The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-25
PALACE STOCK CARS.

First ThrouEa Train EroIn st. L6bIs TO
New Yerk-Hoyv 1t All Works,
The departure for New York yesterday of the
first through train of Streets palace stock cars
loaded with cattle is m event worthy of note.
The train left Venice with 172 head of steers.
A number of gentlemen invited by Mr.. James
Montgomery, Vice.PTesident of tto company,
went over 70 Venice and witnessed the manner
in which the cattle were shipped on board of
the cars.
There were eleven cars painted green, each
arranged for holding sixteen hea6 of cattle. To
place the cattle Ia these cars it required on an
average about nfne minutes foT-oach car, but in
one Instance the car was loaded with its COM
plement of live stock in six minutes and a half.
Sometimes an obstinate anim1l could neither be
coayed nor driven, and had to be propelled by
wriDging his tail and punching him with sticks,
in order to get him on the train, but as a gene
rai thing the bovine passengers entered the car
up the inclined gangWay with the alacrity of
any other passenger haviBy, a free pass.
The care are arranged with separate stalls,
separated by gates, which are closed as seen as
an OK gets his place, and these stalls are easily
adjustable TO the size of the animal, 50 as TO
afford ample room for lying down, and to rise
up at will. A bedding of shavings is strewn
over the bottom, SO that the animals have all
the accommodations OF first-class sleeping-car
to rest their bones. At the Top of the car is a
feed box, with canvas spouts which communi-
cate with the feed basins underneath; also a
water tank, affording O supply of water, by
which arrangement the cattle can be fed aud
Wagered during the transit without UnSnlpplng.
The cars are built some eight feet longer than
ordinary stock cars and in regard to the width
Mr.. Mulhall expressed the opinion that expe-
rience win require them to be wider. Under
meath is the passenger-car truck, with ellipti-
cal springs and swinging bar, giving to the car
the same ease of motion as the regular passenger
car, the advantages of which are that the wear
and tear will be no greater the ease of motion
overcoming all evil effects of the sudden stop
ping and starting of the train. The stock train
will run through to New York in ninety-six
hours, instead of consuming ten days as form
erly, the animals being stalled, fed and watered
without any unshippiug. The cars from here
pass over the Pennsylvania Companv's lines,
that company having made contract for trans
porting cattle with the Street Palace Stock Car
Company.
The latter company charges three dollars per
which royalty covers the additional expense of
feeding, watering, and cost of attendance. The
advantages are that stock will be delivered in
less than one-half of the time consumed under
the old method of stock shipment. when four
stoppages had to be madesfor feeding, resting,
and watering. The cattle, it is claimed will
now be delivered at their destination free from
bruises or losses by death, or being trampled
upon, squeezed, and hooked by their fellow
passengers The shipper can likewise calculate
TO an hour when his cattle will reach him, so as
to meet the most favorable market, which,
coupled with the saving from shrnkage, it is
maintained that from one-half to one and one
half cent per pound will be saved to the shipper.
st. Louis Democrat. 22d inst.