The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-24
Something About Railway Passenger
Train Equipment.
'Ironquill."

Something About Railway Passenger
Train Equipment.
We live in the age of aggressiveness and pro-
gressiveness. and yet we scarcely comprehend the
fact that thousands of models of ingenious devices
surround wherever 60, and so far adj
vanced these new inventions, over those of
the family of but few decades back, if we
were to stop and draw comparison in true form.
we could not avoid coming to the con Inclusion that
while Nothing is impossible with God" but few
things impossible with the advanced
There is no class of aggressive and progressive
mind-workers that has accomplished more than
that school of inventors and promoters of ingenu-
ity which has so successfully developed our rail-
way, passenger coaches, Bullets, sleepers, diners
and chair cars into moving palaces of comfort.
Take the old eghtwheeled coach and put it
along side the modern palace car with her paper
wheels. nom heating boxing, flexible and durable
springs air brakes and improved couplings, and
when we step into the car and discover that even
though she is tripping along the polished steel
at the rate of forty miles hour you scarcely
distinguish the difference between the motion of
the car and that of floating row boat. Note the
advancement in railway passenger service as
invite you to follow my trip from "Podunk"
to "Pikevle' via the "Pollywog' short line,
when accumulation trains with unaccomodating
conductors lavish luxuries. and think of the
glorious picnic it to spend night in one of
those bone testing coaches tagging freight train
up and down grade at the average rate of fifteen
miles an hour. we'll remember how we used to
get out and run behind to warm up when going up
grade and also remember how my pants were
polished from sliding from end of the slat bot
tom seat to the other. when making the rumbling
slide down grade. AS said before, such travelling
Accommodations, which cost no less than five cents
mile, was a luxury in those days. and the man
who dared to predict that cushioned seats would
some day come in vogue. would have been chained
up in the baggage department of the car-for a
lunatc. But the cushioned seats did come, and
so did the patent heater, the foot rest, the air
brake and the cutoff coupling, and just about the
time we had the earth in little red wagon in the
coach line, old Pullman got it into his head that
people would like to go to bed in st. Louis and get
up the next morning in Chicago, and when he de-
claired himself on this project people laughed
themselves tired, and for time the now great
Pullman not that his palace sleeper
was going to awake the comfort seeking public to
the fact that it was snoring success. But it was
a success just the same, and to-day the sleeping
is everyday affair in this and most all other
work at home. but It is in use far away in foreign
lands. and it is common thing to see Pullman
vestbuled sleeper rolling over the plains of the
Argentine Republic, South America. Nowadays
if we want to make trip we are most sure to Sc
lect route, or line. that dispatches quick time
passenger trains the rail, and it must be COM
posed of the very latest equipment and whether
its vestbuled and carpeted, or it has pal
chair cars, Bullets, hotel cars, Pullman, Wag-
ener Mann boudoir sleepers with an elegantly
appointed diner attached or not, it must have
enough of the above to render good service. and
good service means good deal with the Ameri-
public at the present time.
While writing this little article call to mind
one of our greatest OF western railway systems.
system that has competed successfully with
every railway and navigable river in the west,
and that has overcome every diffculty that coul d
its path. and at the present writing is doing
phenomenal traffic and passenger business in
Illinois. Iowa. Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, and
has at last tapped the commercial wonders of the
northwest minneapolis and st. Paul. .sending out
Chicago and st. Louis passenger trains that are
equaled by few roads. and surpassed by none.
This great railway system is known to the world
as the "Burlington' or 90" and as the famous c.
B. & Q.-Chicago. Burlington and Quincy-will
continue for generation after generation to trans
port in comfort thousands upon thousands of pas
sengers. UNCLE JAKE.
One beautiful soul is the door through which
one enters to the society of all true and pure
souls.-Emerson.