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is all that could be desired by reason on the straight hallways and amply facilites for descent from the upper floors.

The leesees are Messrs. Shears & Markel, long and favorably known to the people of Nebraska as the managers of the Millard hotel at Omaha. Mr. Shears, having severed his connection with the Millard, devotes his entire attention to the Lincoln while Mr. Markel divides his time between the Millard and the Lincoln. If there is a finer hotel than the Lincoln between Chicago and the coast the CALL does not know what it is. The building cost $200,000, the lots $50,000, and the furniture $50,000.

THE LINDELL IMPROVEMENTS.
Another notable hotel enterprise of the year has been the addition to the Lindell hotel, owned and conducted by Dr. A. L. Hoover and son, which makes it scarcely second to the Lincoln in the extent and character of the accommodations it affords to the traveling public. The original building was 50x142 feet and the addition, which is four stories high, occupies all the remaining space on three fifty-foot lots except a space 25x75. This will be built upon later and will give a frontage of 150 feet on M street and 142 on Thirteenth. The hotel has 144 guest rooms, and is furnished as finely as any hotel in the state. It is a popular house and a monument to the ability and enterprise of Dr. Hoover and son.

THE BOND HOTEL
Which was built by Mrs. Isabella Bond is a four story brick structure occupying the corner of Twelfth and Q streets. This hotel is well finished and well furnished and has 84 sleeping apartments and fifteen parlors. It has all modern conveniences.

"THE BIGELOW"
Was planned by Mr. Geo E. Bigelow and an excavation 200 feet on P street and 142 feet on Fourteenth was made, before complications arose which delayed the work. This building, as planned is even more extensive than The Lincoln, being seven stories high and larger on the ground. It comprises both a mammoth hotel and an opera house. Work will probably be resumed in the spring.

FOOD FOR REFLECTION.
Pertinent Questions Easily Answered.

Acknowledging the eternal fitness of things, and the fact that Lincoln is today one of the most enterprising and foremost cities of the union, and the coming [metropolies?] of Nebraska, we would respectfully ask to whom she is indebted, to a great exent, for her present enviable position.

What line of railroad first knocked for admittance at her door, and by constant and untiring energy has made her the greatest reailroad center of the west?

What railroad has located her great centeral shops in Lincoln, and thereby largely increased her population and added hundreds of thousands of dollars to her list of improvements?

What railroad possesses the finest passenger, as well as the largest and most complete freight depot, in our capital city?

What railroad provides solid vestibuled grains between Lincoln and Chicago, and between Lincoln and Denver withou change or delay; trains that for beauty of finish, thourough construction, or superior design are not to be found on the continent?

What railroad always anticipates the wants of her patrons and provides the same in advance of the asking?

What railroad has penetrated the heart of the Black Hills, an undertaking involving an enormous outlay of money, and requiring undaunted courage and perseverance, but which has brought to Lincoln's very doors their untold wealth of coal, tin, iron, oil, gold, silver, etc.?

What railroad, by persistent building and continuous branching out in all directions, has made Lincoln a jobbing centre of pronounced importance and commercial activity?

What railroad runs beautiful parlor cars, diners and chair cars from Lincoln to various points, providing every comfort that ingenuity can devise or money procure?

What railroad covers the distance between Lincoln and Omaha in seventy-five minutes, or at a rate of speed of almost a mile a minute?

What railroad is making Lincoln the home and headquarters of many of her general officers, including the general superintendent, division superintendent, general solicitor, assisstant land commissioner, general baggage agent, chief engineer, stationer, superintendent of telegraph, general agent, car accountant, solicitor, master mechanic, commercial agent, and scores of employees who live here, pay taxes, and assist in many ways in upbuilding and improvising our capital city?

What railroad runs nine daily passenger trains between Lincoln and Omaha for the convenience of the traveling public?

What railroad generously donated over a hundred thousand dollars in freight charges for the benefit of the poor? Ask the early grass-hopper sufferers and the present victims of crop failure, they will tell you who did it.

What railroad always responds to the cry of distress and want and carries free of all charge vast quantities of clothing, fuel and other supplies for the benfit of Nebraska's destitute?

What railroad operates a line of Pullman's finest sleepers between Lincoln, St. Joe, Kansas City, Denver, Cheyenne, Newcastle, Deadwood, and Chicago without change?

What railroad owns nearly a hundred miles of side track in the city of Lincoln alone, more track by far than is used in the entire length of some of the branch roads entering here?

What railroad do we refer to? Is it the "Burlington," or is it some other road?

