Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1888 — It Leads All Others. [ARTICLE]

It Leads All Others.

It cannot truthfully be denied that the Burlington Route, C., B. & Q. R. R., is doing an extensive business, both passenger and freight. Of the first-named branch of its service it is estimated that from June 16 to 19. the period of the National Republican Convention excursion rates, over 1-000 strangers came to Chicago over the Burlington. This was exclusive of suburban passengers and mostly in addition to its heavy regular passenger traffic. In receipts of live stock the Union Stock Yards reports show the Burlington to be far in the lead. The average number of cars brought in by it during the first six months of the years 1886, 1887 and 1888, is 26,140; and the number for the first half of the year 1888 was 24,425, or but little below the average. The latter figure also represents about 24 per cent, of the total number of cars, 102,413, brought to the yards for the last half year, being more than six per cent in excess of the receipts by any other road.