Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-03-15
ROOSEVELT ADMIREs THE PIC
'~ TURES. @,
Applauds tho Union Pacific Enterprise
Its Souvenirs and World Map
Amaze the Vice President. s,g To-.

Its Souvenirs and World Map
Amaze the Vice President.
DR.. George l.. Miller, the Omaha
pioneer and the veteran editor, who
was the guest of Vice President
Roosevelt while he was en- route
across Nebraska, discussing the trip,
said: ''Tbe extraordinary interest
that the vice president of the United
States manifested in the Map of the
World, which the Passenger Depart
ment of the Union Pacific presented
to him, is readily explained. Tha:
map is the very largest thing in world
pictures, and appealed to Roosevelt
~: nothing else could. 1t presented Il
birdscye view of the sections where
today centers the interest Of the civ.
ilized world. Then, too, it was {.
pretty tribute he paid to The Over
land Route pictorial advertising
when he observed that the literature
issued by the Union Pacific embodies
all that is artistic in word and picture
painting.
Il was much amused at the sur
prise manifested by Colonel Roosc-
welt when he discovered that he
could stand on the rear of the fast
dying Overland Limited train and OBJ
serve the rear view without encoun-
tering single particle of dust This
was the first proposition of the kinI
he had ever encountered. True, he
had seen some eastern roadbeds sat-
urated with oil and rendered in u way
dustless, but here was n roadbed in
it, natural state, giving forth abso-
lutely no dust. He asked me a greu"
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granite gravel and the manner in
it's main line with the product.
"The Map of the World, the sou-
senir showing the various points OF
interest along The Overland Route
IL cOlors, and the instructive little
volume showing the fossil collections
and deposits Of Wyoming and other
handsome literature presented by the
representative of the Union Pacific
| Advertising Department to Colo"c;
Roosevelt on this occasion, he assured
me he would preserve with much care.
'''The advertising departments Of the
great western railroad systems arc
fast building up a distinct literature:
of their own. In an artistic sense.
these souvenirs and booklets ar.
auitc desirable. l may say that in
my collection made from all parts OF
the United States have nothing that
will compare with the matter pre-
scnted to me by the representatives
T.. the Union Pacific
'"rhesc were the words of Vice Pres
ident-elect Roosevelt in discussing
the maps and illustrated souvenirs
presented to him by n representative
OF the Union Pacific passenger de-
partment while he was en- route from
Denver to Omaha over 'The Overland
oRute.' Continuing, Vice President
Roosevelt said: These were superb
specimens of the landscape artists
skill and the writer's clever arrange
ment of stories, embodying in all that
i artistic in word picture and paint
,ng Wherever one travels, the fame
Of ":Thc Overland Route" goes. Ono
good thing l have observed about TIE
literature of the company is that j:
tells the truth. 1t advertises the
trains on the Union Pacific lines to
make certain time and certain con
nections, and when the traveller
starts on his journey he finds the
train service is just as stated Col
Onel Roosevelt was greatly interested
L: the Green river views and declared
the pictorial features of the famous
region wer true to life. Here is
mother thing continued the vice
president, where accuracy is appre
riated. OF course 1.-The Overland
Route" is probably better known than
any railroad line in the world, bat
TIE Union Pacific seems never at Il
loss in presenting wildly the mary
scenes and Incidents connected with
this great system, and indeed now
interviewer in the history of our
country. This map of the world. for
Instance, is simply marvellous. 1t j.
brought absolutely up to date, and
| its completeness is most amazing
| These pictorial souvenirs | believe ar:
worthy of IA place in any mans h
1rary."