Connecticut western news., 1877-06-08
Luxury on the Rail.
THE DIFFERENCE.

We have been frequently asked: "What is the difference between railroad dining car and q Pullman Hotel carr" That there is vast difference Is well-known by those who have had occasion to use either; but the untraveled public are not fully advised as to the points of difference. The old fashioned railroad eating house is, alas 1! too we'll known, its peculiar, hastily -eatep meals have been partaken of by too many thousands to be forgotten. The dining-car, then. is this well-known eating house placed on wheels, attached to the train at the usual meal hours, and hauled along for thirty. forty or sixty miles. until the mea had been served, when 1t is set off on q slde-track, and is by the next train hauled back to it's starting point, and SO 1t runs few miles for each meal. To get meals inl this car the passenger has to work hls way through the entire train while it is under full motion. pass from car to car, running the risks of falling between the platforms, and finally finding the car at the rear of the train. Then comes the meal, which must be hurried through with to give chance for other hungry passengers to take your place, and you must force your way back to your seat, and again run the risks of your plat form passage while the tram is at full speed. In such cars you pay seventy five cents for a meal, even if you take or need only cup of coffee and a cracker. Bsar in mind. i'm no case do these dining cars accompany the train from starting point to destination. They are always ''cut off and taken on as we have described. With the Pullman Hotel car the case is different in every re- spect. These cars are from sixty to sixty six feet long, have sixteen wheels under each, are built strong, so as to insure steady, quiet running, without the usual unpleasant side motion. Each Hotel car contains, in the order named, the following compartments:
 1st. A cosey, neat and clean little kitch- en, fitted up with Q range, an ice and mea, box, rows of shelves covered with bright silver and brighter glass ware, and all the appliances needed for preparing sumptu- ousmeal.
 2d. A compact China and glass closet, in which is kept the table ware and table linen, cutlery, &c.
 Sd. A passage way cutting off the kitch- en and china closet from the rest of the car, and forming an air chamber to prevent the smell of the cooking victuals from reaching the saloon portion of the car.
 4th. The grand saloon. This is fitted up with twelve, fourteen or sixteen sec. tions, with space for tables between each and in these the meals are served. You, while on this car, own the space you occu- py as much as you do your room at home, and no one can hurry you at meals, nor are you forced to give it up to allow any other person to occupy it. At night as if by magic, this saloon is changed into a boudoir, and here your couch is prepared, and here you rest yourself isolated and as separated from your fellow travellers as you would be in your own led chamber.
 9th. An elegant drawing room, with room for six or eight persons. This is found alone in these magnificent cars. In it you and your family or party of friends may be as secluded as you please, or you can slide open the end and have the com psny of those in the grand saloon.
 9th. Charmingly arranged lavatories gre partitioned off and arranged in two distinct compartments for the separate use of la. dies and gentlemen. These lavatories are supplied with pure water, clean towels, combs, brushes, and, in fact, everything the most dainty may desire for the perfect performance of an elaborate toilet.
 7th. Then follow conductors and DOT ters' rooms, linen closets. etc., etc.
 It will thus be seen that this car is, as its name implies, perfect modern hotel, with all of its appliances and comforts complete This car is taken on at the commencement of the journey, and is part of the train to it's destination. In it you get your sleeping compartments and your meal accommoda- tions, while neither encroach upon the other. Envious dlning-csr employees, who are paid to decry this form of Hotel car, cannot, with anything like truth on thelr side. give any valid or conclusive reasons for preferring the dining to the Hotel car, and they only chatter In favor of their dln- ing car because they are paid to do so These Hotel cars have run from New York to San Francisco and back with the Empe- TOT Dom Pedro-with Jarrett S& Palmer's party. that travelled at almost lightning speed-with many a party of California bonanza kings; and all join in pledg!ng | their honor that the cars are incomparable. l
 Two lines of these celebrated cars run | between New York and Chicago, and one line only between Chicago and Omaha. It may be needless to say that this last named | line runs over the steel track of the Chics- | go & Northwestern Railway. That these cars are attracting large share of the Cali fornia travel, both ways, might easily be conjectured. Any road deserves to be patronized that is enterprising enough to give the travelling public such facilities as are freely rendered by the Chicago & North Western Railway on its California line.
 We have neglected to say that, in these Hotel cars, the meals are q la carte-you pay for what you get, and nothing more; and this at very reasonable rates.-Ths Tribune, April z, 1877.