APPENDIX A 



(See Chapters IV and VII) 



"GO WEST, YOUNG MAN" 



One evening in 1899 r 1900 the author of this 

 volume dined with the Hon. Mr. Gale of Galesburg, 

 Illinois, of the family for whom that city was named. 

 This note gives the substance of statements made by 

 him during and after the dinner. 



Mr. Gale was intimately associated with the Chi- 

 cago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad throughout its 

 great formative period. He said that at first no one 

 thought of Chicago as the terminus of any railroad, 

 all the roads supposing they must end at the Lake below 

 the city. This accounts for the manner in which the 

 Rock Island and the Illinois Central still approach 

 Chicago, swinging far around to the south before they 

 enter. The Burlington directors had supposed that 

 their line, too, must head directly for the Lake. This 

 notion of theirs was changed by no less a person that 

 Stephen A. Douglas, who came to Galesburg on pur- 

 pose to intercede with them to aim for Chicago direct, 

 assuring them that Chicago itself had a great destiny 

 before it, and that its trade was more to be sought than 

 the Lake trade. 



Mr. Gale said that the Burlington management was 

 slow to see the necessity of bridging the Mississippi, 

 their belief being the then common one that Iowa con- 



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