The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-12-12
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WHY GREATEsT AND BEST :

We see some enviOus mortals object to the Chi
cago Il North Western Railway being called tn
greatest and best line In the country. Whatmean
grestest7 Is II more length Of line, miles operat
ed and business transportedY What means best
Every one knows the reply. Thatthis line lsg great
est, few facts will demonstrate. II operates
nearly twenty-one hundred miles Of road (2,O78 L
be exaCt) and reaches nearly every impOrtan
point In Northern Illinois, In Wisconsin, in North
ern Michigan, in Iowa, In Minnesota and runI
many miles into Dakota. What other lines beglnt
to traverse 50 many States None-not one.
A road 500 miles In length Is a long one. A
thousand miles makes a great line. What, then
should be said Of one 2 100 miles long2 Just thlnk
ofitif twas laid eastward fIomNew York itwould
reach more than two thirds OF the way across the
Atlantic or from the pine clad hills Of Maine
10 the sunny shores Of the Gulf of Mexico. Great,
is 1t mott Then for moment look atits business
1t carries millions 0hink 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, 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 II is the great
iron highway,
Take down your map and trace Its routes. Fix
you eye on Chicago as a starting point. Westward
In nearly an air line you will trace Its California
line until you reach tho Missouri river at Council
Bluffs, opposite 0maha-here is a single run Of
nearly 800 miles. Back to Chicago again you look
Northwest and follow another of its routes thro'
tha tto1 81
pine woods Of that whole State and into Mlnneso.
Ia, and on to st. Paul and Minnespolis-thls Is 400
miles more. Again looking from Chicago you
trace line through Sparta, Wisconsin, La Crosse
In the same State, Winona, owatonna and New
Ulm in Minnesota, and Northwestward far into
DakotB-here we have 625 miles more of road,
Again coming to Chicago we see two lines run.
ing Northwardly-one along the lake shore to
Milwaukee, and thence 10 Fond du Lac, and the
other running more inland, through Janesvllle,
Watertown, ETC. also to Fond du lac, thence
North through Oshkosh, De Pere, Green Bay ard
Escanaba, to Negaunee, Isphening and Marquette
here is another 44O miles Of road. Then we have
a line from Chicago to Egn, Rockford and Free
port another from Clinton Iowa, 10 ABamosa in
the same State, another from Kenosha on Lake
to Rockford, in Northern Illinois, and
after all longer lines we have many short spans to
traverse before we have found all Of the Chicago&
Northwestern Railway,
Is It any wonder then that this line Is called the
great Western trunk line2 So far ahead of any
thing Is 1t in the way of road bed, cars, locomo.
tlves and hotel coaches, that even It's competitors
are obliged to acknowledge that 1t is the best.
The passengers to or from California, Colorado |
Utah, Nebraska, the Black Hills, Minnesota Man |
Itobs 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 reads west or
north OF Chicago run the worldrenowned Pull. |
man hotel car No other western road has Pull |
man or any other form OF hotel car, no matter
what they claim.-The Herald.