Scores of questions similar to the above might be propounded, but it is unnecessary. An intelligent, discerning and fairminded public are quick to accept a good thing, and prompt in showing their appreciation of the same. 'Tis said that a loyal citizen will patronise home industries in preference to those of foreign manufacture; this is true also of railroads and their patrons, and it is hardly to be expected that roads who display a penurious policy, who offer inferior train service, inadequate depot facilities or show a lack of public interest, can secure, or even hope to receive, a share of the business.

Lincoln people are essentially of one mind, and work to a unit when anything arises that concerns their beautiful city, they will patronze the road that interests itself in the welfare of their town, and invests liberally in building up the same. If the roads who put up a seven by nine wooden shed on the outskirts of the town with the idea that, as a depot, it is good enough for our people, they labor under a mistake, and a sad one too.

There is nothing too good for Lincoln and the "Burlington" is keenly alive to this fact and will continue in the future, as in the past, to disburse her funds with a lavish hand, that Lincoln and her good people may share with her the sure and satisfactory results of careful forethought, intellignent management, and a generous policy.

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific.

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railway not only furnishes unequaled facilities of inter-communication to hundreds of cities, towns and communities within the territory traversed by its 3,354 miles of track, but its close relation to trunk roads converging at Chicago from the east, and lines radiating from its terminal to ulterior points west, northwest and southwest make it the mid-link and most important factor in the great trans-continental thoroughfare that extends in one unbroken chain from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Its recent extensions west and soutwest has developed opportunities for the investments of labor and capital in districts comparatively new, but rich in pastoral, agricultural and mineral resources. It was the first road to build over the prairie west from Chicago to the Mississippi, and possibly the first to make a through, transcontinental line by building to a junction with the Union Pacific at Council Bluffs. It traverses now a dozen states and is in a continuous process of extension. It has been one of the potent agencies in forming the opulent and populous cities of the wesst and in the reclamation of the wilderness as far toard the occident as the Rockies, and it has always endeavored to maintain harmonious relations with the great public, its patrons. In the more sparsely settled portions of Kansas, Colorado and the Indian Territory it now offers substantial inducements to those who wish to engage in stock raising fruit culture or other industrial pursuits, and has provided scores and outlet for the conversion into marketable products, of vast deposits of stone, salt, from and coal, hitherto unavailable and untouched. It has imparted a healthful vigor to progress and growth all along its lines, and its approach and friendly co-operation has everywhere been welcomed as the dawn of a new era of fruitful life. The Rock Island, in its construction, discloses abounding evidence of the best engineering and mechanical skill.

Its excellent passenger equipment- comprehending all "improvement," that add to personal security and comfort- leads competition in the west and is nowhere surpassed. Its running arrangements alike serve the uses and minister to the convenience of the traveling public. All passenger trains arrive at and depart from its magnificent station on Van Buren street, which covers an entire block in the business heart of Chicago, within a stone's throw of the auditorium- central to a vicinage of splendid stores, hotels, opera houses, theaters, board of trade, government and municipal buildings, and directly accessible by cable lines from all parts of the city. Its solid vestibule express trains consist of strictly first class day coaches, Pullman sleeping cars, dining cars and free reclining chair cars, forming practically a series of parlors and drawing rooms under one continuous roof, impennetrable to cold draughts or dust cool in summer and heated to an agreeable warmth in winter by steam from the locomotive. These run daily ever its main lines between Chicago and Davenport, Des Moines, Council Bluffs and Omaha (reclining chair cars and Pullman sleepers to Lincoln, Neb.), and between Chicago and Denver, Colorado springs and Pueble via Kansas City and Topeka or via St. Joseph. The Rock Island is the favorite tourist line to and from Manitou, Pike's Peak (via the new cog railway), Ute Park, Cascade, Green Mountain Falls, Glenwood Springs, and all other sanitary and scenic resorts of Colorado, forming, with lines diverging from Denver and Colorado Springs, the new and picturesque Standard Guage Trans-Rocky Mountain route, over which superbly equipped trains run through without change of cars to and from Salt Lake City, Ogden and San Francisco. From St. Joseph and Kansas City daily express trains with Pullman sleepers and reclining chair cars run to and from all points in Kansas, and Kingfisher, El Reno and Minco, in the Indian territory. Similar fast express trains run daily (via Albert Lee route) from Kansas City and Chicago to Spirit Lake, Watertown, Sioux Falls, Minneapolis and St. Paul (the popular summer line to the famous watering places and hunting and fishing grounds fo the "lake park region" of Minnesota) connecting for all points north and northwest. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway, in brief, offers a choice of the most desirable routes to and from all important localities between the lakes and the Pacific coaast, assuring its patrons a delightful journey that will include all the comforts and luxuries incident to the most approved methods of modern railway travel.

