[Image for Congdon Brake Shoe Co]Room 19, Commercial Bank Building,COR. DEARBORN AND MONROE STS.GEO. M. SARGENT, Sec'y.WORKS, Cor. 59th and Wallace Sts. WM. D. ROWLEY, Manager.Record of Test on Chair Car 102, Chicago & Alton R. R. Co."The wear of your four Congdon Shoes on a mileage of 7,824 miles was 15 pounds. Four common shoes show wear of 51 pounds."The above shows a saving of over 70 per cent. in favor of Congdon Shoes, or, number of miles run to each pound of Congdon Shoe worn off, 521.6, and number of miles run to each pound of common worn off, 153.4.
SPRAGUE, SMITH & CO.,
POLISHED PLATE GLASS,
FRENCH AND AMERICAN WINDOW GLASS,
French and German Mirror Plates; Colored, Cut and Enameled Glass
OF ALL KINDS.
Manufacturers of Pier and Mantel Mirrors,
205 RANDOLPH ST., CHICAGO.
RATES: $2.00 and $2.50 PER DAY.
THE
Commercial Hotel,
N. W. CORNER LAKE AND DEARBORN STS.,
Chicago.
C. W. DABB & CO.,Proprietors.CHAS. W. DABB,Manager.(Formerly of the Palmer House.)
F. M. ATKINSON, President.C. H. FERRY, Treasurer.
CHICAGO TYRE and SPRING WORKS,
Sole Manufacturers in the West of
Cast Steel Car Springs
—AND—
Locomotive and Car Wheel Tyres.
We manufacture Springs for Passenger, Freight, Baggage and Express Cars of every description, and Locomotive and Tender Springs to specification. We use only the
—BEST OBTAINABLE CAST STEEL,—
of uniform quality, thoroughlyTESTevery Spring before shipment, and fullyGUARANTEEthe same for the purpose intended. Capacity, twenty-five tons daily.
We roll tyres, both crucible and Siemen's Martin, from blooms especially made for us in England. They are rolled true to specification, and we give the most satisfactory assurances as to wear and mileage. Present capacity, twenty Locomotive Tyres daily. We fill all orders promptly.
WORKS, MELROSE, ILL.CHICAGO OFFICE, 94 WASHINGTON ST.
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. The traffic passing between these two cities daily is very large, when one considers that they are within a fraction of 1,000 miles apart. Boston also has a large traffic with Chicago, and, to give an idea of the accommodations necessary to provide for the passenger business alone between the three cities, we may state that the
MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD
which is the principal thoroughfare between the cities named, runs five express trains daily—three on Sundays—made up of fine new day coaches, smoking cars, drawing-room cars, palatial sleeping cars.
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. That the end has been gained goes without saying, and they stand to-day as far in advance of other Dining Cars as the first Dining Cars were in advance of the lunch counters at wayside stations.
Thecuisineis quite on a par with the finish of the cars, and all that may minister to the nourishment of the body or tickle the palate of the most discriminating epicures will be found therein.
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. It is for this latter reason known to all travelers as "The Niagara Falls Route."
GEO. KELLER,21 ILLINOIS ST., CHICAGO, ILL.MANUFACTURER OFRAILROADBulletin BoardsANDFRAMES OF EVERY DESCRIPTIONFOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES.SAMPLES WILL BE FURNISHED ON APPLICATION.
GEO. KELLER,
21 ILLINOIS ST., CHICAGO, ILL.
MANUFACTURER OF
RAILROAD
Bulletin Boards
AND
FRAMES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES.
SAMPLES WILL BE FURNISHED ON APPLICATION.
E. W. BLATCHFORD & CO.
CHICAGO, ILL.
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
Lead Pipe.Solder.Sheet Lead.Antimony.Bar Lead.Spelter.Block Tin Pipe.Block Tin.LINSEED OIL.
A TRIP TO NIAGARA FALLS.
"Come, Adele; come. Nellie; hurry up. Deacon Fitney will be here directly and the train starts directly."
The voice was that of Mr. 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. Trevellyan, the two children and a good-hearted Deacon Fitney, who was well acquainted with the way to "do" the Falls properly.
The day was, as I have just said, a bright one, even for the month of June, and both Adele and Nellie, in anticipation of a pleasant time, were not long in putting on their things and repairing to the parlor.
It was well they hurried. There was papa, valise in hand, ready to start; mamma, too; and nothing seemed to be wanting but the presence of Deacon Fitney, who had gone off to secure the railway tickets, and who promised toreturn at once with a carriage and accompany the whole party to the train. The Deacon was not long in coming back. He was a good man in his way, was the Deacon. He had only one fault—he was unreasonably fond of Buttons! He adorned his apparel with more buttons than even the law requires, and he wore a nice gold-headed button on his neatly-tied satin scarf. Nobody could ever find out what prompted this peculiarity, but then nobody seemed to care very much. However, as I said before, the Deacon came back very quickly and helped get things in the carriage.
