The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-01

Sllgie Trip SALT pledSdIt dilu
speedy. How nan travellers real
lie. az they carefully place that print
ed strip Of pasteboard in their pocket.
the responsibility and vigilance exercis-
ed to keep inviolate that contract en-
tered into with him. To such perfection
has modern railway travel come. in
these fin de seicle days. that the tourist
at Chicago or st. Paul, Pacific-ward
bound. takes his seat or berth in the
ponderous overland express OF 1895. with
as much nonchalance and ease Of mind.
as he would were he meditating a horn
ing drive in Lincoln park. He Is assur-
ed, as he lies In his comfortable berth
at night, or sits before a Widespread
table in the modern diner that he is
speeding towards his destination at a
tbirty-mile rate through darkness ana
daylight alike, over plain, through val
ley or canyon. while his safety and
well-being Is watched over by upwards
of l.. 900 men. each trained To his spe-
cial duty.
Such Is the merest hin 81 the complex
mechanism Of a great transcontinental
railway system in the Northwest. which
is able to pick up a traveller at the axe
side city of Buffalo. and set him down
a few days later beside the tide-washed
shores of Puget sound. at Seattle. the
doorway To the great Pacific.
This last offspring OF American pluck
and genius, The youngest Of the trans
continental family, the Great Northern
Railway. has added another thew Of
Steel which kinds I'm rfnCa commercial
embrace the ~popuious East with their
brethren of the Golden Pacific. Not only
must We look to the material progress
If settlement and enterprise to which
this new railway system has opened the
way. but the lover Of nature, the
searcher after the beautiful. the sub
lime, and the awe-inspiring. can now
behold from his "A window what, a few
years ago. a only possible to the
hardy explorer. Today we travel In the
footsteps OF Lewis and Clarke, of Bon
neville and Wyeth. and see with our
own delighted eyes what they tried to
paint In words What man n gaze un-
moved at the limitless billowy plains of
the Dakotas. golden with the ripening
grain, or brown with lowing herds, al
the empurpled ether of M~ontana's
peaks, at the lovely reaches Of Idaho's
lakes and dells, at W~ashington's varied
charms Of landscape. and not feel his
breast swell with e~xultation. and
breathe again those words:
mis- is my Own my native land"
The Great Northern Railway ha:
reached across the vast expanse OF foul
great states. 70 the people of Washing
.SA, as a purely business proposition
me government spoon OF pap. I'm tn,
FORM or subsidies or land grants. Ia
never been asked by or offered to thi
MS youngest bidder for western bust
ness a record As unique as 1t * graft
lying. The Measure Of success it hai
won is directly traCeable tn plain bust
ness principles rs they apply to com
meFctai Transactions.
ihe men who conserve its interest
u the Puget Sound region need no In
reduction "a Seattle readers. p. +
sheioy. assistant general traffic manag
u' anu h < stevens. general agen'
VIII not b. found FAR behind the band
wagon In the business procession. r.
sfsaas Greeley's famous advice. "
SHOULD say: "(ra East. young man, vi
~ GREAT Northern Railway"