The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-07-25
The Triumph of Art i'm Railroad
Travel on tlse Chicago and
Northwestern Railway.

Year by year we note (says the Cedar Rapids
Republican, the footsteps of progress in many
directions. In no direction is progress more
palpabe than in the facilities afforded the rail
road Traveller of the present day. Looking back
but few years, we can see the loing snake-ike
advance made day by day by the emigrant's
wagon as it 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 aud rivers;
then the locomotive engine and the stage-ilke
car. Now the palatia coach, and more Than
paatial drawing room and sleeping car. Yet,
not satisfied with these, that marvel OF NAM
moth Western corporations, the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway, mas developed hotel cars
which, for elegance, usefulness and real COM
fort, eclipse everything Of the kind that has
heretofore been placed in service on any road.
Some CT our readers seem TO have some doubts
about the merits of hotel cars, or their superb
ority over the socalled dining car that Is run Tor
few miles on some rouds. 81 am not
about that" said one of onr friends, us he had
finished reading first article about these hotel
coaches that are TO be run on the Omaha and
California line of the Chicago and Northwestern
| Railway. " am lot sure l would care TO
take my dinner In any car, no matter how much
like palace while it is raining at the rate of
forty miles an hour" IL is a saying q" that the
faster you run the safer" Why, last June it
will be remembered that the road hauled from
Chicago to Council Bluffs, in less than ten hours,
the now celebrated Jarrett and Palmer trau
On the train was a 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 to be, and yet Mr.. Jarrett 10 reported Us
saying, THAT while on the Chicago and North
western line, running at averaged rate OF fifty
miles an hour, they took their breakfast as COM
fortabIy US they would at Dslmonico's, in New
| York"
1t is well known that the Chicago and North
western Railway is built over thu most favor
able line as to grades that could be found be-
tween Chicago and the Missouri river. with but
few curves. Its track is mostly OF heavy steel
rail, gravel baasted, with wide roadway. giving
it permanence and soiidity 1t Is as smooth as
a 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
u minimum. We observed lately that in an
ordinary car the inside motion and rising aud
falling of the car was less than half an inch and
sometimes scarcely perceptibe. We believe it
will be found that person will sit in these hotel
cars and eat or write us comfortably as they
could ut his desk or table at home. This we
choose to call the triumph of art in railway travel
We learn that this new line OF hotel cars is
being pushed to completion "a fast as the full
force of workmen in the Pullman shops Can dc
it. We shall be certain to see them in few
weeks