Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — A Wonderful Feature In Western Travel. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Feature In Western Travel.

Very remarkable and important is the fact that the bulk of railway travel between the Atlantic and Pacific States is principally .enjoyed by certain lines, because cf their superiority of equipment, track, road-bed, time schedule, and train service. The road that has received this preference from Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis to Council Bluffs, Omaha, Kansas* City, St. Joseph?Atchinson and Denver, and all points in Illinois, lowa, .Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado, is unquestionably, the Grand Burlington Route— Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad—the only line under one management from the first three cities nampd, through to Denver direct. The great regiments of the Grand Army of the Republic were carried in elegant style, and with perfect satisfaction, to and from Denver, by the Burlington Route, and now the Associated Press telegrams, and newspapers and newspaper correspondents gen erally tell us that two-thirds of the Knights Templar, journeying to San Francisco, have gone over this famous line, the New England commanderies specially chartering, and thus journeying from ocean to ocean in trains, that were sent from Chicago to Boston, of the Burlington’s own rolling stock, because of its superlative equipment, making it evident that while it is popular with all classes of travel, the ’route is given special preference by those choice in taste, desire and favor, -and thoroughly competent to discriminate between true worth, excellence and enterprise, and lack of |system, energy and progression. Possessing such features as owning and operating the longest, and yet most direct line to and through the most popular’ cities and grandest agricultural portions of the west; running trains over the solidest road-bed and a track laid with steel rails, and equipped with the latest and best appliances for safe, speedy and comfortable travel, and hauling the finest passenger, Pullman, parlor, dining and smoking cars, connecting in union depots; engaging polite, accommodating train service; making rapid transit, prompt and close connections, and the lowest possible rates— of transportation, are cogent reasons why the Grand Burlington Route should receive this partiality, and why it is preferred by, and is carrying the heaviest portion of. travel to and from the Pacific coast; and is known as the “finest equipped railroad on the continent;” ' The Burlington system consists of six grand divisions, designated the C'hicago, Galesburg, Eastern, Middle, West ern, St. Louis, and Kansas City divisions. T’hfese six main sections contain in all thirty subdivisions, which are mainly branches and feeders. The Company’s most important terminal marts in Illinois are Chicago, Peoria, Streator, Rockford, Freeport and Clinton; in lowa, Burlington, Des Moines, Keokux, Council Bluffs, Fontanelle,and several other lesser towns; in Missouri, St. Louis and Kansas City; in Kansas, Atchinson; in Nebraska, Omaha, Columbus, Central City, Rear-, ney Junction, and several other points, and in Colorado, Denver. The main cities, otherwise than terminal are Quincy, Rock Island, Mendota and Galesburg in Illinois; in Missouri, Hannibal, St. Joe; in lowa, Burlington and Keokuk, and in Nebraska, Lincoln, and other places along the line, making in all 1,000 in number, which have a population of about 2,500,000. If seeking farming lands, no finer dots the face of the earth than those traversed by the Burlington Route. Grass, trees, and the like, and the emblem .nt of the land, are bounteous rewards for the slight labor the tilling of the soil requires. The seasons are even and regular, and no severe winters prevail, and compel laborious efforts to ward oft’ and provide against their hardship. M If it is the game of the field, the forest, the stream, or the mountain, that you would slaughter, bear, in mind that no road has a territory more plentifully supplied than that traversed by the Burlington Route. If looking for the majesty of nature's grandeur, picturesque beauty and scenic sublimity, remember that the Burlington Route leads to their superlative center and eminence, the Rocky Mountains. Trains are so,arranged as to afford daylight rides through the most enjoyable scones, and elegant open observation ears are attached to express trains through the Royal Gorge and Black Canon. * • - “Through the Heart of the Continent,” “Summer in Northern lowa ; and Minnesota,T and “Landscape | Wonders ot, the Western World”, are three' yery interesting little works exquisitely illustrated, most charmingly written, and fascinating in description, the first ©f. which js largely his-

and graphically descriptive of the wonderful growth of Illinois, lowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado, showing also the advantages these States possess for the business man and home-seeker. The others exhibit in lively effort, and as near the real as word-painting can,; their attractions for those in search of health and pleasure resorts, and 1 nature’s beauties. ’