The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-12-12
Why GREATEST N HEsrg

Ject to the Chicago q North Western
Railway being called the greatest
and best line in the country. What
means greatest? Is it more length
OF line, miles operated and business
transported? What means best!
Every n knows the reply. That
this line is greatest, a few facts will
demonstrate. 1t operates nearly
twenty nj hundred miles of road
2,07S to be exact and reaches near
ly every point in Northern Illinois,
In Wisconsin, in Northern Michigan,
in Iowa, in Minnesota, and runs ma
ny lines into Dakota. What other
line begins to traverse so many
States? None-Not one.
A road 500 miles in length is a
long one. A thousand miles makes
4 great line. What, then, should be
said of one 2,100 miles long? just
think of it. If it was laid eastward
from New York it would reach more
than two thirds Of the way across the
Atlantic Ocean, or from the PIKE clad
hills of Maine to the sunny shores of
the Gulf of Mexico. Great is it not?
Then for a moment look at its bust
ness. 1t carries millions (think of
what millions mean of passengers q
year, to say nothing of the silver and
iron, and lead, and lumber, and cat
tie and hogs, and thousands on thou
sands of car loads of wheat, and oats,
and corn, and horses, sheep, and the
thousand and one other kinds of
freight that is grown or used or
handled by the people of the great
Northwest, through which it is the
great iron highway.
Take do.sn your map and trace its
routes. Fix your eye on Chicago as
a starting point. Westward, in
nearly an air line, you will trace its
California line until You reach the
Miss, uri river at Council Bluffs, op-
posite Omaha, here is a single run of
nearly 500 miles. Back to Chicago
again you look Northwest, and fol
low another of its routes through
Madison, the Capitol of Wisconsin,
through the pine woods of that whole
State and into Minnesota, and on to
St. Paul and Minneapolis, this is 400
miles more. Again looking from
Chicago you can trace aAine through
Sparta, Wisconsin, La Crosse, in the
same State, Winona, Owatonaa and
New Ulm, in Minnesota, and North
westward far into Dakota, here we
have 625 miles more of road. Again
coming to Chicago we see two lines
running northumberland along the
lake shore to Milwaukee, and thence
to Fond du Lac, and the other run
ming more inland, through GAINESVILLE,
Watertown, ETC., also to Fond du Lac,
thence North through Oshkosh, De
Pere, Green Bay and Escanaba, to
Negaunee, Ispheming and Marquette
here is another 440 miles of road.
Then we have a line from Chicago
to Elgin, Rockford and Freeport, an
other from Clinton, Iowa, to Ana
mosa in the same State, another from
Kenosha on Lake Michigan to Rock
lord, in Northern Illinois, and after
FL longer lines we have many short
spans to traverse before we have
found out all of the Chicago & North
Western Railway.
Is it any wonder, then, that this
line is called the Great Western
Trunk Line? So far ahead OF any
thing else is it in the way of road
bed, cars, locomotives and hotel
coaches, that even its competitors
are obliged TO acknowledge that it is
the best.
The passengers to or from Califor-
MIA, Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, the
Black Hills, Minnesota, Manitoba,
the East, West, North or South,
should see that they are. furnished
tickets by this great line. Forget
not that this alone of all the roads
west or north of Chicago, run the
world-renowned Pullman hotel car.
No other western road has Pullman
or any other form of hotel car, no
matter what they claim.-Ihe Her
aid.