The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-04-17
The Triumph Of Art in Railroad Travel.

Year by year we note the footstep of
progress in many directions. In no direc-
tion is progress more palpable than in the
facilities offered the railroad traveller of the
present day. Looking back but few
years, we can see the toling snaillke
advance made day by day by the emigrant's
wagon, rs 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 packet then the steamer
on the lakes and rivers then the locomo-
tive engine aud the stage like car. Now
the paatial coach, and more than palatia
drawing room aud sleeping car. Yet, not
satisfied with these, that marvel of NAM
moth western corporations, the Chicago &
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. 81 am not so sure about
that said one of our friends, as he had
finished reading our first article about these
hotel coaches that are to be run on the
Omaha and California line of the Chicago
& North. Western Railway, ~ am not so
sure l would care to take my dinner in any
car, no matter how much like u palace,
while it was running at the rate of forty
miles an hour" 1t is a saying, "that the
faster you run the safer" Why, last June
it will be remembered, that this road vault
ed from Chicago to Council Bluffs, in less
than ten hours, the now celebrated "Jarrett
and Palmer Train" On that train was a
hotel car, not as large, with less wheels
under it, poorer springs, and in no way as
strong aud easy for riding in as these new
cars are to be, and yet, Mr.. Jarrett said
"while on the Chicago & North Western
line, running at an average rate of fifty
miles an hour, we took our breakfast as
comfortably as we would at Demonco S, in
New York;
1t is 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 it permanence
and solidty-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 re-
dueed to the minimum. We observed last
week that in an ordinary car the side mo-
tion and rising and falling of the car was
less than half an inch, and sometimes
scarcely perceptible. We believe it will be
found that person will sit in these hotel
cars and cat or write as comfortably
as he could at his desk or table at home;
this ace choose to call the triumph of art
IN Tdil,U0y trdrel
We learn that this new line of hotel cars
is being pushed 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 Re
publican Feb. 1877.