St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-14
TRAIN OF PALACES.
The Presidential Party VIII Travel
in Luxury.

HI LUXURY
WASHINGTON, April 13.-The presi-
dental special train, which will carry
the White house party across the con-
tinent and return, is standing side
tracked in the yard Of the Pennsylvania
Railway company, and is an object of
much admiration. 1t represents the
highest skill and ingenuity of the best
car manufacturers in the world, and in
its appearance the appointments COM
bine IN the highest degree elegance,
good taste and luxurious comfort
The train consists of five coaches,
besides the engine and tender.
The forward coach, the combination
baggage and smoking car ''AZtlan,"
bears on its panels in letters of gold the
inscription, 1.-The Presidential Special"
The smoking compartment of this car is
upholstered In olive plush, and the
chairs and sofa are of the same color.
Two desks and library of choice books,
from which all political literature has
been excluded, complete the equipment
of the smoker. The books take up two
large bookcases, and Andrew Carnegie's
''Around the World" and Lew Wallace's
''Ben Hur' and The Fair God'' are
volumes which the president can peruse
with an added interest from his per-
sonal intimacy with the authors. A
barber shop and bath room occupy the
rear of the "Aztlan." The dining
car, christened Coronado" is
thing of beauty. The curtains are
of green plush, the lamps and fittings
of silver shade and all the appoint
ments as elegant as those of a firSt-clasS
restaurant. The presidents car, 1.-The
New Zealand is next to the dining car.
The general effect of its decoration is
most pleasing. The main part of the
car upholstered in blue plush with
room set aside for the sleeping apart
ments of the president and Mrs. Harri-
son, looks as dainty as bridal chamber
in its white and gold woodwork re-
lieved by plush of rich terra Gotta
color. The other sleeping car, the
"IdeaP' is made up of six drawing
rooms. all finely furnished. and each
drawing room decorated i'll distinctive
tone from from that of the others. One is
salmon and white, another saffron, a
third green and the others strawberry
and olive and electric blue. The
"Vacuna," which is the last coach of
the train, combines the double adyan-
tages of a library and observation car.
1t is upholstered in blue, and all the
metal is of highly-polished brass. The
great plate glass windows will be a
favorite place for the members of the
presidential party toview the immense
stretch of country through which they
will travel before reaching Washington
again. The feature of this car, how
ever, is the open-air end, especially
adapted for pubic speaking from a
train. The platform is seven feet long
by nine feet wide, rubber floored and
fenced in with brass and bronze. The
roof extends to a point even with the
platform, so that when it becomes
necessary to address an audience in the
rain the president does not necessarily
have to expose himself to the elements.
All the illumination on the train, even
to the interior lamps will be electric.
In addition to the electric lights there
is an ample supply of oil lamps, to be
used should the current give out. Elec-
trio fans throughout the train assure
the party of relief should the heat be
oppressive ON the great plains of the
Southwest. George W. Boyd, OF the
Pennsylvania railroad, will be with the
party throughout the trip to insure the
perfection of all arrangements foI the
presidential visit The Richmond &
Danville railroad system has detailed
two of its officials. Mr.. Taylor,
the head of the passenger de-
partment, and Mr.. Hardwick, of
the Georgia racine DIVISION, to accom-
pany the party from Washington to
Birmingham, and they have been in
structed to place all the resources of
that great system at the presidents dis
posal to insure the pleasure of his jour-
ney through the South. The presiden-
tial party, as now arranged, Is as fol-
lows: President and Mrs. Harrison,
Mrs. Mckee. Mrs. Dimmick, Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell Harrison, Postmaster Gen
eral Wanamaker, Marshal Ransdell,
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Boyd, E. F.
Tibbetts, the presidents stenographer,
and the representatives of the press as
soeiatiOns. Private Secretary Halford
will remain in Washington on account
of the illness of his wife.