McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-09-27
Luxurious Travel.

LUXURIOUS TraVels
During the present century inventive
genius has been most actively employed
in conceiving and developing plans and
machinery to simplify and tighten the
labor of man and to give him more OF
the comforts and luxuries of life, and
in no country has such marked improve
mert in this direction been made as in
the United States. Patent has followed
patent with most marvellous rapidity,
until it would seem that, perfection
must be reached at last, and in no one
channel have such marked and impor-
tant results been attained as in the ap-
plication of steam and electricity to
machinery, and to the economies of
life generally.
These patent forces plant and har-
vest our grain, grind our flour, weave
our cloth, make our clothes and light
and warm our houses. They carry our
persons and our goods over land and
sea, and our thoughts from one end of
the earth to the other with incredible
rapidity, and by thus annihilating time
fulfill the promise of Puck-to
'sput girdle round about
the earth in forty minutes. :"
Genius having thus demonstrated its
ability to contrive means TO carry us
safely at speed of forty to sixty miles
an hour, now supplements the feat by
the invention of cars that combine
within themselves not only all the COM
forts and conveniences of beautiful
home, but the luxurious appointments
of a magnificent palace as well. Sit
ting rooms, drawing-rooms, reading
rooms, smoking-rooms, dining-rooms,
libraries, lavatories, bed-chambers, and,
in fact, every possible convenience and
necessity of life are now become mat
ter of course while travelling at speed
which, in one day, takes us as far as
full ten days weary ride in the fastest
stage line of fifty years ago. 1t is not
miraculous; trained minds, trained
hands-brain, Drawn, money-have
done it; it is simply marvellous; and a
plain statement of the crude facts is
more wonderful than the most fascina-
ting fairy tale ever written.
We have been led into this train of
thought by reading in the Chicago
Tribune notice of the opening of new
line of railroad, the Chicago and Allan
tic, which in connection with the old
and we'll known Erie, constitutes new
route from Chicago to New York. ~ g
This new line-to use metaphor-was
not incubated, but came forth full
fledged and with a plumage that sur
passes all competitors. Accepting the
fact in its efforts for business it must be
prepared to compete with old and well
established lines, it gave an order to
the Pullman company to build solid
trains of cars which should surpass any
thing of the kind that had ever been
constructed before, and if we may be-
lieve the Tribune, the order was faith
fully executed. 1.s-
Think of it, we smokers who while
away hours with the fragrant weed
while travelling! On this line you have
cars finished in cherry and maple, inlaid
with woods of darker hue; the panels,
between windows of purest plate-glass.
being richly embossed leather, and in
this room, fit for an emperor's palace,
are twenty luxuriously upholstered
easy-chairs, with tables to match in
style and finish, and at one end of the
room a refreshment buffet connected
with each seat by an electric annuncia-
tor, thus allowing a passenger to order
coffee and light refreshment without
leaving his seat.
The day coaches are marVels of ele-
gance, inviting one to recline at ease,
while the Pullman palace sleeping
coaches combine within themselves the
luxurious drawing-room by day and the
elegant bed chamber by night.
What money could do-nay, more!
What educated tastes, coupled with
skilled hands could do with the costly
woods of the tropics and the temperate
zones and with the ravishing tapestries
and upholsterings of all Europe, have
been made to pay tribute to this royal
road, to enable it to give us, while
travelling, a home simply perfect in
every detail. - -
Travel used to be the epitome of
WEAKNESS and discomfort; a journey
of thousand miles meant Nightmares
before starting and sickness at its close.
Now, the same journey over such
road as this Chicago and Atlantic is
looked forward to as holiday, as a
rest, as an educator, for eye and mind
and nerve are to De impressed with
nothing that is not restful and enjoy
able; and when the journey is ended
one is 10th to leave the charming rooms
where everything has been ccnduciveto
joyous ease.
A thousand miles from Lake Michi-
gan to New York Bay-from the fresh
to the salted sea in thirty hours, and no
necessity to set your foot upon the
ground-eat, drink, sleep-all while
the paper wheels are revolving be-