The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-16
WHY GREATEST AND BRsT ,


We sec some envious mortals object to tn,
Chicago d North western Railway being called
the greatest and best line in the country. VIVA
means greatest? 10 it more length OF line
miles operated and business transported
What means best? Every one knows the reply
mat this line is greatest. few facts will de
monstrate. ltoperates nearly twenty -one hun
dred miles OF road, (2,078 to be sxact), anc
reaches nearly every important point in North
orn Illinois, in Wisconsin, in Northern Michi-
gan, IN Iowa, in Minnesota, and runs many
miles into Dakota. What other line begins to
traverse 30 many States J? None-Not one
A road 500 miles in length ia long one. A
thousand mules makes great line. What then
should be said OF one 2,100 miles long? Just
think OF 1t IL WAS laid eastward from New
York 1t 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 10 it not Then
Tor moment look at its business. II carries
millions (think OF what millious mesn) OF pas-
sengers 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 ono other kinds OF freight
that is grown or used or handled by the people
or the great North west through which it is the
great iron highway.
Take down your map and trace it's routes.
Fix your eye on Chicago as q starting point
California line until you reach the Missouri
river at Council Bluffs. opposite Omaba-here
is single run OF nearly 500 miles Back to |
Chicago again you look North vest and follow
another OF its routes through Madison, the Cap
ital OF Wisconsin, through the pine woods OF
that whole State and into Minnesota, and on
TO st, Paul and Minneapolis-this is four hun
dred miles more. Again looking from Chicago
you can trace . line through Sparta, Wisconsin.
La Crosse. In the same State, Wipopa Owa-
tonns and New Ulm, in Minnesota, and North
westward Tar into Dakota-here We have 625
miles more OF road. Again coming to Chicago
We see two lines running Northwardly-one
along the lakeshore to Milwaukee, and thence
10 Fond du Lac, and the other running more
inland, through GAINESVILLE, Wstertown etc.,
Also to Fond du Lac, thence north through Osh-
kosh DE Pere, Green Bay and Escanaba, to
Negaunee Isbpemlng and Marquette-here is
another 4i0 miles OF road. Then we have a
inc from Chicago to Elgin, Rockford and Free
port, another from Clinton, Iowa, to Anamoss,
n the same State, another from Kenosha on
Lake Michigan to Rockford, illinois, and after
Iii longer lines we have many short spans to
traverse before we have found out all OF the Chi
ago ~ Northwestern Railway.
Is 1t any wonder then that this line is called
he Great Western Trunk Line? So far ahead
,f ANYTHING else is it in the way OF road bed
,ars, locomotives and hotel coaches, that even
is competitors are obliged to acknowledge that
I is the best.
The passengers to or from California. Colo
ado, Utah, Nebraska. the Black Hills, Mlnne-
'ota. Manitoba, the East, West, North or South,
should see that they are furnished tickets by
bis great line. Forget not that this alone OF |
III the roads west or north OF Chicago, run the
vorld-renowned Pullman hotel car. No other
Western road has Pullman or any other form of |
lotel car, no matter what they claim--The
Herald.