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Exterior and Interior View of the New Dining Cars

ON THE "GREAT ROCK ISLAND" ROUTE.

Models of Beauty, Comfort and Luxery--Possessing Novel and Distinctive Features of Excellence which makes them Incomparably Superior to the Ordinary Dining Cars in general use--Serving Delicious Meals at Moderate Prices-- Flesh, Fish and Game: Roast, Broil and Stew; Piquant Variety and Satisfying Abundance.

With Palace Coaches, Pullman Sleepers and Free Reclining Chair Cars, Forming Solid Vestibule Trains of Surprising Splendor---The Finest
in the World.

No Corresponding Increase in Rates of Fare for Improvements and
Conveniences that Assure to Colorado Passengers and Tourists via The Great Rock Island Route, the Largest Measure of Speed. Safety and Luxurious Enjoyment.

Whether Going Eat or West, To or From Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo or the Sanitary and Scenic Resorts of the "Centennial State," the Rock Island is the Best, Most Desirable, Through All-Rail Route.

AT DENEVR, COLORADO SPRINGS & pUEBLO

Passengers Arriving via the Great

Rock Island Vestibule Express,

Are transferred in Union stations to Trains fo connecting lines running to Silverton, Ouray, El Moro, Del Norte, Alamoss, Trinadad, in Colorado; Salt Lake City and Ogden in Utah; Helena, Butte , in MOntana; Boise City, in Idaho; Portland , in Oregone; Sacremento, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, SanFrancisco, in California, and all ulterior and intervening points West, to the

PACIFIC COAST.
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Our Vestibule Dining-Car Service.

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Travelers who appreciate the luxery of delicious meals, well served, between points of departure and destination, should see, when going west or southwest from Chicago, that they procure tickets via the CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY. To the prefection of its Vestibule Train equipment of Palce Coaches, Pullman Sleepers, FREE Reclining Chair Cares west of the Missouri River, now and sumptuously furnished Dining Cars have recently been added, affording a continuous through Vestibule Dining Car Service between Chicago and Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo.

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These Dining Cars (constructed for the exclusive use of Rock Island passengers) not only embody all the latest improvements in general use, but include special and distinctive features of excellence which render them incomparably superior to the ordinary dining cars. For beauty of exterior, and comfort, luxury and splender of interior arrangements, they have no equals in this country, and are unsurpassed even by the railway equipages of royalty in the Old World.

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No man ever suffered from dyspepsia who regaled himself at breakfast, dinner or supper upon the vianda served in ROCK ISLAND Dining Cares, for th eobvious reason that good cooking is the inveterate foe of dypepsia, and a true knowledge of the pleasures of the table enables the discriminating and cultivated taste to guard against its approach. Here we find piquant variety and satisfying abundance, in roast, broil or stew of flesh, fish or game. Here the fastidious appetiti of the invalid traveler is agreeably surprised, and the robust feeder broods over the table in a rhapsody of smiling content. To have dined well is indeed the sum total of each day's happiness.

Happy the mand and happy he alone,
He who call today his own;
He who secure within can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have dined today.

Designed, Constructed and Equipped for Special Trough Service in the Magnificent Solid Vestibule Express Trains which run daily each way over the

GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROCK ISLAND ROUTE,

Between Chicago and Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo.

For Maps, Folders ard all other information concerning the GREAT ROCK ISLAND, address} E. ST. JOHN, General Manager, GENERA OFFICES, Chicago, Ill, JOHN SEBASTIAN, Genertal Ticket and Passenger Agent.

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DENVER, COLORADO SPRINGS & PUEBLO

Passengers arriving via the Great

ROCK ISLAND VESTIBULE EXPRESS

Make Prompt Connections in

Union Stations witht eh outgoing trains for Manitou, Pike's Peak, Cascade, Green Mountain Falls, Buena Vista, Glenwood Springs, Aspen, Breckenridge, Fairplay, Como, Leadville, Gunnison, Boulder, Golden, Central Georgetown. Longmont, Ft. Colins, Greeley. and the numerous mining Camps, Hunting and Fishing Grounds, Hotel Resorts, and Mountain and Valley Towns reached by the

DENVER & RIO GRANDE, COLORADO MIDLAND, UNION PACIFIC

and other lines of railway radiating to all points from those terminal cities.

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VIA ALBERT LEA ROUTE,

Close connections at

Columbus Junction for Spirit Lake, Sioux Falls, Watertown, Minneapolis, St. Paul and the Scenic Resorts of the Northwest.

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A great French statesman once said that the discovery of a new dish was a far more interesting event that the discovery of a new star; "For" said he; "we always have stars enough, but we can never have too many dishes."

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Their appointments are perfection itself, the carving, veneering, tasteful decoration and harmoniuos modulations of tint and color producing a wonderfully eharming effect. Woodwork and panels are of solid mahogany, mirrors of solid glate glass, hangings and tapestry of heavy silk, lamps of burnished silver, easy cane chairs supplied with velvert cushioned seats. Every inch of space is so ingeniously economized that there is abundant room for waiters and guests.

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In the culinary department, the ranges, boilers, kitchen utensils, refrigerators, conveniences for hot and cold water, wine coolers, fruit and vegetable cans, receptables for broken ice, are neat, nice, cleanly---even elegantly disposed in their appropriate places---and all that the most exacting chef de cuisine could require for the happy achievement of triumphs int eh gastronomic art. The meals served on these Dining cars include substantials and seasonable delicacies, made all the more appetizing by spotless napkins and table linen, polished cutlery, and cut glass and silverware of dazzling brightness.