ordinary
Sleeping ear. The marvel of those
that travel on them is to know how
the company can afford to lun them
and charge no more for berthS than is
charged in the old fashioned sleeper.
The answer is found in the great vol
ume of travel this road is carrying.
The thousands flock to its lines where
the hundreds seek its competitors.
We are sure that no one who has seen
these cars would ever use any other if
travelling in the direction they run.
They are not for the exclusive use
of the rich, but are just as comfortable
and elegant for the poorer traveller
costing to occupy these cars no more
than does the occupancy OF the old
fashioned sleeper no one need for fear
of expense, be prevented from using
them. They have become 1.-THE rage, -
SO to speak, with the Califoruians, and
have attracted the majority OF that
class of travel
If YOU are about to travel east or
west between Chicago aml Council
BuuS, Omaha, Denver or san Fran
cisco, 1t will pay to see that you get
your tickets 10y the Chicogo d Norh-
Western Haihcag At some future
time we may give YOU further ideas
about this great road. -7he Democrat
In England five hundred blast fur
naces and more than three thousand
pudding furnaces are now idle. The
probability is that a majority of them
will never resume work, owing to the
loss of markets and chance in modes