Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-12-01
Ideal Transportation System Of
Our Country.
THE BURLINGTON COMING WEST.
Through Trains from ChicsgO TO
Portland, Oregon.
AN AMERICAN RAILWAY SYSTEM.

AN AMERICAN RAILWAY SYSTEM.
In travelling over nearly 6,OOO miles
oy rail the past sixty days, over about
''h different systems of railway, We
often ask ourselves, what is the idea
American railway? OF course, no rail.
way is a great American railway that
does not enter Chicago, the great throb.
bing dynamic commercial center of the
new world. No system is truly Ameri-
can that does not spread itself pretty
well over the ten millions of population
In the great Mississippi valley, connect.
ing in one network its great states and
Important cities. An American system
must also send several arms across the
PraiIie states to the Rocky mountains.
An ideal American system should
possess these great essentials named
but should also pierce through the
deserts beyond the Rockies and tap the
boundless wealth and undeveloped re-
sources of mine and forest where the
Oregon and Washington slopes touch
the Pacific. We cannot reckon the
government aided Pacific railways as
Q igible to enter the lists as compt titors
for the high honor of being the ideal
American system. They did not grow
up with the people and the country,
but were rather forced artificial
growths, to hasten the develop ment of
the new west. Only great railway
that has been distinctively the result of
individual enterprise, growth and ex-
tension, along the normal lines of de-
velopment from small beginnings into
great modern transportation institu-
tion, n,-such system alone is eligible TO
be called the ideal American railway.
Examination of maps Of our country
and the experience OF many, founded
on extensive travels, readily awards
the honor of this title TO the Burlng.
ton system, known as the G. b. q O
Railroad company. Six years ago the
Burlington extended its lines 10 st.
Paul and Minneapolis with w. J. T..
Kenyon in charge Of its passenger
traffic. BY thoroughly modern and
American methods and by always plac-
ing the service and safety Of the public
first. Mr., Kenyon has In few years,
against ten competing lines, built up q
splendid business, Both day and night
trains run through from st. Paul and
Minneapolis TO Chicago In little over
twelve hours, with every modern com
fort aud convenience. ~. Louis, Kan
sas City, Omaha, Denver, Des MolDes,
DeadwOOd aud Lincoln are also con-
neeted. The Burllngton's fast trains
run oyer forty miles an hour with every
comfort aud oODyenisnee, Employes,
even 10 sleeping cat porters, are trained
aud disciplined 10 be thoroughly in'
tslligeRt, courteous, kind aud polite
They are beautifully uniformed ana
uniformly painslaking, treating ell
alike, rich aud pooE young end old,
lsborsrs wife or milllonairss daughter
such a system with such safety renders
travel . pleasure " ihs mosi limld ana
a satisfaction " the espsfspend'
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