What Is A Trunk Line?

lhe readers of the newspapers of tho day constantly see mention made of Trunk Linea in r'ailoads, bat comparatively few fully underetaud what is inteiided by the designation. Some three or four railroad lines running westward from the Atlantic seaboard, are sometimos not wrongly oalled Trunk Lines, as they iorm the main arteries of traffic toward the west. If any railroad in the country deserves or is cntitled to the name of a grand Trunk Line it is the Chicago & Noeth-Westkbn Railway. Tho company operating this great line now Controls more miles of railway than any other in America, if not in the world. It ia by all odds the most important line of railroad of any counected with Chicago. No other road running out of Chicago carries anything like as many passengers or hauls anything like the volume of freight that is truusported over this road. It alone runs in and out of Chicago every day in the year, nearly as many passenger trains as all the other Chicago roads put together. As it is with passenger trains so it is with freight - it not unfrequently brings into Chicago fifteen hundied loaded freight cars in a single day, and ii it does not bring in a thousand cars its managers think it is doing poorly. ï'orty to fifty passenger trains daily, leave and arrive at lts depot at Chicago. Of suburban passengers it carries more than all the other roads that run to or from Chicago. These are faets that can be established by any one wishiug to do so. No road but the very bett could do the business this great line does. lts track is of the heaviest steel rail, and is kept in constant repair by the constant vigilance of an army of, track men, and is patrolled day and night the year through, for the doublé purpose of keepïug every thing connected with it in perfect coudition, and for the entire safety of its patrons who are travehng over it. No road any ivftere can show a superior track, finer coaches, stronger, swifter or better locomotiva enginea ; and no other roads west of Chicago have ever attempted to approach it in its equipment of Pullman Hotel and Sleeping Coaches. It alone, of all fhe western roads has the celebrated Hotel cara, and on this line only can the traveler between Chicago and the Missouri river procure the comforts and luxuries that these cars alone can furuish. Other liues may talk of Dining cars, and sixteen-wheel coa-hea, but not one of them can offer you a Pullman or any other torm of Hotel car. These cars combine great luxury witli the greatest obtainablo comfort, and at uo increase in exponse over the corainon, old fashionod and ordinary sleening car. The marvel of those that travel on them is to know how the company can afford to run them and charge uo more for berths than is charged in the old fashioned sleeper. The answer is found in the great volume ot travel this road ís carrying. The thousands flock to its lines where the hundreds seek its competitora. We are sure that no one who has once seen these cars would ever use any other lf Uaveling in the direction they run. They are not for the exclusive use oí the nch, but are just as comfortable and elegant for the poorer traveler - costing to occupy these cars, no more thau does the occupancy of the old fashioned sleeper, no one ueed for fear of expense, be prevented from using them. They have become "the rage," so to speak, with the Oalifornians, and lmvo attracted the majority of that class ot travel. If you are about to travel east or west between Chicago and Counsii Bluffs, Omaha, Denver, or San Francisco, it will pay you to see that you gat your tickets by the Chicago & Noeth-Westekn Railway. At some iuture time we may give you furthor ideas about this great road. - The Democrat.