Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-02
u February Il.
S "NORTH COAST LIMITED"
Title Of New Train Arranged by the
& Northern Pacific.
It Will Garry an Observation Car Be
N tween Portland and st. Paul
n Modern improvement.

n General Passenger Agent Charles
s. Fee, of the Northern Pacific rail.
way, who reached Portland Thurs
day, announced that April 20 his
company will establish n double
daily passenger train service be-
tween Portland, Puget sound and
the Twin Cities, st. Paul and Mime
apolis.
H. The morning train from St. Paul
will leave at $3.50, after the arrival of
the fast trains from Chicago, st.
Louis and the East, running by way
OF Butte, and will reach Portland at
"a. m. The corresponding train
will leave Portland at 80 a. m. by
the way OF Butte, and will reach st.
Paul at 3 p. m. and will be known
as the 'North Coast Limited"
| : Train No. will leave st. Paul as
at present. 1926 p. M, arriving at
| Portland at 3 y. III. Train No4 will
leave Portland at 1870 p. m. and ar
rive at st. Paul at Z: Is a. m. Both
and 4 will run by way OF Helena.
This schedule will continue in effect
until November I. and longer If the
business justifies it. Trains 3 and
will carry the same equipment as
present l and 2, first and second
class 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
Huntington" thus Offering the pub
lie q service to the Missouri river
country, St. Louis and intermediate
territory superiC to anything here
tofore established.
The "North Coast Limited'' will
be one of the handsompst and most
complete passenger trains in the
country. With it's new 7-foot bag
gage and express cars, combination
smoker, new first-class coaches new
| Pullman tourist sleepers, handsome
ly upholstered in dark green leather,
thoroughly modern first-class Sleep
ers and elegant dining cars, all wide
vestibuled the train might be con-
sldered complete. Its chief attrac.
tions, no wever, will be the thorough
Fighting of the train throughout by
Electricity, including two berth
Flights for reading in each section,
and an observation.e ear more COM
plete than anything of the kind here
10 ore constructed. This car, which
will be 20 feet in length, with a wide
and handsomely rallied rear plat
form, will have IA upholstered plush
chairs. with writing desk and read
ing, table in the rear end; carefully
selected library OF 125 volumes; bath
room, barber shop and buffet in the
centre, while in the rear, in addition
to toilet rooms for men and women,
there " ill he two smoking and card
rooms, each furnished with six COM
Portable chairs and a folding table.
These smoking or card rooms will
be shut off from the remainder of
the car and 80 thoroughly ventilated
that those addicted to the weed
may indulge at leisure without at
tracing undue attention.
The Northern Pacific management
realize that for short night runs, as
/ for instance, between St. Paul and
Chicago, where there is no oppOr-
Unity to enjoy the really interesting
scenery, IL library car meets the
wants of the traveller, but on Il
trans-continental journey of 20N'
miles or more, where the passenger
hopes to see something CT the coun-
try through which he is passing,
perhaps for the first time, they hold
that the observation car par excel
lence, and that nothing else will
take it's place. The NORTH Coast
Limited of the Northern Pacific,
will be run exclusively in the inter-
est of passengers and as a conse-
ouence. the observation car will he
kept on the end Of the train for the
benefit OF the passengers who have
paid their mony and to the disgust
possibly of the ''private carr tour
lists and railroad official who is so
frequently in evidence. President
Mellen says that neither his own
private car nor the private cars OF
other officials or people will be
hauled on this train.
Thus. for the first time the trans
continental traveller ia to have, and
without extra fare or charge. a
daily trans-continental passenger
service absolutely superior to any
thing heretofore offered him either in
rhe West or in the East.
The Northern Pacific people feel
confident their enterprise will be ap-
Dreciated by the public and that the
, large business they have heretofore
! enjoyed will be greatly increased.
The Northern Pacific paese1 ger
business of the past year ht . b en-