The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-19
rHETRrUMpH OE ART IN RAILROAD TRAVEL.

Year by year we note the footsteps of progress
In many directions In no direction Is progress
more palpable than In the facilities offered the
railroad traveller of the present day. Looking
back but few years. we can see the toiling snail.
like advance made day by day by the emigrants
wagon, as 1t was slowly but surely drawn toward
sundown by the patient OK, or the slowly moving
farm horse; then came the old fashioned stage
coach following closely, we had the canal pack.
ct; then the steamer on the lakes and rivers
then the locomotive engine aud the stage like
car. Now the palatial coach, and more than
palatial drawing room and sleeping car. Yet, not
satisfied with these, that marvel OF mammoth
western corporations the Chicago & North. West
ern Railway, az we stated some weeks ago, has
developed hotel cars that will, for elegance use.
fulness and real comfort, eclipse everything Of
the kind that has been hitherto placed In service
en- amy road, Some Of our readers seem to have
some doubts about the merits of hotel cars, or
their superiority over the socalled dining car,
that Is run for few miles on some roads. II am
not so sure about that" said one OF our friends
as he had 6nishei reading our first article about
these hotel coaches that are to be run on the
Omaha and Calf rnia line Of the Chicago d
Northwestern Railway, II am not so sure
would care to take my dinner In any car no mat
ter how much like palace, while II was running
at the rate Of forty miles an hour. itis saying,
that the faster you run the safer" Why, last
June II will be remembered, that this road hauled
from Chicago TO Council Bluffs, in less than ten
hours, the now celebrated Jarrett and Palmer
Train" On that train was hotel car. not as
large, with less wheels under 1t, poorer springs,
and In no way as strong aud easy for riding in as
these new cars are to be- and yet Mr.. jarrett said
while ON the Chicago q North Western line run.
ming at an average rate Of fifty miles an hour, we
took our breakfast as comfortably as we would at
Delmonico's, in New York"
It is we'll known that the Chicago 4 North.
Western Railway is built over the most favorable
line as to grades that could be found between
Chicago and the Missouri River, with but few
curves; its track Is mostly Of heavy steel rail,
gravel ballasted, with wide roadway. giving 1t
permanence aud solidity-it is as smooth as
foor; all It's cars strong with plenty Of wheels
under them, and with springs SO adjusted that
the usual bouncing" and oscillation is reduced
to the minimum. We observed last week that in
an ordinary car the side motion and rising and
falling of the car was less than half an inch, and
sometimes scarcely percepube. We believe il
will be found that person viii sit in these hotel
cars aud eat or tgfite as comfortably as he could
at his desk or table at home; this tre choose 10 call
tie triumph Of art in ratltgdy rduel.
We learn that this new line OF botel cars Is be-
ing pushed TO completion az last as the full force
of Workmen in the Pullman shops eau do 1t. We
Rhall be certain TO see them IN few Weeks.-Ce-
dar Rdptds RpHblieoa, Fsb. 1871.