Deservedly Popular

It is only a few days siüce the news flashed over the wires announcing the laying of the last rail on the Denver extensión of the Chicago, Burlinjton and Quincy Railroad and the reception it has met at the hands of press and people seems & fair criterion of the immense popuianty justly enjoyed by this giant Corporation. This wonderous popularity of the Great Burlington Route has been fairly earned and acquired and in the resords of raüway progrese and ïmprovement duriug the past fifteen years it etands at the head. Among the most valuable of modern appliances and coinfortable devices to reuder the life on the rail an enjoyable luxury a large number originated or have been flrst in use at the C. B. & Q. headquarters, the management havingalways exercised the painstaking curöfulness to guard even the minoi details in all that could tcnd to make traTel over the lines safe, swiftand luxurious, the facilities provided representing all the latest developmentj of gcience and industry and th teacuings of experience. To the tidy and clean sixteeu wheel gleepers, tlie diningcais with tables groaning uuder loads of every procurable delicacy, the parlor cars richly and tastefuily furnished, have been added an elegant system of smoking cars for exclusive une of ürst-classpasseDgersand the statsroom car, the most brilliant gem of tbeui all, giving absolute privicy and spesial accomraodatioDS for ladies or parties traveling togolher ; all of which combine into their constructiou every point of detail aud minutia calculated to increase the comfort of the passenger and surround him with the luxuries ot kome life. The coustruction of the new Denver extensión adds also to the-record ona of the most remaikable feats of railway building, a distance of 243 miles havine been covered in 219 working days, froim Angustto May; including, of course, the winter monlhs. The traveling public, prompt to recog nize ment, are awaitiug with impatience the day wheu C. B.&Q. coaches will carry them through from tlie Lakcs to the Rockies.