The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-09
PALACE-CAR CHAT.
Some of the Boudoirs on Wheels
English Tourists and Their
Verdancy.
Philadelphia Press.


at would take day in the recital
and then fill big book. to tell of the
incidents that enter into the daily life
of Pullman car" said j. w. Smitt.
ley, the resident superintendent of the
company in Philadelphia, "and then it
would take another and a larger book
to contain what hadn't been told. As
we see it here, the subject seems al
most inexhaustible. Even after the
thousand and one stories about fat
men falling through upper berths,
yelping poodle dogs awaking passen-
gers at night, maiden ladies losing
their false teeth and curled wigs,
timid travellers shrieking for the por-
ten at every stopping place, and the
numberless stories that could be woven,
from the side fassues of these happen
ings, the half would not be told.
"A sleeping-car you must under
stand, is, for the time being, the home
Of the oc :upants. 1t is occupied for a
longer time than the ordinary railroad
car, and its passengers are brought in
to closer contact. 1t is, to make a
rather far fetched simile, a sort of
French fat on one floor, ON wheels.
Take a Pullman car running from
Philadelphia or New York to San
Franciscoand you Vii Tiad something
of the same sort OF temporary socia-
bility that exists on board an ocean
steamship. Friendships are formed,
and sometimes there are attachments
formed that--Dut, said Mr.. Smittley.
interrupting himself with smile, 81
did not intend to 60 into the question
in the abstract. l was trying to
think ola case or two that would
have something newsy about it. Let
me see, | don't think the Press has
ever said anything about that latest
caprice of Modjeska has it ? The
madam is to travel through the coun-
try in palace-car which will probably
eclipse anything of the kind ever seen
before, not excepting the well.appolnt-
ed cars of Mile. Bernhart or Mrs.
Langtrv. Modjeska is to have a pal
ace-car, in. every sense of the word, it
will be upholstered in crimson plush,
and the curtains of the berths will be
of raw silk. The berihs will be occu.
pied by the maids. Nine. Modjeska
herself will have folding bed, so in
geniously constructed as to he used as
a secretary when not required for
sleeping purposes. Besides this, the
car will be supplied with a nickel
plated bath tub-scmething entirely
new--an' the great artist will wash
her face Ia water drawn from silver
plated spigots. There is to be a buff
fet in the car complete in every de-
tail, and ingeniously economical in the
matter of space. The dining-tables
and the service will be the same as
found in any first-class hotel, and the
parlor dream of soft carpets and cost
ly bric-a-brac. Taken all in all, Nine.
Modjeska will travel from city to city
with an elegance Of appointments and
a completeness of comfort that cannot
be excelled. afoat or ashore.
cit is gradually becoming to be the
proper thing, continued the superin-
tendent, for persons who can afford it
to travel with the same comfort on
the rail as they find at their homes.
Nearly all Observation-Disclosures es.
pecially-are surprised at the magni6-
cence of our American sleeping cars,
and eagerly take advantage of them.
We often have distinguished gentle
men from the other side Of the water
many of them travelling incog.
gage a car for two weeks trip in
the west, and their ignorance of
western habits is sometimes de-
cidedly amusing. Nearly all of them
imagine that every man west of the
Rocky mountains carries a brace of
revolvers, a bowie-knife. and a deck
of cards. and spends his time in shoot
ing gentlemen who refuse to drink
with him, or in chewing tobacco and
making speeches / remember very
well an English lady who was going
through TO Chicago in Pullman car.
who left her maid in New York, be.
cause the maid was afraid she would
be scaiped by the Indians on arriving
in the garden city of the west. Yes,
sir she refused positively to run the
risk Of being captured by those horrid
savages. and begged her mistress not
to undertake the journey.
During the early part of the year a
party of Englishman started west 70
hunt buffalo in one Vi our hunting-cars
the Davy Crockett. | think, and
actually began getting into their rough
clothing and loading their rifles before
the train had reached Pittsburg.
They could hardly be made to believe