The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-14
TEXAS WILL BOYCOTT THE Ex.
POSITION
MAGNIFICENT TRAIN
Three puIima,. Sss
Cars Turned out of the Atlantic Cass
Line shops iu hits. CITY

\ train OF three very handsome Pull
man standard vestibuled cars has been
completed mt the Atlantic Coast Line
car shops in this city and yesterday
they were hauled out on the tracks and
run under the car shed.
No finer cars OF their class can be
produced in a shops in the United
States, north or south. They were
buit by our home mechanics, and the
quality OF workmanship and painting
is unsurpassed. The work Il a posi-
NV credit to the men In the shops and
will give a reputation TO Wilmington
for car building.
The train consists OF "a irst-claxs
passenger a Of the standard width
and sixty feet in length. inside meas
urement; a combination baggage and
smoking car, and a combination mail
and express car. The two latter cars
are hfty-ive feet in length. inside
measurements.
The seats in the first-class and COM
blnation cars are OF the latest i'm
proved pattern. The cushions and backs
are made Of olive colored plush. and
h seats are exceedingly comfortable.
with an easy rest for the head. The
nrSt-class coach has seating capacity
Tor seventy-two passengers, and IL
and the combination car are equipped
with the latest improved lavatorfes and
closets. The inside finish of the cars
is polished quarter sawed oak, and
the overhead lining Is wood pulp put
up In large sections. The windows arc
larger than the ordinary car window
and are a great Improvement over the
old style window. They can be put up
and down by a child, can Dc hoIsted
any heighth without catches, and mash
ed fingers n profanity are done away
with by the ease with which they can
be handled. There will be no such
thing as having to call the porter to
prize up a window with a crow bar.
The upper glass Is gothic in style and
mirror finish, embossed with costly gold
and silver trimmings. The tops OF the
cars are open and airy, and all are
equipped with the latest improved style
OF lamps, giving light equal In candle
power to gas light. There are twelve
| lights in the first-class coach-
All the cars are painted in Olive
green on the outside, and they arc
| equipped with steele plate platforms
I, with long stem automatic couplers, in
| stead Of the old style wooden platforms
| and short couplers. The cars are 30
constructed On h ends that In cass
/ OF an accident IL is impossihSe for them
to be teleScoped- The running gear or
the train also embraces numerous ip@
proved features, including long W.
base trucks with inside brakes.
car Is handsomely 1ettered In gold Oh
the outside, the words Atlantic Coast
Line and New York and Augusta
being conspicuous ON both sides. The
train will be run between Florence and
Augusta, and wifi be sent out in a few
days, when the Coast Lines extension
from Denmark to Robbins is sur.
faced up sufficiently to warrant
regular schedule.
The Coast Lines shops here are now
complete, all the improvement havens
been finished and the machiner,
placed. More men are now empeMHeC
than ave ever been at work in TIN
shops before, the force consisting OF $50
In addition to the magnificent tralI
just completed, the shops are now hl
ing an order for 300 box and fat car
Of the most modern pattern