The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-06-01
The Merits orrhe ve.,ihuIe Car.


The VI erIts of the vestibuIe Car
Speaking Of the Injunction in favor OF the
Pullman Company, restraining the Wagner
people from the use OF the yestibuIe at
tachment, q prominent railroad man said
the other day: 1.-The vestIbule attachment
Is one OF the most important improvements
of the age toward the perfection Of absolute
comfort IN passenger car construction
Several years ago. when the dining car was
introduced and the practice of preparing
and sery ing meals on railway trains in
augurated, it was found that timid people
especially ladies and invaiids, experienced
great difficulty in passing from their seats
IN the sleeper to the dining car when the
train was running at high rate OF speed
The open platforms between the cars form-
ed gulf over which they feared to attempt
passage in fine weather and which in wind
or storm, or both, was impossible TO people
with delicate constitutions. II the dining
car system was to be a success. this obiec-
tion must be overcome, and the Pullman
people set themselves the task of b.idying
the chasm. In order to accomplish this end
they evolved and developed the idea of the
yestibule, and in bringing it into successful
usage the railway companies, as well as
their patrons, find that the original cificul-
ty has no. only been completely overcome,
but that great many other marked adyau-
tages have been secured In the Introduction
of the vestioule. One striking feature is
the additional strength created and dis
tributed over the entire train by the close
fitting Of the coaches to one another ani the
consequently increased power TO withstand
the shock OF a collision. TeIescopino Is
hardly possible in a weIIsquipped yestibuIe
train, from the simple fact that the steel
frames arrest the force which would drive
one car into another. The steadiSr motion
with which the closely united factors Of the
train are endowed will be readily recognized
as most beneficial result. This steadiness
IL noticeable at once, and particularly to tie
occupants OF upper berths or those who
having tried TO read or write in the ordinary
car, undertake to do so 10 vestibule train.
Ihe NeStioules, beside protecting the pass
eugers IN passing from end to end OF the
train, serve the purpose OF storm doors to a
residence, ana prevent the sudden drafts
which the opening of an ordinary car door
always creates Another feature which is
prominent from a social standpoint, Il the
deadening OF the noise made by the rapid
revolution OF the wheels over the rails so
that conversation may be carried on without
In any way straining the voice.
The constructors OF these cars 'builded
wiser than they knew aud succeeded in
aboiishing many OF the pett7 annoyances
which beset the railway traveller, even on the
best equipped roads,
These cars" he continued, "are as far
superior 20 the ordinary coach as the Pull
man Is TO the old d-fashiOned passenger car.
They enhance in great degree the pleasure
and comfort of travel and, as the learned
Judge remarked in the decision above re-
ferred 10. they must have proved a startling
ana successful Innovation or a competing
company would not have been so prompt in
Initiating them The Pennsylvania's New
York and Chicago Limited Express was
the pioneer sastibue train, and the enor-
nous popularity IL has won is the best evil
denee OF public appreciation of its merits. %
-Net1 York Times.