Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-19
Why Greatest and Rest?

We see some envious mortals object to the
Chicago & 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 one
knows the reply. This this line is greatest,
few facts will demonstrate. operates
nearly twenty-one hundred miles OF road,
GUYS to be exac) and reaches nearly every
important point in Northern Illinois. in
Wisconsin, in Northern Michigan, in Iowa,
in Minnesota, and runs many miles into
Dakota. What other line begins to traverse
so many States None-Not one.
road 500 miles in length is long one.
thousand miles great line. What then
should be said of one 2 100 miles long ?
Just thing 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 pine clad hills of Maine to the
sunny shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Great
Is 1t not? Then for a moment look ut its bust
ness. 1t carries millions think of what mil
hons mean) OF passengers n year, to say moth
ing OF the silver and iron, and lead, and lum-
Der, and cattle and hogs, and thousands on
thousands of car loads of wheat. and oats
and corn, and horses, sheep, and the thou
sand 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.
lake down your map and trace its routes
Fix your eye on Chicago as starting point
Westward in nearly an air line you will trace
Its California line until you reach the Mis-
souri, river at Council Bluhs. opposite Omaha
here is single run of nearly 800 miles
Back to Chicago again you look Northwest.
and follow appfbar of 10
Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin, through
the pine woods of hat whole state and MIN
nesota, and on the st. Paul and Minneapolis
this Is 400 hundred miles more. Again
looking from Chicago you can trace line
through Sparta. Wisconsin, La Crosse. in the
same State, Winona Owatonns, and New
Vim, In Minnesota. and Northwestward far
into Dakota-here We have 695 miles more
of road. Again coming to Chicago we see
two lines running Northwardly-on along
the lake shore to Milwaukee, and thence to
Fond du Lac, and the other running more
inland, through GAINESVILLE. Watertown. etc.
also to Fond du Lac, thence North through
Oshkosh, De Pere, Green Bay and Escanaba,
to Negaunee, Ishpeming and Marquette
here is another 40 miles of road Then We
have line from Chicago to Elgin, Rockford.
and Freeport, another from Clinton, Iowa,
-
kenosha on Lake Michigan to Rockford, in
Northern Illinois. and after all longer lines
we have many short spans to traverse before
we have found out all of the Chicago X
Northwestern Railway.
Is 1t any wonder then that this line is called
the great Western Trunk line So far ahead
OF anything else is it in the way of road bed,
cars. locomotives and hotel coaches, that
even its competitors are obliged to acknow-
ledge that it is the best.
The passengers to or from California.
Colorado. Utah, Nebraska. the Black Hills,
Manitoba, the East. West, North
o. 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 Pull
man or any other form of hotel car, no mat
ter what they elaim-1he Herald