The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-05-27

1t seems @ lev yen<9 ago, when nj.
Pullman canle ~ With his palace
sleeping cars as Ii the climax of CONF
fort for frayeicxs had been reached,
and cerfsinIy seems so now since the
arrival to-day from the Pullman Pa
c;fic Company's Car Works OF the
new Portable Hotel 9Algoma,r one of
a set of four which that Co. has just
completed under the direction of
George n. Pullman, President Of the
Cox.nr the accommodates Is excnr-
sion travel. These pQFtahle hotels
owe their existence % the great snc-'
cess of the '.Hotel Express systeI4y
which has been in use on the Pacific
railroads for the last six months, and
of which they are really an elabora-
ton and extension. They differ from
the "Hotel Express" cars in that they
are even more elegant than those;
that they are intended for special ex-
cursions to the Pacific, not for regular
travel, and that they ply on any road
between the Atlantic and Pacific. s
The portable hotels are made, fin
ished, and furnished in the most Gle
CANT manner possible, and contain
state rooms, private drawing rooms,
general parlor, kitchen, ETC., furnished
with all the essential comforts of q
home. Their dimensions are fifty-five
feet long by ten feet wide, which is
the same as the smallest size of Pull
man Palace Cars. They are calculat-
ed to accommodate from twenty to
twenty-five guests. They are mount
ed upon twelve wheels, painted ex-
tcrnally in wine color aud gilt, as the
other Pullman cars, and cost, with
their outfit of plate, ETC., 1000 each.
Tie modus Ope'andi of tn c p0rta-
BILE hotel system is something like
tits; A party of twenty-say Mt Bos-
ton, for a Boston party has already
chartered the Riverside one of the
four for trip to the Pacific-secures
portable hotel at eighty-five dollars
day for the trip. This is about tour
dollars a passenger, the same rate
which the single traveller now pays
for a seat i'm a drawing room car by
day, and berth by night. With the
car Tor hotel, as you please they get o
steward, cook, and two walters, pay
for whose services is included in the
rate above mentioned. They purvey
for themselves, the steward acting rs
their business agent in the procuring
of extra supplies, transportation. etc,
along the route. 1t is estimated that
a party canlive sumptuously for about
two dollars each, under this arrange
ment. They attach their "hotel" to
the best trains of whatever road they
intend to travel, and detach it when-
ever they arrive at a city, a point or
a junction where they desire to switch
off for any purpose. For instance,
arriving at Ogden, and wishing, OF
course, to investigate the mysteries of
Brigham Young's harem, their hotel
is switched upon the Utah Central
Railroad, and i'm jiffy they are in
Salt Lake City. Having ''dOne' that
Quaint capital of The Mormon Zion,
they proceed to join the express train
OH the main line, serving in the same
way such of the mining districts or
points of mountain scenery as they
NAV wish to see mere thoroughly.
Wherever they go-thrnugh noun
tain businesses, over alkaline deserts,
or " here not-they have their home
with them. The pleasures of home
and travel have never been combined
i'm this wonderful way before. We
have no doubt of the perfect success
of the enterprise, and cannot help q
little self-felicitation, just now, upon
the fact that this paper was the first
journal to approve and press before
the public Mr.. Pullman's scheme of
DINING cars, as initiated in the "Del-
mohicO," some two years since.
Though there are special reasons why
this system should succeed precmi-
nently in the Pacific Railroad travel,
we do not by any means believe that
it will long he confined to that route.
-ChtcagO E'ceaing Post. 80,