The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-11
A CAR BOUDOIR.
BoHEMIA's QUEEN WILL LIVE IN 1T
WHILE TRAVELLING THROUGH
THE COUNTRY.

age Room Langtry's Playing
Fountain in Her Car-EhOrt Made
for Pneumatic Tire for "A Million
aire InvaIid's Travel.
New York, Oct. 9-"Come with me-" said
my old friend. the Oldest official on the
read. eff you want to see luxury awheel,
They are overhauling the six finest private
cars in the world. and 1 can slip you into
them for peep. It's a chance you viii not
get again"
The morning was crisp and clear ard
with a fore-dream Of paradise I gathered
up bag and bundle for the little trip which
one is sure to take when one inspects the
most stationary Of private cars. And as
these were being reitted and refurnished
it was necessary that they should be run
up and down the tracks to see how the
new furnishings would stand jolt
This" said my guide hopping me w
the steps of a long dark colored car "ls
one that was used by John d. Rockefeller
for many years as a travelling school-room
| for his family. Those four Rockefeller
there used to be five-are the best educat t
| ed young people that ever lived. Their edu-
| cation was carried on by object-lessons.
! They travelled through the Yellowstone to
| study botany and geology, and they learn
ed physical geography in the Rockies. The
| zoology of the country was taught them
| in the wildernesses where they Travelled.
They stationed this car here and there, and
| took little trips out from it. These charts
/ and globes that you see were used in
teaching them the heavens from the loft
/ lest peak they could climb awheel. Did
| you ever see a study car before?'
/ looked around in amazement. There,
| running down the middle of the room,
were desks equipped with stationery.
| Along the windows were small seats for
observation. Around the walls hung
maps and everything for study. 1t was
a wonderful car.
pity they had to grow up, but I hear
| the little grandchld will have this car
some day. But come over and look at
/ this one that they are now fitting up
for a great sportman, T. Sufferin Taller,
| / believe"
This car was a square one. or SO Il
| seemed to me. Its width was ten feet
! hight about the same, and i,s iens 80
not over ten. The curious feature of the
! car was that it much resembled the
! Nimrod travelling cars. Covering one
/ side were gun racks, with ammunition
! and shooting apparatus of all kinds. At
| one end was a cold-storage box for the
| keeping of game, and the remainder of
| the walls were hung with sportsmen 5
| breeches and cap, game bags trophies of
the hunt and things to delight a sporting
| man.
THAT car" said my friend, sis the most
expensive of all on account of the cost
| of fitting it up. Those arms, the rifles,
| the shooters, the improved firearms of
all descriptions cost fortune not small.
| This car goes out for a trip to the Rock
| les. 1t is like the one in which Theodore
| Roosevelt made his famous trip to the
Rocky Mountains and came back with
| enough good original geological material
| for one of the best books of natural his
| try"
| While we were talking we had stepped
| across the freight yard and we were In
Ensmere, well known as the private
| car upon which Seward Webb spent
| $4,000 in frescoes. The Ellsmere has no
| frescoes now, because the day after the
| decorations were put in an employe
left a steam valve turned on and the
| escaping steam saturated everything. But
| there are exquisite furnishings.
One of the beauties of this car is the
windows. These are very large, so thar
| instead OF getting mere square of land
scape you enjoy for the first time the
| privilege of seeing the whole Of the couu-
| try as though you were riding upon n
/ cOdcN. lnlS car is ~ rect long, III Ieet
! wide and IA feet high. 1t has a stateroom
in one end, and there are numerous berths
| fitted up like small staterooms. Here
| there is provision made for the children OF
| the family in the form of wide beds =
! tached to the wall and heavily curtalned,
| out of which no child could possibly fall
| in the jolting of the car. 1t was as richly
| elegant as a boudoir and sleeping-roOm
| in town.
But the car l enjoyed most was Lang
| try's old car. This stands unused in the
car yards, but it is kept clean and luxuri-
Gus by porters, who delight in showing II
| to visitors to the yards. This car is I,
| very palace of luxury, so marvellous IN
| its appointments that Cleopatra would
| have given all her pearls to have thought
of 1t for Antony.
On. entering the car you see a lovely lit
tie reception-room, with books upon the
| table and a velvet portere behind Be
yond the velvet portiere you are in fairy
land. In the center of the room is a
small fountain that plays all the time. II
! is in reality only tub of water fitted with
a force-pump for raising the spray. The
same water goes through and through
the spray all day, but the ripple is as OF
a thousand little streams. of one end
| of this magic parlor opens a sleeping
room, and off that is a beautiful porce-
lain bathroom, supplied, as is possible
with these cars, with hot and cold water
and everything for the bath. Steam can
be obtained if desired.
As l stood there my guide told me how
the lovely Lily had Travelled in this car
| sleeping in it for months at a time and
how she grew to dislike It, But she has
cared enough for it to preserve it for her
own when she visits America.
Il am sorry Richard Mansfleld's Vice
roy is not here" said my guide because
its drawing-room Is the typical gentle
mans study. Nothing about it suggests
the traveller or the actor. There is no bo-
hemianism and no abandon. velvet
covered table holds books, and back OF
the table is piano, upon which rests the
latest music. No manuscripts of PLAYS
are allowed in this room; neither are
newspapers, unless the dramatic pages
are torn out. The master OF 'Yiceroy'
rests here.
There is a car being remodeled," said
| NV Guido. uahout which dara MI