The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-07

ton as it is made for us, and that II we
must go into the hands of receiver, 1T
Is better to have q record for paSsen-
ger equipment equal to the best.
'Where will lit end? l cannot tell
you, and sometimes / dislike to think
about it. If the cost of material the
cost of labor and increased facilities
for manufacturing passenger cars do
not decrease the expense of continued
improvements in the construction of
passenger cars (and this expense con-
tinues to double every twenty-five
years., and passenger revenue does
not increase proportionately, you can,
of course, guess the end as well as
can.
IF we go into the question of special
limited trains, there can be no ques-
ton in the world but what the limited
trains run on the Pennsylvania, Lake
Shore, and Michigan Central lines, and
the Sunset Limited train run on the
Chicago and Alton, consisting of some
five or six cars in all, represent an ac-
tual Investment, independent Of mo-
tive power, of at least $125,000 to each
train, and probably more. The trains
which ! mention represent the finest
trains run on any railroad in the
world. They are the par excellence or
the car-builders' art, and they proba-
bly, average all around in passenger
revenue very much less per mile than
the ordinary every day local train or
four passenger coaches and a baggage
car, which represent an investment OF
about thirty thousand dollars
II can only give you In a general
way some idea Of Pullman cars. 1t
was claimed by Mr. Pullman that in
making experiments within recent
years in combination sleeping cars, a
single car cost him close to forty thou
sand dollars. but it Is generally conce-
ded that a fair average for the most
modern and improved Pullman sleeper
is twenty to twenty-five thousand dol
lars, and it is fair to estimate the cost
of modern dining car at twenty
thousand dollars.
Complaints are not frequent, and
most of the complaints which railway
companies receive with reference TO
their passenger equipment are unrea-
sonable They are usually the result
| of little bitterness brought about by
some misunderstanding in other direc-
lions, and having no reference at all to
| the passenger equipment, but the TEL
| low who has complaint, or who thinks
| that he has not been properly treated,
does not wait to choose his weapons.
He sails right in to the railroad COM
pany, talks about the freight train
time made by it's passenger trains, the
cold and cheerless cattle cars which
are called palace cars and remarks
that he would sooner ride in a street
horse car, without heating facilities
and the thermometer twenty degrees
below zero, than the kind OF a car
which the railroad company furnishes
| to its patrons.
whenever you hear that Kind o.
talk, or some grand orator talk
about grinding rnonopolies,' and cat
tle-car accommodations furnished by
the railroad compares. bear this state
ment in mind, that over ninety-five pei
| cent. Of the travelling public do not
own themselves or live in a rented
house which cost to build the amount
of money which any railroad company
centering in Chicago has put into tht
poorest passenger car in any through
train Chicago Inter- Ocean.