, 1884-12-11

The old days when man was content
with transportation pure and simple, and
merely grumbled at. dirty, dusty, stuffy
cars and the wayside restaurant, as disa-
greeable but necessary incidents Of his
journey are gone forever. The travelling
public now demand ~comfortsand conven-
fences that were then 1nthought-oflux-
uries, and enterprising railroads hasten to
supply them, as inducements to travel.
On a well-appointed road like the Michi-
gan Central. therefore, one may travel and
live in comfort as in ones chosen inn, re-
posing by night in a sumptuous palace
sleeping car, with lavatories, drawing
room and smoking-room, breakfast, dine
and sup in a luxurious dining car, where
the accomplished chef supplies all the
delicacies of the season at a merely nomi-
nal charge, read the papers, lounge, chat
and enjoy the Aeeting vistas of varied
scenery, and all the while go speeding
safely ON at the rate of fifty miles an hour
by day and by night. The transformations
wrought by Alladin's lamp were not more
wonderful.
Taking the Michigan Central again for
III text, as it has never spared pains nor
expense to add to the comforts, conven-
fences and solid attractions of its road,
note the brief enumerations of but n few
of its principal through car arrangements.
Do you wish to go from our Garden City
of the Lakes to Boston ? You may take
a palace car at $40 p. m. and go right
through without change, making faster
time By more than three hours than by
any other route. Or you can leave at
1890 p. M, on the Detroit sleeper,
changing at that city to the rev Detroit
and Boston line, recently added; or take
the Syracuse sleeper at 1855 a. IN, and at
that city change to the parlor car running
through TO Boston without change. Tito
New York, palace sleeping cars leave on
the fast New York Express at 4:l5 p. IN,
with dining cars serving all meals through
to New York, and at $40 p. M, and
1920 p. m. or again, take the palace
sleeping car at 8:55 a. m, for Syracuse,
and there change to the parlor ear for
New York. If business or pleasure takes
you by the great Canadian scenic route,
the fast New York Express has a palace
sleeping car running through to Toronto,
and connecting at Toronto Junction with
parlor cars for Montreal via Ottawa, the
capital of the Dominion. Other palace
sleeping and ~drawing-room cars run from
Chicago to Grand Rapids, Muskegon,
Saginaw, Bay City, Detroit, Niagara Falls
and Buffalo, running through on fast
time without change.
And so from Toledo run these palatial
coaches. sleeping and drawing room,
through to Buffalo. From Detroit they
run westward to Chicago and to Grand
Rapids; ~northward to Saginaw, Bay City
and Mackinaw; southwark to Toledo and
CincinpAti, and eastward to Niagara
Falls, Buffalo, Syracuse, New York and
Boston The latter line is newly added,
and is composed of elegant coaches of the
latest designs, containing every device for
comfort, convenience and safety that
great ingenuity and long practical ex-
perience could suggest, and lavish expen-
diture produce.
All these eastward lines to Buffalo,
Syracuse, Boston and New York, run via
Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Nj
agara Falls, N. Y, stopping at Falls
View, on the brink of the Horse Shoe
Fall. where the finest views Of the Falls
are obtained: running over the steel
double track Cantilever bridge in front of
the Falls, and connecting in union depots
at Suspension Bridge and Buffalo with
the great four track New York Central
4 Hudson River Railroad. Truly the
Michigan Central is not only 1.-The Nj
agara Falls Route" and THE Great
East and West Highway, but also the
route that insures the greatest degree of
comfort and safety.