Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-27
lHE PAN-AMEklUANS.
The Triune Congress Extended
the Freedom of Omaha.
A TRAIN OF ROYAL SPLENDoR.
The Delightful Ride From Iowa to
the Gate City.
SOUTH OMAHA ALSO VISITED
Welcomed With Lavish Hospitality
at the Paxton.
iouTH OMAHA ALSO VISITED
NIGHT AT THE THEATRE.
Close OF the Day With n Visit to tho
Illuminated Bee and New
York Life Insurance
Buildings.
Bound For Omaha.

Bound For Omaha.
AT the Sioux City depot yesterday morning
were assembled the haut ton rs well as the
canaille of the city, to wave the southern
guests a last farewell. Society ladies were
there without number, provident mammas
with eligible daughters, and during the little
time left before the departure of the train
many of the fair ones were introduced to the
courteous cavaliers of old CASTLE Per
haps greater crowd than this was never
gathered together in Sioux City before and
an excitement, that was infectious seemed to
pervade the very air. Men crowded and
jostled each other in their eagerncss to get
next to the cars as the distinguished visitors
filed aboard; the small boy was numerous,
loud and pestiferous; he cheered for Amer
lea, guyed the band and hooted at the
soldiers. The two bands made the air re-
sound in their cmulous strains, and indeed
the picture was one weR calculated TO en-
thuse and stimulate old and young. II was
a stirring scene, full of shifting
color and mingling form. The special
tram started exactly on time.
No formalites were indulged in when the
distinguished guests were received, and
every one settled himself for a pleasant
journey to the metropolis of Nebraska.
The Special Train.
The train was the finest and most complete
that has ever been coupled. 1t was made up
of six palatial Pullman cars, the most elabor-
ate and magnificent ever constructed. All
are illuminated by incandescent electric
lights. The library car the "Esperanza," is
model of beauty. 1t is finished IN gold and
bronze, and appointed as a library, with
smoking and lounging rooms, apartments for
cards, barber shop, bathroom, buffet and
writing. In this Car Is located dynamo, by
means of which the train of six cars is
illuminated with electric lights and which
charges storage batteries under the cars,
capable, when charged, of running the light
for ten hours without the use of the dynamo.
From this dynamo are lighted the signal
lights on rear of the train and from 1t, also is
established the current fro m which may be
lighted, at pleasure, in each section of the
different cars, portable lights, of eight candle
power, for individual use.
The "Wlndsor'-the dining car, is finished
in oak and olive green, with seating capacity
for forty. lone people,
The sleepers columbus" and "Washing-
ton" are finished in satin wood, mahogany
and royal purple with maroon hangings,
while the Japan and India" are finished
in satin-wood, mahogany and turquoise blue.
with purple garnet and lazuli hangngs. The
drawing rooms are exquisite Their finish
is ivory, gold, topaz and maroon. Hot and
cold water is supplied by air pressure from
tanks beneath, and baths are connected with
the toilet rooms III all the sleepers The AIR
pump which forces the hot and cold water is
located beneath the ''espnranzor.p The
train is pulled by engine 1858 of
the great Pennsylvania railroad. The en-
gine has hauled the train ever since it
started, distance of 5000 miles, and it has
nearly the same distance to cover before its
pilgrimage comes to an end.
Coming down yesterday, on the Omaha
road, the Jrain was preceded by one Of the
roads fastest engines, acting as pilot. En-
gine 1853 is the admiration of railroad men
all along the route. She Is veritable
beauty. The regular crew is as follows:
S. Hart, engineer; j. Turr, fireman;
George Deele baggage master; G. +. Ege,
Pullman conductor; porters, j. p. Luckett,
r. r. Jackson, A. r. Clements, j. H. Brooks,
G. Mutin; dining car conductor, B. Wyrick;
Walters, }. and G. Bailey, G. Lart w.
Woods, II. Mercer, Chef de Cuisine, William
Seldom, with three assistants ID. "A. Dun
can, superintendent of the Pullman Dining
Car company, is also with the party.
So marvellous a train, such magnificent
management has never been eXcelled in the
annals Of the railroad world. These are due,
first, to unequalled equipment of the great
Pennsylvania road, which has been the
wonder of the delegates, and next TO tho
superintendence and direction of H. w.
Draper, in whom this company finds most
remarkable and worthy representative.
There was nothing which the tourists de-
sired to know that he could not tell them.
There was no comfort which they desired
that he had not anticipated. In connection
with the road, Mr.. Draper proved beyond
cavil the excellence aud perfection to which
the great Pennsylvania route had carried its
personally conducted system OF excursions.
of which, this was indeed the crowalng
triumph.
The Omaha committee was provided by
General Manager Burt, of the y. ~. T.. NJ.
& o., with a special car which was attached
TO the train at Sioux City. Mr.. Burt, who
accompanied the Omaha committee, was
assiduous in his attention To the party. es-
pecially IN his general direction Of the train
as 1t passed over his road.