Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-18
AMERICA= CARS IN EuR0Pr.
Their Popularity Increasing In
England and on the Continent.

The use of American drawing room
and sleeping cars in England and
other parts Of Europe is extending,
and there is every reason to believe
that they will be generally adopted by
the railways on the other side. Mr..
George Pullman, of Chicago, the
President of the Pullman Palace Car
Company, will sail for Europe this
week in the Arizona. AT the Wind
sor Hotel, where he is stopping, be
said last evening that American cars
were steadily growing in favor in
England and elsewhere, and he
thought they would create a complete
revolution in travel in Europe. Fifty
Pullman cars. representing SO, 900 in
value, were at present running on for
eign roads. The English people were
slow to adopt new things, but since
Pullman cars were put on the Mid
land railway in 1873, at the sohcita-
ton ofthe general manager, who came
to this country and made a trip to Cal
fornia in one of them, there had been
an increasing demand for them. They
were now running on the Midland,
the Great Northern, the North Brit.
ish, the London, Brighton & South
Coast, and on the East India mail
route between Bologne and Brindisi.
Cars were being built for the Western
railway in France, which would be the
first introduced in that country. The
cars we're constructed at the shops in
Detroit, Mich, shipped in sections,
and put together at the company
shops in Derby, England. A cable
dispatch was received yesterday pro-
posing contracts for cars to run on
leading roads in Italy. Dir. Pullman
said he should consider the PROPOSE
ton when he arrived in England.
The first purely American train in
Europe was started a short time ago.
It is known as the Pullman limited
express, and consists entirely of Pull
man cars. 1t makes four trips a day
between London aud Brighton, on the
London, Brighton & South Coast
railroad, and is we'll patronized. The
charges are about the same as they are
in this country. In other trains than
the Pullman limited express the Pull
man cars are coupled with the regular
carriages. A special feature OF the
Pullman train is its completeness, and
in this respect it excels the fast train
composed of Pullman ears between
New York and Washington. 1t i;
supplied with a restaurant, news
stand, smoking room, and other con
veuiences. A little competition, il
it will bear the term, has sprung
up and owes its origin tt
American enterprise. The London
& Northwestern railway has made
some changes In its regular car.
riages so as to provide sleeping accom-.
modations, which are deficient in NAM
respects and do not compare with ele
gance and comfort afforded by Ameri
can cars. On the continent the Bel
gian Company, as it is known, is run
ming a number Of sleeping cars. Tit
sleeping arrangements are made tt
conform to the standard carriges useC
on contin tai railways, and they arr
liking in many important details. The
demand for Pullman cars in Europe
Mr.. Pullman said, had already
reached large proportions, and wa
continually increasing The Ameri
can plan of drsWing-room andsleepinl
cars afforded comforts that the pre-
vailing style Of carriages never coulC
be made to afford, and people were re,
~alizing it, The better class ~oftravelerI
patronized the Pullman cars, anG
there was everything to indicate tina
any prejudices against these tina
might have existed had been removed
Mr.. Pullman will join his family il
Paris and return during the first wsel
in April.