D. Dalziel

“ In equipment the Chicago and Atlantic Railway is excelled by none and equaled by few roads in the world. Their superb sleeping, drawing-room and thoroughfare coaches are simply models of elegance and comfort and are lighted with the brilliant Pintsch gaslight. Clean bedding, thick hair mattresses, thorough ventilation and absolute safety, with polite conductors and porters accompanying each car to provide for the wants of passengers, are valuable facts not to be overlooked. ”

“ Other great features of the Michigan Central Railroad are that its through trains for New York and Boston run out of Chicago along the Michigan Lake front, within a stone's throw of the city's costliest mansions, through South Park and the magic city of Pullman, affording an extensive survey of this marvel of a marvelous age, and later passing over the new Cantilever Bridge in full view of Niagara Falls. ”

“ Cars with soft reclining chairs, Where we nestle free from cares; Cars no cynic can place fault on, Chicago, Kansas City, Alton. Spite of distance, time, or weather, See three cities link'd together.
CEILA— That is extremely true and very pretty. Moreover, it is a very noble employment, this acting in behalf of the foremost railway of the world. Still, we are not altogether happy. Since our queen banished Iolanthe, our life has not been a transcendent one.
LEILA— Ah, Iolanthe was a whole team, and, like the Alton Road, she was the only one in the crowd who carried a proper train. ”

“ The next thing was the morning sun and Niagara Falls. The run had been made from Chicago in the remarkable time of fifteen hours. [Pg 63]
"Oh, how good of you, Deacon Fitney," said little Adele a short while later, as, standing on the platform at Falls View Station, she gazed with rapture at the Falls in all their splendor. "How good of you to bring us to such a nice place, and by such a delightful road." ”

“ Luxurious surroundings on all sides. Ticket office opens down to the inlaid mosaic floor. Handsome divans for passengers engaged in the purchase of tickets. At the gate, waiting for passengers as they go through in swarms, is Willis, a handsome man, like all the other servants of this road, and also, like them, he is clothed in an expensive and becoming uniform.
WILLIS— (Sings.)
I often think it's comical, How nature always does incline To place the best of all its boys That's born into this world of mine In the road that only such employs— The great Chicago & Alton Line. ”

“ STREPHON—A fairy. I've no longer a reason to conceal the truth.
PHYLLIS— That would account for a good many things. Fairies nowadays are rather indiscreet. I suppose you are a fairy, too.
STREPHON—I'm half a fairy and half a mortal.
PHYLLIS—Not very substantial. But why didn't you tell me?
STREPHON— I thought I might get myself disliked. There's no use loving half a man.
PHYLLIS— Better that than to love a whole man, as they go nowadays. Forgive me.
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STREPHON— Think of the difficulties. My grandmother looks quite as young as my mother. So do all my aunts. ”

“ The Michigan Central Railroad has always held a foremost place among the lines between Chicago and the Atlantic seaboard, and the latest addition to their accommodations, in the shape of four new Dining Cars, will greatly strengthen its position.
These new cars are incomparable for beauty of design and selectness of adornments, all the elegancies of art having been exhausted to produce the most desirable effect. ”

“ Its luxuriantly finished and furnished palace sleeping cars and its more than luxurious drawing-room coaches are marvels of beauty and comfort. Its coaches are new and of the most perfect models that have been adopted by any company, and they are always kept sweet, clean and pure. Its dining cars are superb, and the meals and service provided in them are equal to that given by any first-class hotel in the country. ”

“ CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY
Is not only the best and most perfectly equipped railroad in the world, but it is also the most important as to the territory it traverses, the numerous business centres and pleasure resorts that it reaches, and the facilities it offers for pleasant, speedy, safe and comfortable transit for all classes of passengers. ”

“ The Falls never looked grander, and nature never smiled with more sweetness. The time passed only too quickly, and when the children stepped on the cars once more to return to Chicago, it was with a twinge of regret which was only offset by [Pg 64] the knowledge that they had another delightful trip in store for them on the Michigan Central road. ”

