The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-13
WHOLE TRAIN TO HIMSELF
Hermann Not Satisfied With a Private
Car Only
When Completed the Magician VIII Have Five
Cars and Magnificent LocomotIve-csr.
ries With Him Horses and Carriages

It is no uncommon thing for theatrical
stars to travel in chartered private cars.
but it is rare indeed that one owns whole
train of cars. HERMANN, the prestidigita-
teur, owns a private car, said to be one OF
the finest anywhere, q baggage car and a
stock car, built at his own expense by the
OHIO Falls Car company OF Jeffersonville,
Ind. There is now building for him in the
Schenectady shops locomotive which Will
be capable of pulling four cars at sts-
tanned speed of seventy miles an hour
which IL to be, SO the contract reads, the
most perfect engine ever turned out OF the
shops.
He is firm upholder of the old adase
dull boy. He plays from the time he
starts on his tour until he gets back to
New York, and then he starts all over
again, only that he does not work. In his
perfOrTffances -pectatOrs are naturally led
to the supposition that the gross receipts
are divided be wee the professor and his
wife, with perhaps an assistant or Two IN
cluded, but there are others, twenty-seven
of them. and all travel with him. There
are, besides these, six horses and seven
driving vehicles, a regular armory and an
armorer, to say nothing of a photograph
gallery and all the rest of it. This all
takes three cars. Now Hermann finds
that he il Obliged to leave some of his pets
ut home because of space and so is having
another car built. His latest venture Is TO
build his own locomotive.
Hprrmann's private car is magnificent
affair 1t cost $4,000 TO build and 5000
was put on il af erwards. 1t is built under
the Mann patents, but of special design.
The wheels are A inches, whereas the
standard is but SO inches. and the floor ia
a treble one. There are twelve wheels uIi-
d r the whole, and it 10 almost impossible
for passengers to tell when the car IL NOV
ing, so steady is it's carriage, aud all noise
ON the rails deadened. Ii is finished in
q,iartered oak and embossed leather. Every
panel in the leather work is different in
design from it's fellow and all designed by
artists. In the front of the car is the pro-
fessor's office, where is cabinet type
writer desk and machine. shu,up desk,
bookcase, letter files, gun rack with six
she'll and rifle weapons, and lounge.
Slowed away in corners are a photograph
ic outfit and half dozen other things.
Next to the office is Nine. Hermann
boudoir, which Ia calculated to kill wi h
envy any woman who may see 1t. -Four
vides and the ceiling are covered with bro
caded satin of a pale sea foam green tint,
heavily padded, with buttons sunk into it
fully two inches. One half the space is
taken up by large bed. which is draped
with silk curtains to match the room, and
beneath the bed is a luxurious bathIub,
which slides on rollers. Four panel plate
glass mirrors run up the floor TO the CELL
ing, and. the same as the entire car, the
apartment is lighted At night by gas.
Next is the toilet room and beyond 1t the
professor own apartment. He was not so
kin 10 himself as to the madame, for his
bunk is severely plain, if quarter-sawed oak
aid elnbo sed decorated leather can be
ma Ie to appear plain. The body of the car
J. taken up With the living room, also the
dim room, in the center of which stands
a large table, and he walls are hung with
pictures taken from the p ofessor's couri-
try tsi,ience, Whitestone, Long Island.
One il a picture of the steam yacht Fra
Diavolo, owned by Hermann. here are
besides The apartments mentioned spare
room, kitchen, pantrles. Perhaps more
in eresting than this private Car is the Ole
which is designed to carry the ianciful ina.
giciaus stable Hermann carries SIN
horses with him.
The third car Is a baggage car. used for
that purpose alone, and the fourth, plans
for which are now being prepared, is tu
carry such other residents OF Whitest,,ne
as the professor may consider life hardly
worth living without.