The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-05-30
The Merits Of The yestlbule Car,

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! From the Rsw York Times. May 23d, 1888.
Speaking Of the injunction in favor OF
the Pullman Company, restraining the
Wagner people from the use of the vesti.
bule attachment, prominent railroad
man said the other day: "The yestibule
attachment Is one of the most important
improvements of the age toward the per-
lection of absolute comfort in passenger
car construction. Several years ago.
when the dining car was introduced and
the practice of preparing and serving
meals on railway trains inaugurated, il
was found that timid people, especially
ladies and inyalids, experienced great diff
hculty in passing from their seats 10 the
sleeper to The dining car when the train
was running at high rate of speed. The
| open platforms between the cars formed
n gulf over which they feared To attempt
passage In fine weather and which In wind
or storm, OF both, was impossible to PEG.
| pie with delicate constitutions. IL the
| dining car system was to be SUCCESS.
This objection must DO overcome, aud the
Pullman people set themselves the task
of bridging the chasm. In order to nc.
complisl this end they evolved and de.
veloped the idea of the vestibule. and In
bringing 1t into successful usage the rail
way companies, as we'll as their patrons.
lind that the original difficulty has not
only been completely overcome, but that
a great many other marked ADVANTAGES
have been secured in the introduction of
the vestibule. One striking feature il
the additional strength created and dis.
tribnted over the entire train by the close
lifting of the coaches to one another and
the consequently increased power to with |
stand the shock of a collision. Tele-
scopipg is hardly possible Ia well. eauip.
ped yestibule train, from the simple fact
that the steel frames arrest the force
which would drive one car into another. |
The steadier motion with which tho close. |
ly-united factors Of the train are endow- |
ed will be readily recognized as most
beneficial result. This steadiness Is no. |
ticeable at once, but particularly percepti- |
BILE to tho occupants of upper bertbs or |
those who, having tried to read or write
10 the ordinary Car, undertake to do so in |
vestibule train. The vestibules, beside
protecting the passengers IN passing from
end to end Of the train, serve the purpose
OF storm doors to residence, aud pre-
vent the sudden drafts which the opening
OF an ordinary car door always creates.
Another feature, which is prominent from
a social standpoint, is the deadening of
the noise made BY the rapid revolution of
the wheels over the rails, SO that CONVEX
sation may be carried on without in any
way strainiug the voice
"Tbe constructors of these cars 'builed
wiser than they knew, and succeeded in
abolishing many of the petty annoyances
that beset tho railway traveller, even on
the best,equipped roads.
These cars, he continued, fare as far
superior to tho ordinary Goa oh as the
Pullman is to the old fashioned passenger
car. They enhance 10 great degree the
pleasure and comfort of travel and. as
the learned judge remarked in the deci.
sion above referred to, they must have
proved startling and successful iunoya.
tion or competing company would not
have been so prompt la initiating them.
The Pennsylvania New York and Chi. |
cago Limited Express was the pioneer
vestibnle train, and the enormous popular
ity 1t has won Is the best evidence OF pub.
lie appreciates Of its merits.