WHOLESALE BUSINESS.

A. T. Leming & Co.
Located at 1106 O street, is the wall paper and stationery store of A. T. Leming & Co., one of the largest houses in the country in this line business, and the largest in Lincoln. They do a wholesale and retail business, and their territory is an extensive one. In 1889 they had one representative on the road; in 1890 one more was sent out, and after September 1st, of last year, three rustling men were necessary to cover the field. Their business shows an increase of 65 per cent, on account of adding additional territory the last year, and was highly satisfatory, with prospects for 1891 first class. They added Kansas, South Dakota and Wyoming to their territory and more of Colorado than they have previously covered.

Their jobbing business for the year reached [$140,000?]. West of Chicago this firm practically has no competition

is all that could be desired by reason on the straight hallways and amply facilites for descent from the upper floors.

The leesees are Messrs. Shears & Markel, long and favorably known to the people of Nebraska as the managers of the Millard hotel at Omaha. Mr. Shears, having severed his connection with the Millard, devotes his entire attention to the Lincoln while Mr. Markel divides his time between the Millard and the Lincoln. If there is a finer hotel than the Lincoln between Chicago and the coast the CALL does not know what it is. The building cost $200,000, the lots $50,000, and the furniture $50,000.

THE LINDELL IMPROVEMENTS.
Another notable hotel enterprise of the year has been the addition to the Lindell hotel, owned and conducted by Dr. A. L. Hoover and son, which makes it scarcely second to the Lincoln in the extent and character of the accommodations it affords to the traveling public. The original building was 50x142 feet and the addition, which is four stories high, occupies all the remaining space on three fifty-foot lots except a space 25x75. This will be built upon later and will give a frontage of 150 feet on M street and 142 on Thirteenth. The hotel has 144 guest rooms, and is furnished as finely as any hotel in the state. It is a popular house and a monument to the ability and enterprise of Dr. Hoover and son.

THE BOND HOTEL
Which was built by Mrs. Isabella Bond is a four story brick structure occupying the corner of Twelfth and Q streets. This hotel is well finished and well furnished and has 84 sleeping apartments and fifteen parlors. It has all modern conveniences.

"THE BIGELOW"
Was planned by Mr. Geo E. Bigelow and an excavation 200 feet on P street and 142 feet on Fourteenth was made, before complications arose which delayed the work. This building, as planned is even more extensive than The Lincoln, being seven stories high and larger on the ground. It comprises both a mammoth hotel and an opera house. Work will probably be resumed in the spring.

FOOD FOR REFLECTION.
Pertinent Questions Easily Answered.

Acknowledging the eternal fitness of things, and the fact that Lincoln is today one of the most enterprising and foremost cities of the union, and the coming [metropolies?] of Nebraska, we would respectfully ask to whom she is indebted, to a great exent, for her present enviable position.

What line of railroad first knocked for admittance at her door, and by constant and untiring energy has made her the greatest reailroad center of the west?

What railroad has located her great centeral shops in Lincoln, and thereby largely increased her population and added hundreds of thousands of dollars to her list of improvements?

What railroad possesses the finest passenger, as well as the largest and most complete freight depot, in our capital city?

What railroad provides solid vestibuled grains between Lincoln and Chicago, and between Lincoln and Denver withou change or delay; trains that for beauty of finish, thourough construction, or superior design are not to be found on the continent?

What railroad always anticipates the wants of her patrons and provides the same in advance of the asking?

What railroad has penetrated the heart of the Black Hills, an undertaking involving an enormous outlay of money, and requiring undaunted courage and perseverance, but which has brought to Lincoln's very doors their untold wealth of coal, tin, iron, oil, gold, silver, etc.?

What railroad, by persistent building and continuous branching out in all directions, has made Lincoln a jobbing centre of pronounced importance and commercial activity?

What railroad runs beautiful parlor cars, diners and chair cars from Lincoln to various points, providing every comfort that ingenuity can devise or money procure?

What railroad covers the distance between Lincoln and Omaha in seventy-five minutes, or at a rate of speed of almost a mile a minute?

