The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-12
The Rocky Mountain Resorts
rHErR1uMpH 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 eau 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 and 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 q North. West
ern Railway, as 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
on any road, Some Of our readers seem to have
some doubts about the merits of hotel cars, or
their superiority over the so'called dining car,
that Is run for few miles on some roads. II am
not 80 sure about that" said one of our friends
as he had finished reading our first article about
these hotel coaches that are 10 be run on the
Omaha and California line Of the Chicago y
North Western Railway, u am not so sure
would care to take my dinner in any car no mat
ter how much like a palace, while it was running
at the rate of forty miles an hour" It's saying
that the faster you run the safer" Why, last
June IL will be remembered, that this road hauled
from Chicago to Council Bluts, IN less tnan ten
hours, the now celebrated Jarrett and Palmer
Train,' On that train was hotel car, not as
large, with less wheels under it, poorer springs,
and In no way as strong and easy for riding in as
these new cars are TO be- and yet Mr.. jarrett said
while on the Chicago & North Western line, rum
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'll well known that the Chicago 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 and solidity-it is as smooth as
floor; all its 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 percephble. We believe u
will be found that person will sit in these hotel
cars and eat or tOrtte as comfortably as he could
at his desk or table at home This zoe choose to cdH
The triumph Of art in rdiltCdy trdpel. M ..u
We learn that this new line Of hotel cars IS be-
ing pushed to completion as last as the full force
Of workmen in the Pullman shops can do 1t. We
shall be certain to see them In few Weeks.-Ce-
ddr Rapids Republicdn, Feo. 1877.