Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-04-18
The Triumph Of Art ia fai road
Travel.

Yer by year we note the footsteps
of orogress in many directions. In
no direction is progress more palDa.
bic than ia .he facilities offered the
railroad traveller OF the pres mt day
Looking back but few years, We car
see the toiIing snail.iike advance
made day by day 10y the enigr"n's
waGon. as it was slowly but surrey
drawn toward sundown by the
patient OK, or the slowly moving farm
horse: then came the old fashioned
stage couch; following closely we
had the canal packet; then the steam
er on the lakes and rivers; then the
locomotive engine and the stage like
car. NoRi the palatial coach, and
more than palatial drawing room and
sleeping car. Yet, not satisfied with
these, that marvel of western corpo-
rstions, the Chicago 8 Northwestern
Railway, as we stated some weeks
ago, has developed hotel cars that
will, for elegance, usefulness 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 60 sure
about that" said one of our friends,
a. be had finished reading our 6rst
article about these hotel coaches that
are to be run on the Omaha and Cali
tornia line of the Chicago d North
western Railway. 81 an not 90 sure
! would care to take my dinner In
any car, no matter how much like
palace, while it was running at the
rate of forty miles an hour" 1t is q
saying, "that the faster you run the
safer" Why, last June It will be re-
membered, that this road hauled from
Chicago to Council Bluifs, 10 less than
ten hours, the now celebrated "Jar-
sstt b Palmer tram" On the train
was . hotel car, not a. large, with
less wheels under It. poorer springs,
and In m way - strong and easy for
riding IN a. these new cars are to be,
and yet, Mr.. Jarrett said "while on
the Chicago 4 Northwestern line,
running at an average rate Of fifty
miles an hour, we took our breakfast
% comfortably a. we would at Del
monico's, in New York"
II 10 we'll known that the Chicago
& Northwestern Railway Is built
over the most favorable line rs 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 it pernanence
and eolidity-it 10 a. smooth as q
floor; all its cars strong. with plenty
OF wheels under them, and with
springs 90 adjusted that the usual
''bsuncing" and oscillation is reduced
to the minimum. We observed last
week that 10 an ordinary car the side
motion and rising and falling Of toe
car was less than half An inch, and
somstimes scarcely percepuble. We
bellev 1t will be found that per-
son will sit in these hotel cars and eat
or write as comfortably AS he could
at his desk or table at home this we
choose to call tire triumph of art in
railway travel.
We learn tnat this new line of hotel
cars Is being pashed to completion as
fast as the full force OF workmen in
the Pullman shops can do it. We
shall be certain to see them in few
weeks.-(Cedar Rapids Republican,
March, 1877.