Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — The Shortest Route. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Shortest Route.

! Nearly every day you read in some newspaper that such and such a railroad has the shortest line from one Important city to another. 1 One railway company will advertise that It Is a “short line from Chicago to Omaha.” A competing line then positively states that It Is “a shorter line from Chica'go to Omaha than any other,” and now the Chicago, ‘Milwaukee * St. Paul Kallway Insists that it Is “the shortest line from Chicago to Omaha,” and proves It hy this map:

i The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Ballway Company also says that It Is the “best line to St. Paul and Minneapolis,” which Is a fact, with “electric lighted trains” and reading lamps In each berth, so that one can read all night long If he has a book and doesn’t want to sleep. It brags about the “finest dining cars in the world,” with the best of meals served on Imported china by the most expert and civil colored waiters. at 75 cents, while the lines east of Chicago charge a whole dollar. And—once more—the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Bailway opens up a new through Car line from Chicago to Denver, via Omaha and Lincoln, and it isn’t long before the whole world says to Itself that “shortest line from Chicago to Omaha,” that “best line/o St. Paul and Minneapolis” and that “new route to Denver” must be the only first-class railroad In the western part of the United States, and what the whole world says must be true. The address of the passenger agent "In Chicago is 207 Clark street, and everybody who wishes to travel over the best road In the West goes there to purchase tickets and secure sleeping car reservations. We oftener suspect a man of vice than of virtue.