New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-15
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neers and firemen and almost everybody else TOT
The exterior Of the cars. like that Of other pas
senger coaches OF those days was
was the following editorial comment which is
f in the rght wa resar5ed in
I'm days gone by travellers might well have Inn
OF public conveyances to render them as uncom-
Portable as possible Now. at least IN this country
Formerly ravens among f other silence ineon Nr
INDUCED In, 1t was In such uneasy posture that
the sleeper awoke more fatigued tnan before New
American ingen lity has invented sleep nss H.
which. for small increase in the fare the traveller
may enjoy his natural rest and yet not lie Retarded
Our Illustration was drawn from one Of the cars
In on the northern branch OF the New-York
Central Railroad. on which line sleeping cars are at;
tached to every night train The cars may be USED
as ordinary day ones but at night twp VS., ha,f s
Jet down from the ceiling ana az i thn sea she n
each of these mattresses and bedding are placer,
curtains closely drawn up during the day are ls
@ paca the about %nof the s1 Of vs SIPS
We are glad to see that some me- OF the step
in the right direction. which Will without COUP
be followed by the directors OF 0ther taIIoaus,
profitable. without calcuang The income from
the increased travel which always follows improve S
creased fare for the accommodation"
Woodruff sold to Webster Wagner the right 70
TO George Gates the rights Of the patent on the
Buffalo and Erie Gates MERGED wn into N the
Wagner Palace Car Company. 49,. oonnonv
Wagner, who gave his name TO the company
which has built all the palace-cars for the Nander-
bilt roads. was born near Palatine brlnge, ~, a.,
Of German parentage. He learned the wagon max
ers' trade and used his skill to so GOOD ahVar-
tage that before he died he had the satisfaction
of knowing that he was making some or the pest
vehicles in the world. Wagner made i fortune;
and was elected to the State Senate. lie was
killed in Of his own cars in rdllroad acci-
dent at Spuyten Duyvil in lSs2.
George NJ Pullman was formerly n miner IN
Colorado In 1888 he entered train on the LAKE
Shore road at Buffalo. a sleeping-car was max
Ing n trial trip that train. ana he resolved 10
try n berth. lie tossed about ana made SO
Uncomfortable that he arose before daybreak ana
spent the remainder Of the night thinking what
pity il was that such an excellent idea as mat
of a sleeping car should be so crudely ana uhcom-
fortably carried out Before he arrived In Chica6o
he had made up his mind 10 build better aie"ilns-
cars than the one which ne was riding. ms nrst
cars were the Chicago ana Alton itdlHoal
I'm lNN Abraham Lincoln was one or MS carry
no sscutscrs and the future President took me
greatest interest in the invention, ana had the
construction OF the car explained TO him.
II was not until 1854 that the nrst combination
daV and seepng-car Of The present type was punt
bv' MIR Pullman. II cost $500, and was named
"Porcer" II was leticrcd a." for at that time
Il was not believed that there would ever be cars
enough in use at time to exhaust the letters
OF the alphabet. . ,,.
The Iioneer was larger than the ordinary