What railroad is making Lincoln the home and headquarters of many of her general officers, including the general superintendent, division superintendent, general solicitor, assisstant land commissioner, general baggage agent, chief engineer, stationer, superintendent of telegraph, general agent, car accountant, solicitor, master mechanic, commercial agent, and scores of employees who live here, pay taxes, and assist in many ways in upbuilding and improvising our capital city?

What railroad runs nine daily passenger trains between Lincoln and Omaha for the convenience of the traveling public?

What railroad generously donated over a hundred thousand dollars in freight charges for the benefit of the poor? Ask the early grass-hopper sufferers and the present victims of crop failure, they will tell you who did it.

What railroad always responds to the cry of distress and want and carries free of all charge vast quantities of clothing, fuel and other supplies for the benfit of Nebraska's destitute?

What railroad operates a line of Pullman's finest sleepers between Lincoln, St. Joe, Kansas City, Denver, Cheyenne, Newcastle, Deadwood, and Chicago without change?

What railroad owns nearly a hundred miles of side track in the city of Lincoln alone, more track by far than is used in the entire length of some of the branch roads entering here?

What railroad do we refer to? Is it the "Burlington," or is it some other road?

Scores of questions similar to the above might be propounded, but it is unnecessary. An intelligent, discerning and fairminded public are quick to accept a good thing, and prompt in showing their appreciation of the same. 'Tis said that a loyal citizen will patronise home industries in preference to those of foreign manufacture; this is true also of railroads and their patrons, and it is hardly to be expected that roads who display a penurious policy, who offer inferior train service, inadequate depot facilities or show a lack of public interest, can secure, or even hope to receive, a share of the business.

Lincoln people are essentially of one mind, and work to a unit when anything arises that concerns their beautiful city, they will patronze the road that interests itself in the welfare of their town, and invests liberally in building up the same. If the roads who put up a seven by nine wooden shed on the outskirts of the town with the idea that, as a depot, it is good enough for our people, they labor under a mistake, and a sad one too.

There is nothing too good for Lincoln and the "Burlington" is keenly alive to this fact and will continue in the future, as in the past, to disburse her funds with a lavish hand, that Lincoln and her good people may share with her the sure and satisfactory results of careful forethought, intellignent management, and a generous policy.

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific.

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railway not only furnishes unequaled facilities of inter-communication to hundreds of cities, towns and communities within the territory traversed by its 3,354 miles of track, but its close relation to trunk roads converging at Chicago from the east, and lines radiating from its terminal to ulterior points west, northwest and southwest make it the mid-link and most important factor in the great trans-continental thoroughfare that extends in one unbroken chain from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Its recent extensions west and soutwest has developed opportunities for the investments of labor and capital in districts comparatively new, but rich in pastoral, agricultural and mineral resources. It was the first road to build over the prairie west from Chicago to the Mississippi, and possibly the first to make a through, transcontinental line by building to a junction with the Union Pacific at Council Bluffs. It traverses now a dozen states and is in a continuous process of extension. It has been one of the potent agencies in forming the opulent and populous cities of the wesst and in the reclamation of the wilderness as far toard the occident as the Rockies, and it has always endeavored to maintain harmonious relations with the great public, its patrons. In the more sparsely settled portions of Kansas, Colorado and the Indian Territory it now offers substantial inducements to those who wish to engage in stock raising fruit culture or other industrial pursuits, and has provided scores and outlet for the conversion into marketable products, of vast deposits of stone, salt, from and coal, hitherto unavailable and untouched. It has imparted a healthful vigor to progress and growth all along its lines, and its approach and friendly co-operation has everywhere been welcomed as the dawn of a new era of fruitful life. The Rock Island, in its construction, discloses abounding evidence of the best engineering and mechanical skill.

Its excellent passenger equipment- comprehending all "improvement," that add to personal security and comfort- leads competition in the west and is nowhere surpassed. Its running arrangements alike serve the uses and minister to the convenience of the traveling public. All passenger trains arrive at and depart from its magnificent station on Van Buren street, which covers an entire block in the business heart of Chicago, within a stone's throw of the auditorium- central to a vicinage of splendid stores, hotels, opera houses, theaters, board of trade, government and municipal buildings, and directly accessible by cable lines from all parts of the city. Its solid vestibule express trains consist of strictly first class day coaches, Pullman sleeping cars, dining cars and free reclining chair cars, forming practically a series of parlors and drawing rooms under one continuous roof, impennetrable to cold draughts or dust cool in summer and heated to an agreeable warmth in winter by steam from the locomotive. These run daily ever its main lines between Chicago and Davenport, Des Moines, Council Bluffs and Omaha (reclining chair cars and Pullman