Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-04-06
Hotel Cars.
ANOTHER GRAND IMPROVEMENT TO BE MADE BY
THE ''PIoSEEB LISE-DEsCRIPTioN OF THE
suPHRB CARS NOW BEING coSsTRUcTRD.

ANOTHER GRAND IMPROVEMENT To BE MADE III
THE ''PIoSEEB" LIsE-DEscRIPTIoN OF THE
suPHRB CARS NOW BEING CONSTRUCTED.
For some time we have heard hints of n
line Of hotel cars for the Omaha and Calltor-
MIA line of the Chicago 4 Northwestern
Railway. When asked about their cars, the
officers have uniformly evaded a direct reply.
Our reportorial instincts taught MS TO i'll
vestignte for ourselves. We have done SO,
and are now enabled to state positively that
such line will be started IN the early spring,
and that the cars are now being built. The
fact will no longer be n secret utter this days
paper gets before the public.
Four of the most magnificent hotel ears
that have been built any where are now being
constructed by the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany expressly for 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 curled maple,
the place of the usual head-lining being
filed in with foreign polished woods; the
panels between the windows will be of Cali
!orna laurel and other California woods; the
lamp fixtures. window fastenings, door hard
Nhit. tiNl Will bc VI liillS Hlhttu NliNtl ut
upholstery of the seats Ii 10 be of rich but
plain reps. corresponding and harmonizing
with the wood finish of the sides and root of
the cars. Between each set OF seats is space
| for a table that will accommodate four per
| sons comfortably, but as rule are not ex-
| pected to seat more than two persons The
| glass and chlnawnro for the tables are now
being made ut Dresden, Germany, from pat
terms selected from the ROYAL Dresden exhl-
! bit that WAS at the Centennial Exposition
and So greatly admired. Each piece of silver
ware, glass ware and china-wure will have
the monogram of tho Chicago d North West
ern road marked thereon. The kitchen Of
the cars will he SO arranged that no fumes
| from the cooking yiunds can reach the uccu-
| pants of the berth. On each ear will be II
steward, two cooks, three walters, and II
| chamhcrinaid to wait upon lady patrons. 1t
! il the intention of the company to furnish
| the best 'meals that money cun buy, and
choice wines and cigars will be attuinabo by
those desiring those Injuries.
| These hotel cars will leave Chicago on the
California Express" and run through to
| the Missouri river. On the west bound traln,
dinner, supper and breakfast will be served.
The easi bound hotel cars will leave Omaha
on the Atlantic Express each day, i'll the
afternoon. On this train supper. breakfast
-
bound in either direction will be enabled to
| have all their meals en route and yet not
leave their palatial travelling 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 en-
tirely obviated; no person, no matter how
particular he or she may be, will have cause
to make any objections on tins score In
the dining car you merely get your meals.
and as soon as you are through eating you
are showed out aud started for the coach or
sleeper, SO rs to make room for some other
traveller who desires your place. While i'll
these hotel cars your berth will be secured
through, YOU will own it absolutely for the
length of your trip. and it will be your own
for lounging, sitting, sleeping, and eating
purposes, as much your own sent IN your
own house. As it is not generally known,
dining cars are never run over the entire
length of any route; they are taken on and
set ,of of the train ut stated meal times,
while these hotel cars will be made part oi
the train and run through in the same way
as the regular sleeping car.
On the admirable steel rail that Ii now laid
on the Chicago 4 North " estern Railway
these elegant sixteen wheeled hotel cars vii
ride as easy and with little noise or oscilla
ton as II balloon that floats serenely through
the All; aud We believe it will he found to he
result that thousands will flock to this
"Pion, er Line" who have hitherto gone by
some other route.
With these and other improvements the
people of Cedar Rapids are very largely in
terested and we believe will Join with us in
congratulating the progressive management