Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-21
the climate and hotel under its new
manager, Mr.. f. B. Dashiel.
HOW HE TRAVELS.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE PREsIDEN
TIAL SPECIAL TRAIN.
orations and Luxurious Appointments
The Various Cars.

The following description of the train
in which President Harrison travels will
be found OF interest:
The presidential special is the in.
scription in letters of gold on the for
ward panels of the combination bag
gage and smoking car Aztlan.
The forward end of the Aztlan, or so
much OF it as is not occupied by q
dynamo for operating the electric lights,
is devoted to baggage and boxes OF
supplies OF a non-perishable nature.
Then comes the smoking compartment,
upholstered in olive plush, furnished
with chairs and sofa, and provided with
library and couple of desks. Electric
screw fans are at each end of the smok-
ing compartment, SO that when the
press representatives weary OF the 20
cent Havana atmosphere, they can cut
it up by turning the current on. There
is but one chair in the barber shop ;
that will be enough, for there will be
only one barber. A large mirror is
properly situated so that the president,
when having his hair trimmed, can see
whether the barber is or is not shipping
pieces out of one of the presidential
ears. The bathroom is very diminutive.
A dyspeptic could eat in the dining
car Coronado. The tables are OF oak and
the curtains are green plush. Pearl
grey seats look coolly inviting and har-
monize esthetically with the silvery
lamps and fittings. y
Next to the commissary department is
the presidents car, New Zealand. The
main interior is upholstered in blue
plush with brown curtains, but the
sleeping apartments set aside for the
president and Mrs. Harrison-a double
drawing room-are dainty as bridal
chamber in a bran new hotel. White
and gold prevail in the decorative wood
work, the plush is rich terra Gotta.
The effect is most pleasing.
The Ideal is made up of six drawing
rooms, all furnished and decorated in the
highest style of the art. One room is
salmon and white, with some of the
woodwork plain mahogany, the rest of
it salmon tinted and gold mottled. The
berth panels are adorned with flowers
and gilt molding. Another apartment
is saffron hued, third is sea-sick
green in its general tinge, while the
others are crushed strawberry, olive and
electric blue.
A combined library and observation
car is the Vacuna. In its forward end
are six sections, upholstered in blue and
metal-ftted in brass. Linen closets
divide these sections from the observa-
ton car proper. Two sections in brown
plush are separated from the open car.
Sixteen chairs are ranged alongside the
great plate glass windows. Electric
fans are also fitted at the ends of the
room.
But the open air end of the car will be
more interesting than its interior. The
platform is seven feet long by nine feet
wide, rubber foored and fenced in with
brass and bronze. The roof extends to
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 him.
self to the elements. A brass brake
wheel affords a convenient grip for the
speakers right hand, leaving the left
hand free gesticulative purposes.
All the illumination on the train, even
to the exterior lamps, is electric.
In addition to the electric lights there is
an ample supply of oil lamps, to be used
should the current give out.