River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-29

CHICAGO. Jan. / 1891.
Sometimes we ma good resolves at the
beginning of the year and break EN-. L
think it better TO do than merely resolve.
Let me begin the year Alright by te ling
the thousands of daily readers of the RAJ. =
WAY AND Hotel News that, no matter what
railway managers ay induce railway
tooters to claim, the fact ls--the hlcago.
Milwaukee a. ST Paul vestib ed train that
leaves st. Paul for Chicago every evening
al eight is the captain OF all tie common
carriers in this neck OF the woods md 1
say this without desiring in any sense to
de ract from tie s erits OF other roads
They all have their peculiar features. Zach
has some special merit. But the "Milwau-
kee'' possesses all these and has added
some of her own. This favorite company
recently decided to own its own sleeping
cars, and some of the new ones that have
been put into service in The last month are
the most luxurious, most beautiful and best
constructed sleepers ever uilt by any com
pany. There i no suggestion of 'ginger-
bread anywhere, but solid comfort, rest,
a sort of feeling as if at last we had found
the great desideratum IN sleeping car IN
teriors.
Business required me to visit Chicago
last Saturday evening and | selected the
milwaukee" vestib led because had got
a straight tip from very prominent New
YORK theatrical manager who had recently
tried it. He deS Jared 1t to be the greatest
train in America. Now this is saying
good deal for there are some airly good
trains banging over the American CONT
nent. Wei, took his tip. ! fortunately
got slower l2'' in one of the new sleepers
of the company. just over my head near
the window a shaded electric light sent
forth its penetrating CLEANS The temper
AZURE of the train is kept uniformly at about
seventy degrees as it Is heated by steam
from a cheat and power car" next the
engine" This car also furnishes the cleo
tric light for the train.
With a sigh of relief after a hard days
work aid back Gu the upholstered cush-
ions and scanned a St Paul evening paper.
The sleeper was rapidly film up. There
were two or three young lad es travelling
alone, apparently as much &C home as II
they were under their own roof. 1t is a
maxim with the milwaukee, management
and all train employees are strictly enJoined
on this point, that weak and unprotected
travellers over the lines of the company are,
for che time being, the special charge OF
each and every employe
At eleven p. m. ''wrapped the drapery
of my couch about me and lay down to
pleasant dreams" and II ever one sept the
sleep of the innocent and the Just, 1t was
the subscriber that night. Snow white
sheets and pillow cases, downy pillows,
warm blankets, thick and soft hair mat
tresses all combined to WOO the drows,
god Somnus in my behalf.
At Milwaukee the dining car was at
tached. had thought of breakfasting at
the Auditorium in Chicago but a friend re
turned from his breakfast and assured me
could not afford to let that breakfast get
away. And now / know / couldn't Like the
vestibuled train itself it was ''out of sight
in all particulars
had never been able to understand why
the "Milwaukee' with so many active com
petitors as it has in st. Paul and Minneap-
oils, had been able to hold the ''balance of
power as it does, with the trave ing pub
lie. know now, and | don't mind telling
you: In every new departure mar ing a
distinct advance, in utilizing every new de
vice to add to the comfort and safet OF its
patrons, in the affahility of its employees,
and in general excellence, the Milwaukee,
is easily first. It's the model railway line
between Chicago, st. Paul and Minneapo
lis, and as compared with some of its
would-be rivals is away ''Out OF Sight