The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-23
THE DAILY ARGUS.
pULLMAN Yacht CARS.

Uncle Rufus Hatch has some good and
practical ideas in his head. Let them
sell their yachts, he says. ''and with the
proceeds of the sale procure a Pullman
yacht car"
The London Telegraph says that yachts
upon wheels of this description can be made
to suit various tastes. They may be large
or small capable of accommodating many
or few, magniflCently furnished and decora-
ted or plainly caparisoned-in short, man
may spend upon one of them any sum,
from three thousand to ten thousand
pounds. If, III addition to his own car,
the enterprising traveller has another made
to carry his horses and couple of traps
along with him, it VIII be easy for him to
make an excursion to the West in summer
and autumn, and to the South in winter
which will enable him to see new sights
and to dream new dreams.
It was natural that Mr. Hatch should
confne himself to the sights which
portion of his own native land.
Americans can sail, he says, through
oceans of wheat in their yachting
ca :" can tr rse "the plains, and see
them blooming like a rose; and come
back with a clearer idea of distance and
of magnitude than they would ever get by
cruising around the lightship." 1t cannot
be denied that Americans abound who
have seen every fashionable watering place
in Europe, bat hardly know where Longs
Peak or Pixies PEAK are to be found, when
flattering strangers tell them that Switzer-
land has nothing finer than these twin 81
ants of the western world. In a private
palace car of the kind recommended by
4 sFNvsf
of hardship to undergo, and if it seemed
good to him. it's owner might hire his own
locomotive from the company whose line
he was using To Englshmen, however.
who have travelled IN India it cannot but
occur that yacht car Of this description
might be advantageously used in other
parts of the world no less than in North
America Exclusive of Alaska which is
as vet without railways, there are three
States in the American Union-Texas,
California and Dakota-which have an
area of more than one hundred and fifty
thousand square miles apiece There are
five more--Nevada, Colorado, Montana,
New Mexico, and ArlZona-each
Of which has an area of more than one
hu ndred thousand square miles. Scattered
over these boundless distances there are
scenes as lovely as anything which Europe
can show, but hitherto they have only been
accessible to travellers who had health and
vigor enough to rough it. The palace
Yacht car, however, would enable its occu-
pants to carry with them what Baltic Mich
| oil Jarvie called 1.-The comforts CT the Saul
| market @ Glasgow wherever they went.
| Why should not some young and opulent
| English sportsman borrow the idea and
| traverse Hindostan after the fashion sug-
| gested by Mr. Hatch, in a yacht upon
| wheels? The country from the Himalayas
| to Cape Comorin is as vast as a score OF
| the American states combined, and abounds
with big game of highly diversified de-
scriptioTi North America, even if its griz-
zly bears are borne in mind, has no quarry
| which it more gratifies and repays gen
| uine sportsman to kill than maneatIng
| tiger It is little more than half century
| since the first railroad was opened IN Eng
| land. Who can say whether, before an
| other half century shall have passed away,
| some of our successors may not be found
| to Law down railroads of their own in the
midst Of vast wild districts, in which big
game is artifcially preserved? If the for
| tunes already acquired by some three or
| four Americans continue to increase IN the
| future, it is impossible to say what pleas
ures the ingenuity of man may not devise
| for the amusement Of democratic Gree
suses who are yet to come.