Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1903 — A Handsome Trade-Mark. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Handsome Trade-Mark.

Recently the editor of the leading advertising magasine of the country wrote to Mr. O. W. Ruggles, general passenger agent of the Michigan Central Railroad, asking him what he considered the best article ever written about the Michigan Central Railroad. Mr. Ruggles, without hesitation, mailed the editor of the magazine the following, written by Othello F. Andrews, and printed in the Chicago Evening Post June 27, 1903:

Of all the design* conceived to represent a railroad the symbol of the Michigan Central ia entitled to first rank. The jbeautifol figure r a p r e a e nting speed holding up Niagara Falls to the ayes of the World is art and business blended to a high degree. This road has two strong features, its route through the thickly populated and pretty part of Michigan and the world’s aquatlo wonder near the line’s eastern terminus.

Few railroads have been so fortunate in having such a subject as the latter to treat Niagara Falls, the most magnificent of all cntaracts, has been preempted by the Michigan Central road,- and the railway and the waterfall have become so closely linked that they ore considered parts of one another. The Michigan Central not only runs via Niagara Falls, but it runs in sight of them, by them, almost over them. In view of its advantages over other lines in its Niagara Falls route, it is not strange that the management of this road years ago placed the Falls upon its banner and adopted it as its mark to the world. The Michigan Central’s trnde-mark is indicative of the general artistic atmosphere that pervades everything in and about this road. Its line between Chicago and Detroit Is a continuous garden of flowers. If the goddess Flora were ever to assume the material one of her first moves should be a trip over the Michigan Central.