The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-10-15

to accommodate the towns between
the points, st. Petersburg and Mos.
COW. The Car took down his map,
picked up a rule and pencil-then
drew n line straight from point to
point--'Thot is the line he said,
'to build the road between my capi-
tai cities on. If other towns want
to use my road, let them come to
it. This is the story, as | heard it
forty years ago. Perhaps it isn't
true--the best of stories, histories,
too, quite often aren't; but the
road is really very straight and very
smooth, and makes you feel at per-
feet ease. 1t was built by the
Wnans folks at Baltimore, and the
roads and stations and the cars are
surely very fine. The first class
express cost SO, including state
room in sleeping-car, about the same
as on our American lines for like
accommodations. | may have said
it before, but will say it again by
way of assent, underscored, that
these Russian sleepers are better
than our Pullman-ln almost every
way. They are lighter-about half
the haul per person that our sleepers
have. They are more comfortable
as riding coaches-having easier
seats and backs. They are in COM
partments, for two or four, arranged
with doors between the single rooms
as hotel bedrooms are. The beds
are softer, and are not made upon
the seats you've set on all day and
had your dirty feet upon; but the
seat revolves on central pivots, and
when the bed is made the side you
sat on goes down underneath the
under side, a nice spring-bottom
mattress, comes on top, on which
nice hair mattress is. spread, with
snowy linen, pillows large and soft
and thick, warm blankets, if you
please. The broad, thick cushion
that in the daytime forms the back
OF your sumptuous seat, springs
overhead, and forms the basis for
the upper berth.
"Now go to bed. You, yourself
and wife; young ladies travelling.
The door is closed, the room is to
yourselves. How do you get into the
up-high upper berth? Rush out
and call the porter to bring his dirty
step-laddcr-leave his work and
bring it quick! Not at ALL You
see the neat little table at the head
of the lower bed? 1t is for coffee,
to write upon, play cards or domi-
noes. Fold its two leaves, bringing
each on top; pull out two sliding
steps below-there is your clean
carpet-stepper, step-ladder-up you
90 and off you go TO bed and sleep.
1t stays there to walk down upon,
and when quite out of use you push
it through slots quite to the corner
out of, the way. 1t is a more
comfortable, more decent, more
healthy car. All drafts are quite
cut off, the passage-wav is along
the side: not in the middle of the
car, and passengers may come and
90, you are not bothered by them.
AT either end of the well-lighted
passage are ample toilet-rooms with
all conveniences.
"lou may not care to ride in
close compartment car during the
day, for You really want to see
everybody who comes aboard or
leaves; to have the door flying open
at your back; to have folks crowd
ing by you with bundles, grips, UNI
brellas, canes. You would be near
the peanut iiend and have him polk
ing stale stuff and fruit beneath your
nose full forty times a day, or load
ing down your seat with printed
trash called books by courtesy.
You rather like all this-perhaps-
but when night comes on you would
prefer to go off by yourself or selves
and shut the door and shade the
lights, and having none to tramp
your toes, or punch your ribs, or
drag your frowsy curtains round,
get leisurely into bed, away from
squalls and sleepless folks, who sit
and talk, or such as murder sleep
with snores and, like Christian, 90
right off to sleep. - San Francisco
Bulletin.