Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1903 — A Handsome Trade-Mark. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Handsome Trade-Mark.

Recently the editor of the leading adEertising magazine of the country wrote > Mr. O. W. Ruggles, general passenger •gent 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 P. Andrews, and printed in the Chicago Evening Post June 27, 1903:

-Of all the designs conceived to represent a railroad the symbol of the Michigan Central is entitled to first rank. The .beautiful. figure. , r e p r e s e nting speed holding up Niagara Falls to the eyes of the world is art and business blended to a high degree. This road has two strong features, its route through" the thickly populated nnd pretty part of Michigan and the world’s aquatic wonder near 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 cataracts, has been pre-empted by the Michigan Central road, and the railway and the waterfall have become so closely linked that they are 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 Sts advantages over other lines 'ln its Niagara Falls route, it is not strange that the management of this foad years ago placed the Falls upon its banner nnd adopted It as its mark to the world. The Michigan Central’s trade-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.