The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-12-06
Why Greatest and Best +?

We see some envious mortals object to
the CHTCAGo.AND NORTH WESTERN RAIL
WAY being called the greatest and best line
in the country. What means greatest? I?
Is it more length of line, miles operated
and business transported? What means
best? Every one knows the reply. That
this line is greatest, a few facts will demon
srrate.-It operates nearly twenty-one
hundred miles Of road (2,0IS 20 be exact)
and reaches nearly every important point
in Northern Illinois, in Wisconsin, IN
Northern Michigan, in Iowa, in Minnesota,
and runs many lines into Dakota. What
other line begins to traverse so many
States ?-None-Not one.
y road 500 miles in length is a long one.
A thousand miles makes great line
| What, then, should be said of one 21OO
miles long ?-Just think of it-Tt it was
laid eastward from New York it would
reach more that two-thirds of the way
across the Atlantic Ocean, or from the pine
clad bills of Maine to the sunny shores of
the Gulf of Mexico.-Great is it not ?
Then for a moment look at its business
1t carries millions (tbink of what millions
mean) OF passengers year, to say nothing
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 thous-
and and one other kinds ef freight that is
grown or used or handled by the people of
the great North through which it is
the great iron highway.
Take down your map and trace its routes.
Fix your eye on Chicago as a starting
point. Westward, In nearly an air line.
you viii trace its California line Jsutil you
reach the Missouri river at Council Bluffs,
opposite Omaba-here is a single run of
nearly 800 miles. Back to Chicago again
yOI look North west, and follow another
of its routes through Madison, the capital
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 line through Sparta, Wis
consin, La Crosse, in the same State,
Winona, Owatonna aud New Ulm, in Min
nesota, and North westward far into Dako-
ta-here we have 625 miles more of road
Again coming to Chicago we see two lines
running Northwardly- along the lake
shore to Milwaukee. and thence to Fond du
Lac, and the other running more inland
through GAINESVILLE, Watertown, etc, also
10 Fond du Lac, thence North through
Oshkosh, De Pere, Green Bay and Esca-
naba, to Negannee, Isphemine and Mar
quette-heTe is another 440 miles of road.
Then we have n line from Chicago to Elgin,
Rockford and EreepOrt, another from Cl:n-
ton, Iowa to AnamOsa in the same State,
another from keuosha on Lake Michigan
20 Rockford, in Northern Illinois, and after
all longer lines We have many short spans
to traverse before we have found ont all Of
the CHICAGO AND NORTH w EsTERN RAIL-
WAY.
Is it 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 acknowledge that it is the
best.
The passengers to or from California,
Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, the Black Hills,
Minnesota, Manitoba, the East, West
North or South, should see that they are
furnihsed 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. Tie Herald