Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-11-15
WAY Greatest and BesIt

We see some envious mortals object 20 the
Chicago 4 Northwestern railway being called
the greatest and best line in the country.
What means greatest? Is it more length OF
line. miles operated and business transport
ed /: What means best : Every one knows
the reply. That this line is greatest, a few
facts will demonstrate. 1t operates nearly
twenty-one hundred miles of road (2,0Ie to
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 9TH
er line begins to traverse SO many States ?
None-Not one.
A road 800 miles in length is long one.
A thousand miles makes great line. What,
then. should by said of one ,, 100 miles longI
Just think of tiff 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 it not? Then for a moment look at its
business. 1t carries millions (think OF what
millions mean of passengers year, to say
nothing of the silver and iron, and lead, and
lumber and cattle and hogs, and thousands
on thousands of car loads of wheat, aud 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 1t is the great IRON
highway.
Take 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
Missouri river at Council Bluffs. opposite
| Omaha-here is a single run of nearly 800
miles Back to Chicago again you look
Northwest, 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
| NIinneapolis-this is 400 miles more. Again
| looking from Chicago you can trace a line
| through Sparta, Wisconsin, La Crosse, IN the
! same State, Winona, Owatonna and New Olm,
| in Minnesota, and North-westwArd far into
| Dakota-here we have G2j 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 to
| Fond du Lac, thence North through Osh-
| kosh De Pere, Green Bay and Escanaba, to
| Negnunee, lspheming and Marquette-hert
| is another 40 miles of road Then We have a
line from Chicago to Elgin, Rockford and
| Freeport another from Clinton, Iowa, &c
Anamosa in the same State another from
| henOSha on Lake 1lChlBhh ~ i'O'A''' a.
Northern Illinois, and after all 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 il
called the great Western Trunk Line ! 81
far ahead of anything else is it in the way o
road bed. cars, locomotives and hotel coaches
that even its competitors are obliged to ac
knowledge that it is the best
The passengers to or from California, Col
orado, Utah. Nebraska, the Black Hills, Min
nesota. Manitoba, the East, West, North o
South. should see that they are furnishsl
tickets by this grent line, Forget not tina
this alone of MI the roads west or north o
| Chicago. run The world-renowned Pullman
hotel car. No other western road has Pull
ter what they claim. The Herald