The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
The Triumph Of Art i'm
Railroad Travel.

Year by year We note the footsteps OF pro-
gress IN many directions. In Nc direction Is
progress more papable than in the facilities
offered the railroad traveller OF the present day.
LOOKING back but few years, wo can see the
toiling, snail like advance made day by day by
the emigrant5 wagon as 1t was slowly but sure
ly drawn toward shutdown by the patient OK or
the slowly moving farm horse. Then came the
old-fashloDed stage coach Following closely,
we had the canal packet, then the steamers on
the lakes and rivers, then the locomotive en-
gne and the stage like car. Now, the palatial
coach and more than palatal drawing room
and sleeping car. Yet, not satisfied with these,
that marvel OF mammoth western corporations,
the Chlcsgo II 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.
Sons Of our readers seem TO have doubts about
the merits OF hotel cars, or their superiority
over the so-cailed dining car. that Is run for
few miles on some roads. II am not sure
about that said one OF our friends, as he bad
finished reading our first article about these
hotel coaches that are to be run on the Omaha
and California line OF the Chicago x Northwest
ern Railway, 81 am not so sure would care to
take my dinner III any car, no matter how much
ike palace, Whine il was running at the rate OF
forty miles an hour" II "a q saving that 1.-THE
faster you run the safer" Why Just last June
II will be remembered. this road hauled from
chicago 10 COUNCIL BIuE g. IN less than ten hours,
the now celebrated Jarrett " Palmer Train"
On that train was hotel car, not as large, with
less wheels under 1t, poorer springs, and IN no
way as strong and easy for riding ia as these
new cars are to be, and vet, Mr.. Jarrett said,
"while on the Chicago 4 North Western line,
running at an average speed of fifty miles an
hour, we took our breakfast as comfortably as
we could have done at Delmonico's, in New
YORK."
II Is we'll known that the Chicago & North
Western Railway is built over the most favora-
BILE line, as 70 grades, that could be found be-
tween Chicago and the Missouri River, with but
few curves Its track is mostly OF heavy steal
rail- gravel ballasted, with wide roadway, giving
it permanence and solIdity-t is as smooth rs
floor; all its cars strong with plenty OF wheele
under them. and with springs 30 adjusted that
the usual bouncing" and oscillation 10 reduced
TO the minimum. We observed last week that
in an ordinary car the side motion and raising
and falling OF the car was less than half an
lnch and sometimes scarcely perceptibe. We
believe It will be found that person will sit
IN these hotel cars and eat or write as comfort
ably as he could at his desk or table at home
this We choose to call the triumph Of art In
railway travel.
We learn that this new limo Of hotel cars is
being pushed TO completion az fast as the full
force ot workmeD IN the Pullman shops can do
IT. We shall be certain to see them in few
weeks.--Cedsr Rapids Iowa. Republican, Feb.
10TH 1877.