"By the way, Deacon," said Mr. Trevellyan, "what time do we start and which way do we go? You know I have left everything of that kind to you."
"Four-fifteen," said the Deacon, in a cheerful sort of way, "and by the Michigan Central Railroad. It is the only way to go. But never mind about the advantages to be gained by going over this remarkable route. I will tell you all about it when we get on the train."
And so they bundled into the carriage, and within a few minutes the entire party was seated in one of the magnificent palace cars which are attached to the Michigan Central Limited Express.
"All aboard!" shouted the conductor. "We're off," smiled the Deacon. The big clock in the depot struck the quarter after four, and the magnificent train, composed of five sleepers, three coaches, a palace dining car and a couple of baggage cars, slowly pulled out of the station.
Adele and Nellie glued their noses to the window, and their delight as they whizzed through the beautiful suburbs of South Chicago seemed unbounded. With Lake Michigan, tranquil and glittering with the rays of a summer sun, on one side, and a succession of lovely suburban residences on the other, the sight was a most lovely one. A few minutes later the train was flying through green fields and beautiful woods.
"Here, children," suddenly cried the Deacon from the other side of the car, "come quick and see the magic city of Pullman." In a minute Adele was on one of the Deacon's knees and Nellie on the other, and the train passed rapidly by the most wonderful evidence of modern enterprise.
"Three years ago," said the Deacon, in answer to an enquiring look of admiration in the children's eyes, "the ground on which stands this most beautiful city, which is without doubt the model city of the world, was nothing but a swamp. See what it is now. Some day, when we get back home, I will bring you here and let you learn more closely what the creator of the beautiful place which bears the name of Pullman has done for his country."
A minute later the train flew past Kensington, and then fairly started on its iron way for its first stopping place, Michigan City, better known as the City of Sand. Then came Niles, with it wonderful bridge and its fairy valley. Then Kalamazoo, the biggest village in the world and the flower bed of creation. Then Marshall, Battle Creek and, Jackson, the latter place the centre of railway industry of the beautiful State of Michigan. Then Ann Arbor, where is situated the University of the State of Michigan, and then, last but not least, Detroit.
By this time, of course, the babies had been tucked in bed. The Deacon had taken them into the dining car and feasted them with all the inexhaustible luxuries for which these cars on the Michigan Central R. R. are so famous.
Then, the colored porter having made up their beds, they were soon fast asleep and dreaming of the treat in store for the morrow.
The Deacon, however, was determined at least that his grown-up friends should lose none of the beauties of the trip, and so he insisted that Mr. and Mrs. Trevellyan should remain up until they had crossed the famous Detroit River. The night was a beautiful one, and they were amply rewarded by witnessing one of the most thoroughly picturesque pieces of scenery in the world. The entire train was placed on one of the immense ferry steamers, and the landing shortly afterwards made at Windsor, a picturesque and quaint little town on the Canadian side of the river. At this point commences the Canada Southern Division of the Michigan Central Railroad, famous alike for the magnificence of its equipment and smoothness of track. Here our friends, so to speak, turned in, and it was only a few minutes before every one on board was fast asleep.
The next thing was the morning sun and Niagara Falls. The run had been made from Chicago in the remarkable time of fifteen hours.
"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."
And little Adele had reason to so express herself, for, standing where she was, at Falls View Station, she was able to command the most awe-inspiring and lovely view of the Falls to be obtained anywhere.
"I am glad you like it," said the Deacon, with a smile; "but you must not credit me with too much goodness, for I could hardly have brought you by any other way. The Michigan Central road is the only direct road running to the Falls, and you could hardly expect that I could take you there by any line which is not entirely the best."
Mr. and Mrs. Trevellyan heartily joined Adele in her expressions of thanks to the Deacon, and more than endorsed every word he had said in praise of the wonderful Michigan Central Limited Express.
The conductor then called "all aboard," and the train again started on its way, and very shortly crossed the Niagara River over the magnificent steel Cantilever bridge which the Michigan Central people have just erected at this point.
"This is the great Cantilever bridge you have heard so much about," said the Deacon to little May. "It is the greatest scientific engineering effort of the age, and it is well worth visiting Niagara, if only to see it. 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. Here our little party alighted, and, after driving about the village, they soon found themselves in the comfortable parlors of the Clifton House, enjoying one of Mr. George Colburn's justly famous repasts.
Then they spent the day at the Falls—a day of merry sunshine and happiness. 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 bythe knowledge that they had another delightful trip in store for them on the Michigan Central road.
