The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-03-30

THE TRIUMPH OF ART In RAILROAD
TRAvEL.-Year by year we note the foot
steps 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 q
few years, we can see the toiling sEail-like
advance made day by day by the emil
grants wagon, as it was slowly but surely
drawn toward sundown by the patient OK,
or the slowly moving farm horse; then
came the old fashioned stage coach follow
ing closely. we had the canal packet; then
| the steamer on the lakes and rivers; then
the locomotive engine and the stage like
car. Now the palatial coach, and moro
| than palatial drawing room and sleeping
car Yet. not satisfied with these, that
marvel of mammoth western corporations.
the Chicago 6S North Western Railway. as
we stated some weeks ago, has developed
| hotel cars that will. for elegance, useful.
ness 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 Sor a few
| miles on some reads. II am not SO sure
about that. : said one of our friends, as he
| had finished reading our first article about
1 these hotel coaches that are to be run on
| the Omaha and California line of the Chi
| eago 81 N oPth-W Western Railway, 81 am not
| so 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.o 1t is saving. ssthat the
faster you run the safer.'' Why, last June.
it will be remembered, that this road haul.
ed from Chicago TO Council Bluffs, in less,
than that ten hours, the now celebrated
Jarrett and Palmer Irain-S On that,
train was hotel car, not as large, with
less wheels under ID, poorer springs, and In
no way as strong aud easy for riding In as.
these new cars are to be, and yet Mr.. jar
rett said .swhile on the Chicago q North
: Western line, running at an average rate OF
fifty miles an hour, we took our breakfast
as comfortably as we would at Delmop1-
cos in New York" ("
, North Western Railway is built over tho.
most favorable line as to grades that could
be found between Chicago and the Missouri
. | River, with but few curves; its track Is,
i mostly of heavy steel rail, gravel baiiasted,
with wide roadway, giving it pernlauenco
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 .sbouncing' and oscillation is reduced
. to the minimum. We observed last week
that i'll an ordinary ear the side motion and
, rising and falling OF the car was less than
! half an inch, and sometimes scarcely peF-
ceptible. We believe it will be found that
; person will sit IN these hotel cars and eat
or scrite as comfortably as he could &C hiR
5 desk or table at home this sre choose to c0lk
/ the tri,anph Of art IN rdslscdg trdreg.
! We learn that this new line OF hotel cars
is being pushed to completion.as fastas the
: full force of workmen in the Pullman shops
can do it. We shall be certain tosee them
in few weeks. Cedar Rapfsss ReFsl1g lGszu,
FEB. 1877.