. Electric railway journal . on which they do not get from ordi-nary transportation lines. Shipments received at the Montrose and BroadwayStation in Chicago up to midnight are unloaded in theMilwaukee Station ready to be called for at 7 o clockthe following morning. Day shipments are handledwith equal promptness. Here is a concrete illustration, an everyday occur-rence the South Side in Chicago:rom Milwaukee He leftand Wabash s local A merchant whose scorefound it necessary to gee metchandithe NORTH SHORE Passenger Station atat 8 oclock on the Limited He ate breakfast on the dining car,reached
. Electric railway journal . on which they do not get from ordi-nary transportation lines. Shipments received at the Montrose and BroadwayStation in Chicago up to midnight are unloaded in theMilwaukee Station ready to be called for at 7 o clockthe following morning. Day shipments are handledwith equal promptness. Here is a concrete illustration, an everyday occur-rence the South Side in Chicago:rom Milwaukee He leftand Wabash s local A merchant whose scorefound it necessary to gee metchandithe NORTH SHORE Passenger Station atat 8 oclock on the Limited He ate breakfast on the dining car,reached Milwaukee and purchased the required goods: boarded aLimited leaving Milwaukee at u o clock noon: had luncheon onthe dining car; reached his store in Chicago returned to the Mont-rose and Broadway Station with his delivery truck and found themerchandise already there. He said it was the best Service hehad ever seen. He is a regular customer now Use the Electric and Save the Highways IllinoisTractionSystem (M? Kin ley Lines). Two Inside Pages of Four-Page Folder Sent to Prospective Merchandise Customers by North Shore Line Cover of the I. T. line representatives took exception to this, but wedefended our action simply by claiming the right toresort to any legitimate means of securing traffic, andnothing further has been heard of it. Through close touch with connecting lines we urgethe sale of through tickets whenever possible, and, ofcourse, through the Central Electric Traffic Association,each traffic manager seeks to help a sister line all hecan. In connection with the Western Ohio Railway,the Toledo, Fostoria & Findlay Railway and the Fostoria& Fremont Railway we offer a week-end reduced rateto Sandusky during the Cedar Point season. This rateis about 80 per cent of the regular fare. To Indianainterurban lines as well as the Wabash and Clover Leafsteam lines we offer the same reductions as a basingrate, and during the season we have many excursioniststo Cedar Poi
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