The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-09-05
HOTEL CARS.
Another Grand Improvement to be
made by the Pioneer" Line.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SUPERB CARS
NOW BEING CONSTRUCTED.

For some time we have heard hints of
line of hotel cars for the Omaha and Cal
ifornia line of the Chicago & NORTHWEST
crn Railway. When asked about their
cars, the officers have uniformly evadcd a
direct reply. Our "reportorial instincts;
taught us to investigate for ourselves.
We have done so, and and are now ena-
blel 20 state positively that such Il line
will be started in the early fall, and
that the cars are now being built. The
fact will no longer be a secret after this
days paper gets before the public
-Four of the most magnificent hotel cars
that have been built anywhere are now
being constructed by the Pullman Palace
Car Company expressly for this line.
These cars will be sixty 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 curlcd maple, the place of
the usual head-lining being filled in with
foreign polished woods; the panels be-
tween the windows will be of California
laurel and other California woods; the
lamp fixtures, window tastenings, door
hardware, etc, 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 finish Of
the sides and roof of the cars, Between
each set of seats is space for table that
| will accommodate four persons cOmiOrta-
| bly,, but as a rule is not expected to seat
more than two persons. The glass and
chinaware fol- the tables are now being
made at Dresden, Germany, frOmpatterns
selected from the Royal Dresden exhibit
that was at the Centennial Exposition and
so greatly admired. Each piece of silver
ware, glassware and chinaWare will
have the monogram of the Chicago d
| North-W Western road marked thereon.
| The kitchens of the cars will be SO ar
ranged that no fumes from the cooking
viands can reach the occupants of the
births. On each car will be stewart,
two cooks, three walters, and a chamber
maid to wait upon lady patrons. 1t is
the intention of the company to furnish
the best meals that money can buy, and
choice wines and cigars will be attainable
by those desiring those luXuries.
These hotel cars will leave Chicago on
the California Express, 'and run through
to the Missouri river. On the west-bound
train, dinner, supper and breakfast will
be served. The east-bound hotel cars
will leave Omaha on the "Atlantic EX-
press" each day, in the afternoon. On
the train supper, breakfast and dinner
will be served. Thus passengers bound
in either direction will be enabled TO have
all their meals en- route and yet not leave
their palatial travelling parlor.
| tfrhn On1u ohiaotion tbot hoe ova,, Haar
raised against the use of hotel ears has
been connected with the kitchen. AS We
said before, this, in these cars will be en-.
tirely obviated; noperson, 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 you
meals, and so soon as you are through
eating you are showed out and started fol-
the coach or sleeper, so as to make room
for some other traveller who desires youl
places. While in these hotel cars youl
berth will be secured through, YOU will
own it absolutely for the length of youl
trip, and it will be your own for lounging
sitting, sleeping, and eating purposes, az
3 much as your own seat in your own house
AS it is not generally known, dining cars
are never run over the entire length O.
any route; they are taken on and set of
of the train at stated meal times, while
these hotel cars will be made q part of tn,
, train and run through in the same way al
the regular sleeping car.
On the admirably steel rail that is now
laid ON the Chicago & North Western
, Railway, these elegant, sixteen-wheeleC
hotel cars will ride as easy and with al
little noise or oscillation as a balloon tina
! floats serenely through the air; and W,
: believe it will be found to be result tina
thousands will flock to this "Pionee
, Line" who have hitherto gone by SOM
other route.
With these and other improvements tn
people of Cedar Rapids are very Target,
interested and we believe will Join witt
} us in congratulating the progressive man
: agement of this great line in this its mos
advanced step; and unite with us in saw
! ing, The Chicago & Northwestern Rail
way has become the foremost road in al
: the Vest Republican.