The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-19
THE FINEST TRAINS THAT RUN.
PLANT SYSTEM AND f. c. AND p.
VESTIBULES ARE NOW ON.

tenn Leaves New York Thirty Min
utes After the h. c. and P.-sOIid
VestibuIed PuIImans throughout.
Roth Are Palaces ON WheeIs-SiNty
Tourists on One and Fifty-TwO on
the other.
The vestibuled trains of the Plant Sys-
tenn and the Florida Central and PENN
sular Railroad passed through Savannah
yesterday morning en- route from New
York to ST. Augustine Each train, de-
spite the fact that the real opening of
the tourist season is just beginning, had
good crowd aboard. The trips of both
trains were made without accident and on
time the fact of their being the first run
not seeming to make any differences in the
effective handling of the trains
Both made quick time. The schedules
are fast and but few stops are made, Only
important places junction points and those
required by the law are recognized. 9th
ers are run past with no other intima-
ton than the whistle of the locomotives.
An average speed, including stops, of about
forty-two miles an hour is made by each
train.
The Plant System makes the run from
New York to Jacksonville, where both
arrive at the same time, in less time by
half an hour than the Florida Central
and Peninsular. The officials of the lat
ter road say that this is owing to the fact
of the Southern, the middle link of the
lines Of the route between here and New
York, as the Atlantic Coast Line is of
fnc q
mountains, The steep grades make it inn
possible to run at a high rate of speed,
while the level country through which the
Coast Line runs makes speed easy. Both
routes have solid. easy roadbeds. and
travelling over them is attended with but
very little rocking or jolung.
The Plant System train left New York
at 1920 p. m. day before yesterday and
arrived here at 9:01 yesterday morning.
This schedule is quicker by more than an
/ hour than that made by the train last
year.
This train and that Of the Florida Cen
trail and Peninsular, arrive at Jackson
vile at lilo p. m, that of the Plant Sys-
TEN thus making the trip in twenty-four
! hours and fifty minutes. When they
reach Jacksonville they are combined and
! pulled by a Florida East Coast engine TO
! ST. Augustine" where they arrive at 2:20
/ p. m.
The Florida Central and Peninsular train
| leaves New York at 11.50 m ana ar
| rives here at 9.24 the newt roorning T2n-
! tUaen here ana TaolrsonyilIo tba IT1oria.
/ Central and Peninsular route is shorter
than that of the Plant System, and it is
/ for this reason that the former is able
/ difference in the Time of arrival bare Of
the two trains ana in Jacl,sonville Of tbe
same time
!
Tho plant Svs+o,,,s so1ia ,o.t,I,,,,e1
train the "Florida sneciai' ;, arrived in
Savannah at 9:O1 O'Clock with sixty mas
| seneers
AS this trim marks tbe beeirnipr Of A.
tourist travel ana 10 tbereforo Of oo,sido
| erahle moment IN savannah ~ v,oe nor ~,
! natural that many, wore at Tho station 70
view the magnificent train of Pullman
sleepers and dining cars. all of which nave
inst been tboroua6lv renovated and haa,,-
titled for this important service
| The train was composed Of seven cars
| all of which were luxuriouslv eo1Iinned
| sleeners with the execution Of tba dinino.
| car and a combfnatio oar fo, l,a,rora o.. ord
| generating electric mower The train 1re-
| sents a handsome appearance and was
greatly admired at PHILADELPHIA. Balti-
| more washington Richmond and in fact
at all places where seen along the Penn
svlvania Seaboard Air Line and Plant
/ systems over which the train uassed
The banDv fresh invigorafed faces Of
the messengers. when seen bv a Morning
! News reporter as thew were arousing near
Charleston. certainly emphasized the great
! change from the hardshiDs of former dav
travel when a tourney from New York
TO Florida was considered irksome. to that
| If the present dav when ease. luxury and
| beantv surround the traveller to make the
| journey a pleasant one.
The nerfectly built steamboat vestibules
made If Dossib,e TO keep the passengers in
a welI-repulated shaft of air: the temper
atnra of which was closely watched by
Electrician Murray, who made frequent
trims through the cars inspecting the Their
,r,nyoeters Nothing conduces more to
tbo comfort of travellers than a steady
tan,neratrre which is recognized in the
snanjol nrovisions made to maintain it on
! * TIorido sneciaI
''i Dosidos having the regulation of the tenn
,>aro3,,ro in charge the electrician also
r',rs tbo litt1e engine and DYNAMO in the
n aorrI car which generates the
49,. co., electric lights He is perfectIv
Ssr,t,ior Win the ronte and when the train
aa4arr q tnnnel the old custom of narties
oii,otii,,a, on seata. 10 light oil Iamps is
ot'nI,1nood ond in lien of This the cleo
9niaia1, tI,.,s Tho hinton and at once con-
- ieie'i - darlrnase n 1ioht nv the brill
49, at 80 incondescant Iiobts
i'' NJ I,,iiroar C,oronanv conside, This ona