“ I am sure I never intended that she should go and live under a culvert beneath the bank of an Iowa railway.
LEILA— It must be damp there, and her chest was always delicate.
QUEEN— Yes. An Iowa railway is hardly the place to send a delicate chest. Even an iron-bound trunk has no show on any other line than the Chicago & Alton. ”

“ Scene.—A fairy glade on the Chicago & Alton Railway, at Holy Cross, Illinois. The country bears evidence of the utmost prosperity. It is early in June, yet the fields for miles in every direction are waving with already ripened grain that is going to take first prize at the next National Exhibition. The ensuing scene occurs in the brief interval allowed for purposes of safety between the trains on this road. ”

“ CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
The two cities above named are the great commercial centres of the United States, the former containing in the vicinity of 650,000 inhabitants, and the latter about 1,500,000. The number of people actually in Chicago at any one time would doubtless range far above these figures, as its floating or transient population is enormous, running up into figures that can hardly be credited. ”

“ It caters alike to the needs, tastes and abilities of the millionaire merchant prince; to the farmer, with his plain and simple wants; and to the economical and necessitous; and gives to each the full value of all he pays for. ”

“ She wont believe my statement, and declares we must be parted, Although I'm just as true as an Alton train when started; And if she gets another hub, a brakeman, broken-hearted, I shall be, taradiddle dee, taradiddle dee.
QUEEN—
You cruel and heartless counselor to part them from each other; You've done him an injustice, for this lady is his mother.
COUNSELOR—
That yarn requires obesity its thinness well to cover ”

“ Between CHICAGO and BUFFALO, through Union Depots, for all connections.
Its equipment is first-class in every respect—such as perfect Road-Bed, Iron and Stone Bridges, Westinghouse Automatic Safety Brakes, Miller Platform Coupler and Buffer, Magnificent Parlor Coaches for Day Travel, Elegant Day Coaches, and the Palace Sleeping Coaches. Well, words are inadequate to express their Durability and Splendor. They are simply Superb. These Coaches are run daily, through, between Chicago, New York and Boston, without change. ”

“ ONLY ROUTE BETWEEN CHICAGO and the EAST
THAT IS TOTALLY DEVOID OF TRANSFERS BY FERRY BOATS.
And the traveling public should certainly appreciate this great advantage over all other lines, as transfers by ferries are very tedious and annoying to the traveler who is anxious to reach the objective point without delay. Further comments are unnecessary.
All Agents sell Tickets via this popular line, and when passengers ask for them over the "LAKE SHORE," they smile and say, "You are on the right track," and they know. ”

“ With Niagara Falls and the Cantilever bridge the Michigan Central people are able to show their passengers the greatest work of nature and of man to be found in the country."
From the bridge the train glided along to Niagara Falls station, on the American side. ”

“ All the leading Merchants and Railroads in Chicago indorse the SATURDAY EVENING HERALD, by constantly making use of its advertising columns. It is read by more people who have the means and the inclination to travel than any other weekly paper published in the West. ”

“ Clinton, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Webster City, Algona, Tama and Council Bluffs, Iowa, are a few of its hundreds of prominent local stations. It reaches most of the pleasant summer resorts of Wisconsin and Minnesota, and is the road to take for the health and scenic resorts of the Rocky Mountains, the National Yellowstone Park, and nearly all of the notable Western and Northwest resorts that are accessible by rail.
It connects in Union Depots with the Union Pacific Railway at Council Bluffs, and at St. ”

“ Trevellyan, a thoroughly well-known and highly respected stock broker of the City of Chicago. Mr. Trevellyan was a hardworking man, and his various affairs did not give him much opportunity of absenting himself from his business. But to-day had been laid out as a holiday for the babies, and Papa Trevellyan had made up his mind to take part in it.
After a good deal of family discussion [these things generally involve more or less of that sort of thing] it was finally decided to make a trip to Niagara Falls and back. So a party was made up which was to consist of Mr. and Mrs. ”

“ Paul with the Northern Pacific St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba, and with all roads diverging from that point.
You can procure tickets over this route from nearly every coupon ticket agent in the country. ”