The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-03-29

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) Dsscripelen q the superb Car
new bOo0g COmeGroctcd for
tho ssI)0necP" Line.
For some time we have heard hint.
of . lire Of hotel cars for the Omahs
and California line of the Chicago 4
North Western Railway. When
asked about their cars, the officers
have uniformly evaded direct reply.
Our .'reportorial instincts" taught US
to investigate for ourselves. We have
done 20, and are now enabled to state
positively that such line will be
started In the early spring, and that
the cars arc now being built. The
fact will 30 no longer q secret after
this days paper gets before the pub
lie.
Four of the most magnificent hotel
cars that have been built ony,~here
are now being constructed by the
Pullman Palace Car company expressly
| for this line. These oars will be sixty
six feet long, ten feet wide and ten
feet high, with twelve sections, one
drawing-room with table room for
six persons and one state room, be-
sides the kitchen, china closet, dress
ing room, etc. The interior will be
finished with black and white walnut
mahogany, French ash, and curled
maple, the place of the usual head
Innings being filled in with foreign
polished woods: the pannels between
the windows will be of California
laural and other California woods; the
lamp fixtures, window fastenings door
hardware, ETC., will be of triple plated
silver. The upholster of the seats is
to be of rich but plain reps, correspond
ing and harmonizing with the wood
finish of the sides and roof Of the cars.
Between each set Of seats is space for
table that will accommodate four per-
sons comfortably, but as rule are
not expected to seat more than two
persons. The glass and china ware
for the tables are now being made at
Dresden, Germany, from patterns
selected from the Royal Dresden ex-
hibit that was at the Centennial Expo
sition and so greatly admired. Each
piece of silyer-wars, glassware and
china-ware will have the monogram
of the Chicago 4 North Western road |
marked thereon. The kitchen of the
cars will be so arranged that no fumes
from the cooking vands can reach the
occupants Of the berths. On each ear
will be a steward, two cooks, three
walters and chaimbermaid to wait
upon lady patrons. 1t is the intention
Of the company to furnish the best
meals that money can buy, and choice
wines and cigars will be attainabls by
those desiring those luxuries.
Those hotel cars will leave Chicago
on tho California Express, and run
to the Missouri river. On
the west-bound train, dinner, supper
and breakfast will be served The
east bound hotel ears well leave Omaha
On the Atlantic Express" each day,
In the afternoon. On this train sup \,
per, breakfast and dinner will be sery-
ed. Thus passengers bound in Gather |
direction will be enabled to have all {
their meals en- route and vet not leave
heir palatial travelling parlor. G
The only objection that has been I
'aissd against the use of hotel cars has Q
,een connected with the odors Of the
As We said before, this, in
hese cars, will be entirely obviated;
10 person, no matter how particular !
le or she may be, will have cause to
make any objections on this score. In :
he dining car you merely get your 6
meals, and as seon as you are through
ating you are showed out and started e
or the coach or sleeper, SO as to make
DOM for some other traveller who de- a
Tres your place. While in these ho- q
Ell cars your berth will be secured Q
trough, you will own it absolutely .
'r the length of your trip, a. it will q
e your own for lounging. sitting, a
|eeping, and eating purposes, as much ?
5 your own seat in your own house !
IS 1t is not generally known, dining
ars are never run over the entire
'ngth Of any route; they are taken
and set Oft of the train at stated
heal times, while these hotel cars will
e made part Of the train and run
arough in the same way as the regu-
n sleeping car.
On the admirable steel rail that is
ow laid on the Chicago X North
Western Railway, these elegant, six ,
hotel cars will ride as
Asy and with as little noise or ocilla-
ION As balloon that floats serenely
trough the air; and we believe it
viii be found to be result that thou
ands will flock to this pioneer
line" whs have hitherto gone by
ONE other route.
With these and other improvements
he people of Cedar Rapids are very
argsly interested and we believe will
DIN with us in congratulating the pro-
Irsssive management of this road in
his its most advanced step; and unite
with US in saying the Chicago Il
North Western Railway has become
come the foremost Of all the West
These hotel cars will be placed in
service about March lst, ls77.-Re-
publican, Dec. ED, 1876.