Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-09-02
[Philadelphia Times, August Ilth, 1871
LUXURIOUS TRAVELLING.
ThesPulIma an Palace Car Com
Pany's Latest Production
for the Pennsylvania Raj
rOnd.

pany's Latest Production
for the PennsyIvania Raj
road.
With the marvellous improvement
of late days in interior architectur,
and elaborate finish of Pullman carr
it requires the exceptional to attract
more than passing notice and the ex
traordinary to draw forth comment
Some months ago the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, ordered from the
Pullman Works, for the equipment
of the New York and Washington
and Congressional limited express
trains, the very best Representative
work the Pullman company was cap.
able of creating regardless of expense,
and the result is now seen in the new
cars running this last week on these
two magnificent solid vestibule trains,
which connect in q few hours the ma.
tons metropolis with her seat of gov
ernment. What is surely of much
more Importance than the handsome
exterior finish of these cars, over
which even experienced travellers
are enthusiastic is the improved and
heavy trucks ON which the palaces
are built. They have been with the
wheels and axles. subjected to the
very highest test, even beyond the
standard, which on the Pennsylva
mia Railroad is highest known, and
at the end of their active journey
came to halt as cool almost as at
the start The designer here has al.
50 made a marked advance, and one
promoting untold comfort, by ar
ranging the connection of car, body
and truck SO as to reduce to mini.
mum the swaying motion ordinarily
felt when under full speed. The en-
tire trains are connected by vesti.
bules, fitted foristeam heat and equip,
ped with improved air-brsak appi-
ances, wich practically stop the cars
almost in their own length. The
former equipment of these trains
seemed impossible to be i'm
proved upon, yet their perfection of
design and finish demonstrates the
capacities of this modern age for
wonderful and radical changes. The
exterior appearance aside from the
drawing room angled bay-windows,
is identical with the regulation Pull
man in color and design, and it is
not until advancing through the YES
tibule that the revelation of what
Americans have grown to expect in
taking their few hundred miles jaunts
is made manifest as illustrated by
these luxuriously tinishedspelaces on
wheels. The upholstery of the com
Portable, revolving easy-chairs and
sofas, affording seating accommoda-
tions for thirty four persons in each
car, is of white imported mohair
cloth, worked with figured silk en-
bossing. The flooring is covered
with rich, heavy, Turkish carpet
ing, whose color blends harmonious
ly with the furnishings, even to the
adjustable ottoman, ready for foot
service at the front of each char
Upon entering the aisle-way it is
noticably wider than in ether Pull
man cars, and the woodwork is pol
ished ash, stained A perfect effect
is produced in the hand-carved en-
frances from the drawing rooms in
to the main car body, as it arches to
a center in a miniature dome, where
scroll-work, loaded glass, glass de
signs and heavy plate mirsors lend
an exceptionally rich finish. At the
windows hang dual set of curtains,
one light cream to neutralize the
light and shade the eyes, and back
heavy set of some rich brown stuff,
embroidered and tasseled The cell
ings are hand decorations not elab
crate or over worked, but very arts
tic, while every cornice or where one
might expect the sharp edge is some
dainty bit of Woodworking The re-
ceptable racks as well as the chandal-
ier lamps are made of oxide silver,
the latter being of very unique pat
tern and shedding the softest silvery
light on the interior decorations.
The drawing rooms are perhaps
the latest innovation in car construc-
ton; one is closed to the top of the
ceiling, above the average standing
height, with heavy plate glass, 'bev-
eled and panneled while the other
side is open, and its occupants screen
ed from the passengers in the body
of the car by rich Siding curtains
suspended on brass rods running
possibly two feet higher than the
frame woodwork, and supported at
the carved corners by thin newell
posts of curiously twisted brass.
These compartments accommodate
ing six each, have a direct connection
by door with the lavatory and toilet
rooms, two spacious apartments
well ventilated. and lighted. The Law
atery basin is made Of heavy nickel,
and every appointment in the way of
necessary toilet articles is in its re-
spective rack of twisted brass.
The woodwork above each chair
ia the main car is carved with laural
wreathes, suspended by the grace
fully strings, all most exquisitely
carved by hand.
The entire arrangement suggests
more a salon of Louis eXIV's time
than regular passenger express
train of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
These cars added to the deservedly
popular dining cor service of the
Washington Limited Express trains,
render these trains absolutely peer .