Now Adele has the following time table hung up among her pictures on the wall in her bed room. She says it serves to remind her of one of the happiest days of her life. Above it, in a baby's handwriting, she has scrawled:
"THE ONLY WAY TO GO EAST FROM CHICAGO IS BY THEMICHIGAN CENTRAL R. R."
TrainNo. 10.—Fast New York Express,—Leaves Chicagoevery dayat 4:30P. M., and consists of one First-Class Smoking Car, one First-Class Day Coach, oneDining CarandThree Palace Sleeping Cars, running on the following time:
* Does not arrive on Sunday. ! Does not arrive on Monday.
This train, leaving Chicago one hour later than heretofore, makes a much surer connection with Western lines.
The Smoking Car, Day Coach and one Sleeping Car run through to Buffalo via M. C.; one Sleeping Car runs through to Toronto via M. C. and Credit Valley Railways; one Sleeping Car runs through to New York via M. C. and N. Y. C. The Dining Car serves dinner out of Chicago at 5 o'clock; train arrives in Buffalo in good season for breakfast.
This train has attached at Detroit a Through Sleeping Car from St. Louis to New York, via W., St. L. & P., M. C. and N. Y. C., that makes quicker through time than any other line; and also a Sleeping Car from Detroit to Syracuse that is placed in Detroit depot about 9P. M.Passengers can enter their berths any time after that hour.
Connects with Grand Trunk trains in Detroit.
Connection with Pullman Car for New York and Philadelphia, via Erie, leaving Buffalo at 9:15A. M., and also with Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia, leaving at 8:20A. M.
Connects at Albany with through sleeper for Boston, via B. & A., leaving at 8:40P. M.
No second-class passengers are carried on this train.
NOTE.—No Extra Charge Is Made on Michigan Central Fast Express.
Adele's advice is very excellent. She says the Michigan Central is the best road in the United States, and she knows what she is talking about.
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Ansonia Clock Co.
MANUFACTURERS
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OFFICES:
64 WASHINGTON STREET,
CHICAGO
The United States Rolling Stock Company
Offers for Lease to
Railroads, Freight Lines, Mining Companies and others
Locomotive Engines,Refrigerator Cars,Box, Stock,Gondola, Dumpand Flat Cars,
And is prepared to build for Lease and on Contract for cash, or under the CAR TRUST SYSTEM, such Rolling Stock as may be required.
WORKS:
HEGEWISCH, ILL.Capacity, Twenty Cars per Day.URBAN, OHIO.Capacity, Ten Cars per Day.—.—General Offices,- - -35 Broadway, New York.Chicago Offices,Calumet Building, 189 La Salle Street.—.—A. HEGEWISCH, President,|C. BENN, Treasurer,THOS. F. B. PARKER, Secretary,|W. H. CHADDOCK, General Agent,J. H. HOCART, Ass't Treasurer,|J. C. FORTINER, Sup't of Acc'ts,NEW YORK.CHICAGO.
JOHN L. STAGG, Sup't of Shops.
MARSHALL FIELD & Co
WHOLESALE,RETAIL,Madison and Market Sts.State and Washington Sts.CHICAGO.
Dry Goods, Cloaks, Costumes, Shawls,Furs, Woolens, Notions,
Men's, Women's and Children's
Furnishing Goods, Carpetings,Curtain Materials,Tapestries, Furniture Coverings,
And goods for
"Home Art Decorations."
Largest and Most Complete Lines.
We are Sole Agents for United States for the
Celebrated "ALEXANDRE" Kid Gloves
THE BEST KID GLOVE MADE.
And we make a Specialty of producing private designs in
Carpets, Rugs & Upholstering Goods,
To correspond with architectural features of rooms, and of
Furnishing Churches, Theatres,Hotels and Homes.
CHICAGO VISITORS CORDIALLY INVITED TO CALL.
THE MERIDEN SILVER PLATE CO.
No. 64 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill.
MANUFACTURERS OF THE
FINEST QUALITY QUADRUPLE PLATED WARE
SPECIAL AND RICH DESIGNS IN
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Race Brothers Oyster House, 114 Madison Street, Chicago. ESTABLISHED 1870.
The largest, most complete, and only Strictly First-Class Gentlemen's and Ladies' Oyster House west of New York City.
STEAKS and CHOPS added to Bill of Fare after January first.
A. BELFORD (of Belford, Clarke & Co.), President.C. SLEMIN, Jr. (of Belford, Clarke & Co.), Sec. and Treas.M. A. DONOHUE (of Donohue & Henneberry).R. NEVERS, Jr.,Superintendent.
— THE —
Central Lithographing and Engraving Co.
315 to 321 Wabash Avenue,
CHICAGO.
Lithographing,
WOOD ENGRAVING,
Printing, Binding and Electrotyping.
ENTIRE NEW OFFICE.
ENTIRE NEW OFFICE.
