Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-06-10

As persons. The willingness of wealthy travel
ers to pay for plenty of room often causes Q
sleeping car to be run half full.
Mr.. wagner claims to have Qot M the first
drawing-room car for day travel. These are
cars OF ordinary size, fitted up with costly inte-
riors. and provided with easy chairs and private
compartments. They cost about 412 1000. The
nrst cars OF this pattern. the Highlander
Of the Wagner cars have been
built at Wilmington, Del, Dayton, Ohio. the
Jones Car Works, Schenectady. and by Gilbert,
Bush i Co., Troy. The Wagner company has
carpet, coo pieces Of linen, 5000 blankets, at
% pound, supply OF damask berth curtains,
at $50 pair, and 5000 huckabuck towels
There are twelve Allen paper wheels under each
car. costing S75 car. The interior work of the
sleeping cars cost "a. 500 car. Each car is
fitted with aut Omatc brakes and Millers safety
platforms. Ia heated by circulating hot water
and Is lighted by oil lamps. The parlor day cars
nave single seats for thirty persons.
small private room for two, private room for
four. a smoking room, and two toilet rooms.
me sleeping coaches have twelve sections. or
beds Tor ty-fOur persons, stateroom for three
and the ordinary accessory rooms.
me New York and New Haven railroad COM
pany has twenty-five drawing-roOm cars and
fourteen sleepers running on its road between
New York and Boston. All these cars were
built In the cOmpany's shops at New Haven, at
an average cost of about $4,000. The sleepers
room cars since 1867. Wagner cars run over
this line on the Shore route, and one train, con-
Meeting at Hartford with the New London rail-
road, has Pullman cars. The first drawing
room cars built by the company were two Eng
llsh coaches. that ran for three wears between
New York and Boston On these coaches there
were compartments entered from the side, seat
Ing eight persons each. The ends were built
with round corners like coupe. These cars
were burned up, to the great relief of the COM
rod
taken their places.
Speaking Of the palace cars Of this road.
superintendent Schofeld said recently: "Our
cars are not anybody's patent. They are our
own. we nave built them as the public con-
venience required. They are named after gov
ernors OF Connecticut Ingersoll, Jewett, Eng
fish, Holly, Hawley and so on. When the names
OF governors gave out we used the names Of
connecticut cities. We find the demand for
palace cars for night and day travel increasing
Commercial travellers now want to travel in
luxury. We have regular customers who have
their favOrite cars. There is one man who has
Deen travelling over our road twice q month for
fourteen years, between New York and Boston
he mas MS regular car, and is as much at home
there as IN his own house. The servants of the
company are as familiar to him as his own SER
wants and as attentive. We have many repu-
lar customers like that. We have a compart-
ment car, part OF which may be used by the
general public like an ordinary passenger car.
The compartment is strictly private. A gentle
man recently brought his sick wife in this car
from BrattlebOro. Vermont, at q cost of $50
extra, with comfort almost equal to that Of
Cen Garfield in his journey from Washington to
EiberOn. 1t is very common thing for special
arrangements to be made for carrying sick per-
sons In privacy and comfort. Mrs W. w. Aston
was recently carried east over our road when
she was confined to bed by Illness
ABOUT year ago the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad company, which had previously per-
mltted the Pullman cars to run over their road,
concluded to use only parlOr and sleeping cars
OF their own. This led to litigation with Pull
man Palace Car company. Mr.. Pullman claims
that his patents have been infringed. The rail-
road company claims that it has the right to use
us new cars. and, pending the lawsuits, con-
tlnues to use them. One preliminary suit in
Baltimore has been decided in the railroad COM
pany's favor. Another suit Is pending in Chi
cage. Inc new Baltimore and Ohio sleepers are
built In the company's shops at Dayton, Ohio,
ana very much resemble the ordinary Pullman
cars They are of various patterns Some have
twelve sections and others fourteen. About
sm 1n w. have been built, and they cost from
$4,000 to $15, 600. Only a few days ago these
cars began to run to ST. Louis The extra fare
for the sleepers is "a to Cincinnati, $5 to Chi
cagO and $6 to st. Louis. These cars are now
run for the Baltimore and Ohio road over the
Jersey City.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul rail-
road company run palace cars Of their own
manufacture, but pay royalty to Pullman's com
pany.
A., Over the Savannah, Florida and Western route
the Layton cars are used They resemble the
Pullman cars, but are not 80 deliberately finished.
On this route there are many dining cars and
ordinary cars fitted up with easy chairs and re-
ginning chairs, center tables and smoking rooms.
The run from Washington to Jacksonville takes
thirty hours. A double berth, or one section.
rom washington to Charleston Junction, costs
$5.3c, and parlor car from the junction to
Jacksonville $1.5O The run from New York to
Florida can be made In forty-sx hours very
comfortably.
Barnum, Bailey Il Hutchinson own $50 cars.
which they use for transporting their great
show all over the United States They have
special rates from the railroad companies, and
Their troupes live in the cars. well-known
wall street man last summer hired a Pullman
car for summer trip of party of fourteen to
san francisco and return. Everything was fur
nlshed Dy Pullman's company. The travellers
were switched off at any station they selected,
ate and slept In the cars, and were provided
day for the trip. Col. MaplesOn generally takes
nVe drawing-rOOm cars for his trip, with his
opera troupe. Adelina Patti recently hired a
drawlng-rOOm car for ten days. Edwin Booth
frequently engages special car for his route
The worcester excursion company, newly or
gained, undertakes to furnish fully equipped
cars with arrangements for parties of any size to
travel day and night fer any length Of time, and
Win Ill the cOnVenlenceS OF hotel.
The directors cars on all the principal rail-
roads are proverbially elegant. Probably the
most complete is the one belonging to President
Bliss, Of the Boston and Albany road. which
v was recently used by the Jay Gould party in an
eastern excursion. The car is fitted up with q
kitchen, q refrigerator, lavatory, a smoking
room, pantries, and fine main saloon. The
oeds IN the main saloon are concealed in the
daytime by folding against the side of the car.
There Is large business room supplied with
desks and tables, 50 that the president NAV
carry his office from one end Of the line to the
other.
A novelty in Homestead cars is owned by
DR.. Dudley, q civil engineer, who has invented
method Of recording profile map OF q rail-
road while his Car is in motion. By a very inge-
NOUS continuance all the bumps and inequali-
ties OF the road are recorded as the train pro-
ceeds The car was originally built for the Phila-
delphia and Wilmington road, but has gradu-
ally won it's way into use on many other roads
for purposes of inspection. The doctor and his
wife live in the car and his long rolls of manila
paper maps have come to be an important tac-
tor in railroad archives
MI. Blaine illustrates q Point
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