Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1882 — Deservedly Popular. [ARTICLE]

Deservedly Popular.

It is only a few days since the news flashed over the wires announcing the laying of the last rail on the Denver extension of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad and the reception it has met at the hands of the press and people seems a fair criterion of the immense popularity justly en. byed by this giant corporation. This wondrous popularity of the Great Burlington Route has been fairly earned and acquired and in the records of railway progress and improvement during the past fifteen years it stands at the head. Among the most valuable of modern appliances and comfortable devices to render life on the rail an enjoyable luxury a large number originanted or have been first in use at the 0., B, & Q. headquarters, the management having always exercised the most painstaking carefulness to guard even the minor details in all that could tend to make travel over the lines safe, swift and luxurious, the facilities provided representing all the latest developments of science and industry and the teachings of experience. To the tidy and clean «ixteen-wheel sleepers, the dining cars with tables groaning under loads nf every procurable delicacy, the parlor cars richly and tastefully furnished, have been added au elegant system of smoking cars for exclusive use of first-class passengers and the stato-room car, the most brilliant gem of them all, giving absolute privacy and special accommodations for ladies or parties traveling together; all of which combine into their construction eveiy point of detail and minutia calculated to increase the comfort of tne passenger and surround him with the luxuries of home life, The construction of the new Denver extension adds also to the record one of the most remarkable feats of railway building, a distance of 243 miles having been covered in 219 working days, from August to May, including of course, the winter months. The traveling public, prompt to recognize merit, are awaiting with impatience the day when the C. B. e & Q. coaches will- carry them through from the Lakes to the Rockies. *