EVERY BRANCH OF THE BUSINESS UNDER ONE ROOF.
Anything, from a Visiting Card to the Finest Chromo Work.
Railroad and Show Printing
A SPECIALTY.
SEND FOR ESTIMATES.
Fine Art Work. A Specialty. The Lakeside press. R. R. Donnelley & Sons, (LATE DONNELLEY GASBETTE & LOYD.) Printers. 140-146 Monroe St. CHICAGO, TELEPHONE No. 610. TAKE ELEVATOR.
They would invite the special attention of Railroad Corporations, Manufacturers, Merchants, and Publishers to their Fine Illustrated Work, pronounced unequalled by the press of Europe and America.
THE BEST EQUIPPED RAILROAD IN THE WORLD.
Without exaggerating, and keeping close within the narrow limits of fact, it may be asserted without fear of truthful contradiction, that the
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. 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. 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.
WHERE IS IT?WHAT IS IT?Starting from Chicago and having various main lines running west, northwest and north, it covers about all that is desirable in Northern Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, the Upper Michigan Peninsula, Minnesota and Central and Southeastern Dakota and Northeastern Nebraska.It is eminentlytherailroad of the Northwest, and from its commanding location it controls the traffic of all of the territory it traverses.Over 5,000 miles of the best built and best maintained railroad there is in the country. It is equal in every respect to any road in the world, and is believed to be better than any of its competitors. Its lines are built of heavy steel rail; its bridges are of steel, iron and stone, and all its appointments are as good as money can buy.
COLORADO & CALIFORNIA.
This Company's line between Chicago and Council Bluffs (Omaha)is shorterthan any other between these points, and was the pioneer in forming connection with the Trans-Continental Union and Central Pacific Railroads. Nearly all experienced overland travelers seek this line, because it is known to be the best, shortest, most comfortable, and in every way the most desirable. To seek other more circuitous and inferior routes is accepted as an evidence of inexperience or want of information.
If you are destined to or from Colorado, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington Territory, China, Japan, the Sandwich Islands, New Zealand or Australia, you should, in making the trip between Chicago and Council Bluffs (Omaha), in either direction, see that your tickets read over this great road.
ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS & WINNIPEG.
This road, "St. Paul Line," is the short and desirable route between Chicago and Madison, St. Paul and Minneapolis; Helena, Montana; Portland, Oregon, and points on the Northwest Pacific coast, and the best to travel over if you are destined to or from Chicago and any point north or northwest of St. Paul. Winona and Mankato, Minn.; Frankfort, Huron, Pierre, Aberdeen, Columbia and Watertown, Dakota; Milwaukee, Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Watertown and Sheboygan, Wis.; Freeport, Elgin, Dixon and Fulton, Ill.; 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. 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. When buying your tickets read them carefully and be sure that at least one coupon reads over theChicago & North-Western Ry. Ask your nearest coupon ticket agent for one of its large maps; they are FREE, and will show you all of this Company's lines as they are.
Its London (England) offices are 124 High Holborn, 449 Strand, 3 Adelaide street and 139 Cheapside. Its Manchester (England) office, 1 and 3 Princess street. Its Paris office, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. Its New York office, 409 Broadway. Its Boston office, 5 State street. Its Chicago offices, 60 and 62 Clark street, Palmer House, in Grand Pacific Hotel and at its Passenger Station on the corner Wells and Kinzie streets. Its St. Paul office, corner Third and Jackson streets. Its Minneapolis office, 13 Nicollet House. Its Council Bluffs offices are at the Transfer Depot, C. & N.-W. Ry. Depot on Broadway and at the corner of Broadway and Pearl streets. Its Omaha offices, 1324 Farnham, corner Fourteenth street, and at U. P. Depot. Its Denver office, 8 Windsor Hotel Block. Its San Francisco office, No. 2 New Montgomery street, in Palace Hotel.
Waltham Watches
WITH TWENTY-FOUR HOUR DIVISION DIALS
RECOGNIZING THE NECESSITY OF HAVING WATCHES THAT CONFORM TO THE
New System of Indicating Time
ADOPTED BY SOME OF THE RAILROADS, OF
Counting the Hours from One to Twenty-Four Consecutively,
— THE —
AMERICAN WATCH COMPANY
Of Waltham, Mass.,
Are now prepared to furnish Watches as indicated by the above Cut.
THESE DIALS CAN ALSO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR THOSE NOW IN USE AT A VERY SMALL EXPENSE.
For Sale by All Jewellers.
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THE PALMER, CHICAGO.
WILLIS HOWE, Managing Partner.
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN.ENTIRELY FIRE-PROOF.750 ROOMS.
GRIFFIN & WELLS FOUNDRY CO.
RAILROAD CAR, ENGINE AND STREET CAR WHEELS.
ANNUAL CAPACITY,50,000 WHEELS.