The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-16
HOTEL CARS.
Another Grand Improvement to he made
ON the ssPiOneer'' Line.
Description of the superb Cars now be-
HnE Constructed.

the ssPiOmeers' Lime.
description of the superb Cars now be- |
HnE Constructed.
For some time we have heard hints
of line of hotel cars for the Omaha
and California line of the Chicago &
North Western Railway. When asked
about their cars, the officers have uni
formly evaded direct reply. Our "re-
portorlal instincts" taught us to investi-
gate for ourselves. We haYe done SO,
and are now enabled to state positieely
that such a line will be started in the
early spring, and that the cars are now
being built. The fact will no longer be
a secret after this days paper gets be-
fore the public.
-Four of the most magnificent hotel
cars that have been built dny,chere are
now, being constructed by the Pullman
Palace Car Company expressly f this
line. These cars will be sixty-six feet
long, ten feet wide, and ten feet high,
with twelve sections, one drawing-room
with table room for six persons), and
one state room, besides the kitchen,
china closet, dressing room, etc. The
interior will be finished with black and
white walnut, mahogany, French ash,
and CURED maple, the place of the usual
head-liUing being filled in with foreign
polished woods; the panels between the
windows will be of California laurel and
other California woods; the lamp fix
lures, window faSteninos, door hard
ware, e.c., will be of triple plated silver.
The upholstery of the seats is TO be of
rich but plain reps, corresponding and
harmonizing with the wood finished of
the sides and roof of the cars. Between
each set of seats is space for table that
will accommodate four persons comfort
ably, but as rule are not expected to
seat more than two persons. The glass
and chinaware for the tables are now
being made at Dresden, Germany. from
patterns selected from the Royal Dres-
den exhibit that was at the Centennial
Exposition and SO greatly admired.
Each piece of silver-ware and china
ware will have the monogram of the
Chicago g North Western road marked
| thereon The kitchens of the cars will
| be sd arranged that no fumes from the
cooking viands can reach the occupants
of the berths. On each car will be
steward, two cooks, three walters, and
chambermaid to wait upon lady pat
rons. 1t is the intention OF the company
to furnish the best meals that money
! can buy, and ch ice wines and cigars
| will be attainable by those desiring
those luxuries.
These hotel cars will leave Chicago
| on the sCalifornia Express and run
| through 10 the Missouri river. On the
west bound train, dinner, supper and
breakfast will be served. Thus passen-
gers bound in either direction will be
enabled to have all their meals en- route
and yet not leave their palatial travel
ing parlor.
The only objection that has ever been
| raised against the use of hotel cars has
been connected with the odors of the
kitchen. As we said before, this, in
these cars, will be entirely obviated no
person, no matter how particular he or
| she may be, will have cause to make
any objections on this score. In the
dining car you merely get your meals,
and as soon as you are through eating
| you are showed out and started for the
coach or sleeper, so as to make room for
some other traveller who desires your
| place. While In these hotel ears your
berth will be secured through. you will
own it absolutely for the length or yonr
trip, ard it will be your own for loung-
ing, sitting, s'eeping, and eating pnr-
| poses, as much as ysur own house. As
it is not generally known, dining cars
are never Inn over the entire length of
| any route; they are taken on and set off
+, OF the train at stated meal times, while
/ these hotel cars will be made a part of
| the train and run through in the same
way as the regular sleeping car.
| On the admirable steel rail that is
now laid on the Chicago &5 Northwes-
tern Railway, these elegant. sixteen
| wheeled hotel cars will ride as easy and
| with as little noise or oscillation as a
balloon that floats serenely through the
| air; and we believe it will be found to
be result that thousands will flock to
this " Pioneer Line," who have hitherto
| gone by some other route.
! With these and other improvements
the people are very largely interested
and we believe will join with us in con-
graduating the progressive management
of this great line Iii this its most adj
vapced step; aud unite with MS in say
/! ing, the Chicago 65 North Western has
/ become the foremost road in all the
| WeeS.
These ncte1 ears will he placed in SER
vice about March 1st, 1S77.-Repat6tt-
can, Dec. %, 1876.