The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-12

ten days ana over Inere were ten
ordinary-sized hoIisss, all furnished mag
nificsntly ana doing as we did But they
did not know each other, scarcely ever saw
each other-apparently, had no wish except
TO go along and do as you pleased-blessed
privileged
OFF ALONG THE PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE.
The day came at last when had to leave
all this luxury aud start for the wilds OF
Colorado and the embrace of the grizzly.
At $50 a. M. we stepped on board the
"Chicago Limited Pennsylvania railroad
and the first hour had to ne given up to re-
connissance. We must find out upon what
palotial land we stand and the inquiry
was well worthy of the investigation. To
describe the Chicago Limited from New
York to Chicago, is to tell the sublime
heights to which American genius has
climbed. In no part of this terrestrial
| globe does there exist the equal of the exte-
rior arrangements of the Pennsylvania rail
road. A road-bed perfectly ballasted
from the eastern metropolis TO the western,
so that no spark OF dust falls on your new
summer suit, and you can shave yourself
without a sudden curve in the road quickly
cutting yodr jugular vein; perfect set of
! signals, so that every five-mile section. by
| signals displayed both day and night, indi-
Gates whether any train is on that section
or off; magnificent scenery, carrying you
through the mountainous heights OF thu
Alleghanies, bending like serpent
around the sinuous. tortuous curves of
the Horseshoe Bend. then the train
rushing full pace down the
slides of the mountain, over the very bed
and through the same gorges. as the fearful
stream that destroyed Johnstown last year.
One year ago to tho very day-that city
stood. aud on the day we passed through
the city she rose no and was alive again,
with houses rebuilt. factories putting out
their smoky breath, railroad bridges span
ming again the terrible stream, men coming
and going through the streets, as If no flood
of waters had come tumbling, rushing,
pouring. roaring from twenty miles away,
and had swept the sleeping, unsuspect-
ing town into destruction. "Great is
America, and money is her prophet After
leaving Johnstown the great excitement
must, OF course, be the burning, flaming
coke furnaces, the natural gas fields
spouting their livid tongues of flame many
hundreds of feet up into the air, the roaring
Carnegie furnaces. using this natural gas
all of these watch-fires lighting up Pitts
burg from ten to twenty miles each side of
the smoky city. The full moon shone out
Of a cloudless sky, but the moon had better
bank her fires when she has to do with
Pittsburg. Her light pales before natural
gas, $50 year, and iron furnaces, 20 per
cent. dividend She had better give up.
Pennsylvania protective tariff and gigantic
trusts will swallow her up as a very tiny
morseli
Such was the outside scenery that famed
and flashed upon ones gaze, but what does
the pennsylvania Railroad Chicago Linn
tied" contain within her moving palatial
cars to constitute his especial train as the
queen of all the roads to the west9 When
you enter for the first time one of these
magnifcently equipped trains you feel as
YOU do when going on board new steamer
You must go from bow to stern and from
side to side in order to get acquainted with
your surroundings. So let us take
stroll, all under cover, from
other, starting from the rear car. This last
carriage is called the observation car, and is
fitted up with comfortable lounging chairs
for ladies and gentlemen, who wander to
this part of the train all day long, the bet
ter to observe the scenery from the broad
vestibule in the rear which looks back over
the track that has been passed. Here one
could sit by the hours in perfect enjoyment
OF the beautiful scenery of the Alleghanies,
which range of mountains is crossed by
the Pennsylvania railroad at Altoona
w hen the scenery wearies the
eye, then you re-enter the observation
car. and dictate letters in your turn for
which application has been previously
| made) to stenographer, and a handsome
mailing when you reach Pittsburg. Others
of the party request the key of the library,
and open and take out any books they de-
sire for perusal, and the selection of books
in the four libraries on the train is admi-
rable. All Of this extra comfort and luxury
observation chairs, stenographer and
books-costs you nothing extra.
THE VARIOUS CARS OF THE TRAIN.
Next to the observation car come the
three Pullman sleepers and drawing-room
cars, and the number is always limited to
three, for an extra sleeper would prevent
the engine from making the schedule time,
and the company forfeits IS to every pas
senger if it should fail to make the published
time. l fear many railroads in the country
would be bankrupt if they were tc make a
similar contracts with their passengers /!
These three cars are fitted up in the hand.
soonest style of the Pullman work, done in
hard wood and velvet, lighted by electricity
and heated by steam. One especial feature
deserves to be noticed. Electricity is evil
IDENTIFY kept on tap. At night time you OBJ
serve to the porter that you cannot see to
read-in moment a little electric lamp is
brought to your seat, hung up on q hook in
the corner near the window, cords contain
ing wires are affixed and the cock being
turned on, you have private illumination
all to yourself. Succeeding to the sleepers
| comes the dining car, and obi such dinners
it makes ones mouth water, out on these
western prairies, to think of
them still l argued for the space
OF i've minutes with my conscience whether
or not l should abstract one of the elaborate
menu cards; but some dim remembrance of
my profession saved me in time But if
ever have another chance / shall bride one
of those colored gentlemen who wait upon
the table TO give me one-so the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad may take due notice. Dinner
over, the diner makes his way into the last
or sixth car of the train, which is the smoker
Here he finds barber shop, comfortable
smoking chairs. financial reports of the stock
market, brought on the train at every
stopping place, two more libraries and
writing desks, free newspapers from New
York lying on the table for everybodys use.
noticed on leaving New York there was a
pile of about fifty papers-toward night 1t
was difficult to find one. Somebody must
have been committing petty larceGy. When
realized how contemplate such theft was,
feb glad that | hadn't walked off with
that menu card.
Thus, surrounded by every comfort that
could make railroad journey pleasant, we
dashed along to the west at forty-five miles
an hour, stopping only at Philadelphia,
Harrisburg, Altoona, and Pittsburg
Whether we stopped in Ohio and Illinois l
know not, as the travellers were wrapped in
sleep. But Chicago is being whistled for,
or @ba ~ II .