Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-24
North Coast Limited.

pSlleIdl dSSengef agent CHdIleS ..
Fee, OF the Northern Pacific Railway,
who reached Portland Thursday, an
nounced that April - his company Will
establish double daily passenger train
service between Portland, Puget Sound
and the Twin cities, St Paul and Min
neapolis
The morning train from st. Paul will
leave at 8 :55, after the arrival OF the fast
trains from Chicago, ST. Ionis and the
east, running by the wav Of Butte, and
VIII reach Portland at a. m. The cor
responding train will leave Portland at
II: 80 a. IN. by the wav Of Butte, and
Wit reach st. Paul at y. an and will be
known as the "North Coast limited"
Train No, 3 will leave St Paul as ut
present, 1926 p. m. arriving at Port
land at p. m. Train Nc 4 will leave
Portland at IL 80 p. IN. and arrive at St.
Paul 40 a. m. Both 3 and will run
by iay of of Helena. This schedule will
continue in effect until Novemb be. l, and
longer if business justities it. Trains
3 and 4 will carry the same equipment
as present | and 2, first and second-olass
coaches, Pullman first -class and Pullman
tourist sleepers and dining cars, with
the usual number of mail express and
baggage cars. These trains will carry
standard and tourist sleepers from and to
St. Louis by the Billings route, the
Burlington" thus Offering the public
a service TO the Missouri river country,
St. LOUIS and =itermediate territory SUI
pelior TO anything heretofore estab
tabIished.
The North Coast Limited" will be
one OF the handsomest and most com
plete passenger train in the country
With its new 70-foot baggage and ex-
press Gals, combination smoker. new
frst-cass coaches, new Pullman tourist
sIeepers, handsomely upholstered in
dark green leather, thoroughly modern
tirst-cass sleepers and elegant dining
cars, all wide vestibuled, the train might
be considered complete. Its chief at
fractions, however, will be the thorough
lighting of the train throughout by cleo
trlclty, including two berth lights for
reading in each section, and an obseva-
ton car more complete than anything
OF the kind heretofore constructed. This
car, which will be 20 feet in length, with
wide and handsomely rallied rear plat
form, will have IA upholstered plush
chairs, with writing desk and reading
table in the rear end; carefully Sc
leCted library of l25 volumes bath
room, barber shop and buffet in the cen
ter while IN the rear, in addition to
toilet rooms Tor men and women, there
Will be two smoking and card rooms,
each furnished with six comfortable
chairs and folding table. These smok-
ing or card rooms Will be shut off from
the remainder of the car and so thor
Oughly ventilated that those addicted to
the weed may indulge at leisure without
attracting undue attention.
The Northern Pacific management re-
allze that for short night runs, as for in
stance, between st. Panl and Chicago.
where there Is no opportunity to enjoy
the really interesting scenery, library
car meets the wants of the traveller, but
on transcontinential journey Of 2000
miles or more, where the passenger
hopes to see something of the country
through which he is passing, perhaps
for the first time, they hold that the OBJ
servation car is the car par excellence,
and that nothing else will take its place.
The North Coast Limited" of the
Northern Pacific will run exclusively
in the interest of the passengers and ,as a
consequence, the observation car will be
kept on the end OF the train for the ben
eft OF the passengers who have paid
their money and to the disgust possibly
of the "priyate-car" tourists and rail
road official who is so frequently in ev-
idence. President Melen says that
neither his own private car nor the pri-
vate ears OF other officials or people will
be hauled on this train
The Northern Pacific passenger bust
ness of the past year has boon very salts
factory, and it is showing good increase
right along. 1t will not seem out of
place that the Northern Pacific railway
should inuagerate this service, especial
~ when it is borne in mind that the
earnings of the passenger trains for the
past year show a greater revenue per
train mile than any other road in the
United States or Canada Oregonian,
Feb. II.