Arizona silver belt., 1893-04-01
THE PALACE CAR.
WHAT IT COSTS AND HOW IT Is
 USUALLY EQUIPPED.

Car or a Train of Several Cars--If You
 Have the Money You Can Take Yom
 Ease-Linen for Palace Cars,
 It costs only $50 a day to hire a com pletely furnished and palatial dwell ing house on wheels, containing seven teen beds, In front is an "observation room" Next come two drawing rooms, both fairly spacious. Behind these is a dining room twelve feet long. The middle part of the car is occupied by berths, which are comfortable sofas during the day In the rear are a good sized kitchen, china closet, pantry, bathroom and cold storage closet. All linen for table and beds, tableware, crockery and every other necessary are supplied. Three servants arc provided also without extra charged skilled cook, waiter and porter, who are un. der the orders of tenant. Heating and lighting are thrown in. After ten days the rental is five dollars less per diem. Thus luxuriuusly housed the occupant can travel wherever he wishes all over the continent by paying the railways eighteen fares for transportation How ever, if more than eighteen passengers are carried in tue car, so many extra fares must be paid. He can stop at whatever points he desires and have his car side tracked, making his home in it during his stay.
 If he chooses he can bring along his own servants, linen, tableware and wines. He is at liberty to furnish the comuissaIiat himself, or the company will supply everything in that way for him. charging only l5 per cent. over and above cost and rendering to him the bills The latter is by far the better plan, inasmuch as trouble Is saved and affairs are attended to more satisfactori- ly by the company, which understands the business and can buy food cheaper besides The cook Is always a capable person, and, having time schedule for a journey across the continent, he will telegraph ahead tO various points for such luxuries as may be obtainable at the markets in different cities, thus ar ranging for fresh fruits, butter and eggs, and even for newly cut bouquet 10 be put on the table every morning at breakfast All of this k susceptible ef variation. One can engage an ordinary sleeping car for so, sleeping car with buffet for s45, or dining and observation car combined for $40 4 hunting car, provided with kennels for dogs, racks for guns, fishing tackle, etc., costs only $3j day, Service and all incidentals are in every case thrown in.
 But one can do better than this if he has p.enty of money to spare. He can hire a complete travelling hotel for $2l0 day in the shape of an entire train, consisting of four sleeping cars, a dining car and a buffet smoker. An obser- yation car may be added at an expense of Si0 more The buffet smoker repre- sents in some respects the highest de velopment of the modern parlor ear. It includes bar, barber shop, bath room and a library, wherein can be found books, writing materials and the newest magazines and pictorial and daily papers,
 In short, 1t is a small club on wheels There is no other country in the world where luxury in travelling is so highly appreciated as it is in the United States Abroad it is said that the only people who go by rail "iirst class' are the nobility and the Americans. Of course the person who charters a whole train must pay the railways for transporta- ton at least eighteen fares per car, though west of the Mississippi the minimum rate is usually fifteen fares. No ear can be rented for the prices above given for less than three days.
 Et has recently become the fashion for actresses to travel in private ears. Now adays 8 conspicuous star usually insists on being provided with such a convey ance as part of the contract for the tour which she signs with her manager BeIuharlt always carries a small men, agerie with her, which could not very well be accommodated in a public vohi- cle. Theatrical companies very com m0nly hire one or more cars while trav- cling, that being q convenient and agreeable method of transportation.
 Dining cars arc usually owned by the railway and arc managed by the palace ear companies. Ordinarily they are run at a considerable loss, being attached to trains merely as an attraction to pas sengers. The expense of conducting them is enormous.
 Arrangements made between the pal ace car companies and the railways re- garding sleeping cars vary very much. Sometimes the latter pay as much as two or three cents mile for the use of each sleeper, where, R is particularly apt to be tue ease in the south, the passenger traffic is not sufficient 10 repay the car companies. In such cases a railroad is often obliged to provide the necessary convenience at loss to itself The item of washing is a very costly one in the running of sleeping cars, inasmuch as no piece of linen is ever used twice with out going to the laundry. A sleeper, on leaving New York for Chicago or St. Louis, receives a ''stoek" of 120 linen sheets, 12O pillowslips and 120 towels. This gives change for two nights. Eff teen or twenty clean towels are always kept on the washstand The washing is done in New York, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis and other cities, being given out in great quantities at the low rate of one dollar per hundred pieces An equipment of linen lasts about one year, at the end of which it must be re- newed. It is purchased by wholesale $5O,O worth at time Philadelphia Times.