The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-05-10
MISCELLANY.
SLEEPING AND paLAoE CARS.
How Woodruff and Pullman Have Aduninis-
tered TO she Comfort of Travellers.

AS early as 1860 sleeping cars were run
under the patents of the late Jonas Wood
ruff by the Central Transportation Company.
These patents passed into the possession
Of Pullman's Palace Car Company, which
has paid royalty to the Central Transpor-
tation Company Before his death Mr.
Woodruff constructed a new model for sleep
ing cars, which obviated the tcp-heaviness
caused by storing the bedding under the
roof, by placing it in cellar underneath the
seats of the car. The upper berth fits in
against the body of the car, and is
drawn out on brackets. Sleepers cost 3d.
600 each. Drawing-room or day cars cost
about $4,000. There are no patents on the
day cars, as they are simply ordinary cars
with easy seats. But there are. patents ON
peculiar styles of easy seats. The Wood
ruff Sleeping Parlor Coach Company has a
capital stock of 800, 600, and now run 100
cars, all sleepers. 1t employs about 800
men III its new car shops at Swissvale near
Pittsburg Pa. Formerly its cars were built
mostly at Wilmington, Del Its routes now
cover the c., c., G. and l. Railroad, known
as the OBJ line, making connection, by ar
rangement with the Wagner Company, from
New York to st. Louis. The Woodruff cars
also run on the st. Louis aud Keokuk, Lou
isville and Chicago. Ohio and Evansville,
Chicago and Wisconsin, and Manhattan
Beach roads One style of the parlor cars
is familiar to all who have been to Coney
Island The company divides its profits
with the roads on which its cars are used.
The main idea of the palace car business
originally was that the railroad companies
would take on the palace cars free because
they themselves would save the cost of roll
ing stock. But the competition among
palace car companies has becomes SO great,
and the profits of palace cars so enormous
that several railroad companies have under
taken to build their own cars The Wood
ruff companies anticipates this tendency by
its plan of dividing profits. The President
of the company is Frank Rahm, and John
G. Paul is Superintendent of the eastern
business. Arrangements are in progress to
put the cars on the Long Island Railroad
for summer travel.
In the mind of the public the idea of pal !
ace travel is almost always associated with
the name Of George M. Pullman, who, with
his associates, has thus far monopolzed q
very large share of the palace car building
business and has accumulated princely
fortune. The first palace car he built was
built in 1868 for the Chicago and Alton Rail !
road, at a cost of Sis, 900. 1t is yet in use,
and is named ''The Pioneer" Pullman's I
Palace Car Company now runs 800 cars, and /
covers between 40 900 and 10000 miles of /
railroad in this country. For five or six !
years it has had palace cars running in Eng
land, Scotland, and Italy also, and is now
building O large number of cars for foreign
railroads. Thee cars built about the time of the
organization OF the company, in 1867, cost
from $25, 900 to $50, 900. They had sixteen
wheels. Subsequently the size was reduced,
and the cost was reduced to $4,000, and
from 1864 to 1873 to $l4, 900, but the prog
ress Of the arts has secured greater finish
and beauty than ever. The company is now
building about 1875 new cars. Its routes in
this country are over the Erie, Pennsylvania,
Chicago, Burlington aud Quincy, Atchison,
and Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Chicago and
Northwestern, Rock Island aud other roads.
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