Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-05-24
sLpeRs CITY ON WHEELS.
Chicago Portland Special Ultra
Of Trains.

Of Trains.
Nineteenth-century civilization cul.
inmates in the peifecting press, the
telegraph. the ocean steamer and the
limited.express train. The progress
Of region or people is measured by
its facilities for the diffusion OF intelli.
gence, and its methods OF transporta.
ton. Judged by this standard. no part
of the United States, or OF the world,
has advanced more rapidly than the
great American West.
Today. the whole vast half-hemi.
sphere, from the Mississippi to the
Pacific, is girdled with electric wires,
and grilironed with railways that in
all the essentials of speed, safety and
comfort, amounting to luxuriousness.
are unsurpassed anywhere in the old
world or the new. In all the refine.
ments OF travel. the West is fast over.
hauling the boastfully fastidious East.
The new double.daily flyer be.
tween Portland and Chicago, via
Huntington, Granger and Omaha.
1t is incomparably the finest trans.
continental train in the history OF
American railroading, and, con.
sidering all the circumstances and con.
ditions-the vast distances, and. the
wild and rugged character OF a large
part of the country to be traversed-it
may safely challenge comparison with
the best trains that fly between the
great cities of the Atlantic coast. 1t
has been christened 1.-The Chicago.
Portland Special"
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company and its connections combine
to form and operate this magnificent
annihilator Of time and space, and
they have spared no pains or expense to
enhance the comfort of the translucent.
spheric journey, while they diminish
its duration to the least possible mini
mum of time. Nothing that taste could
suggest, ingenuity devise. skill con.
struct, or lavish money pay for, has
been left undone to render the fight
across 2,3l4 miles OF mountain and
plain a pleasure to the most delicate
and fastidious traveller.
The whole train is uniform In color
and style. Every car is finished ex.
ternally in dark olive green and gold.
and ON every one is emblazoned IN
golden characters Chicago Portland
Special" Next to the mighty 12O.ton
locomotive come the mail, express and
baggage cars. Then follow, in the
order named, the composite or buffet
car. the Pullman and tourist sleepers.
dining car, two reclining chair cars
and day coach or smoker. All have
been designed and built expressly for
this model train, and all are models of
their kind. The buffet car is a clear
case OF multum- in parvo or e-pluribus-
unum on wheels. containing library,
elegantly furnished reading room, writ.
ing desks. card tables, cafe and bar.
barbershop and bathroom, with trained
attendants always at command. The
Pullman sleeping car is veritable pal
ace of dreams, on which cunning artiti-
GERS in brass and glass, and precious
woods and tapestries, have exhausted
:heir genius and skill.
The ordinary or tourist sleeper is ex.
traordinary considering the prices
charged for its Accommodations. 1t Is
in every respect equal to the best Pull.
man car Of few years ago, and 300.
mile sleep in one of it's snowy. linened
and daintily comfortable beds costs no
more than nights lodging in any
average provincial tavern. The dining
Car is a flying banquet hall, equipped
with every modern improvement and
convenience to be found in first class
metropolitan restaurant, and serving
an epicurean menu la carte as cheap.
ly as though so or IS mi les of glorious
scenery were not thrown in with every
meal, as an esthetic aid to appetite and
digestion. The chair cars are hand.
somely finished and furnished, and offer
many advantages free to those who.
from any cause, decline to avail them.
selves of the sleepers. They are car.
peted, brilliantly lighted, abundantly
supplied with clean towels, and other
toilet accessories. and each car is in
charge of a trained and uniformed por.
ter. One or two tirst-class day coaches
in the rear of the chair cars complete
this paragon of cross. continent trains.
The heaviest and most powerfully
built cars, like the sleepers and buffet
cars, are always placed in front. and
those of lighter construction in the
rear, as a precaution in case of acct.
dents-where serious accidents have
never vet occurred. Second.class pas.
sengers are carried at second.c class
rates. but there is not second.class
car in the train. From engine to hind
most day coach, everything is first.
class of its kind, and it's kind is unsur-
passed. 1t il q solidly vestibuled train
OF flying palaces, where every man is
sovereign, and every woman is u queen,
who holds either first or second.class
ticket. The trip from Portland to
Chicago ia a 2,3l4.mile long panorama
of all that is suhlimest and most en-
chanting in natures glorious handi.
work, and the time is little short Of
creased lightning. The whole wonder.
Gus journey OF 2,3l4 miles from the
golden slopes OF the Pacific to the
windswept shores of the Great lakes, is
accomplished in ~ hours and 10 min.
utes-a reduction OF IL hours and Is
minutes from the fastest time ever
made heretofore-and of this the actual
RAINING time is but tribe over SO
hours, showing an average speed across