The Seattle Republican., 1900-02-23
N. P.,s Double Service.


General Passenger Agent
Charles S. Fee, of the Northern
Pacific railway, who reached Port
land Tuesday, announced that
April 29 his company will estab-
lish double daily passenger train
service between Portland, Puget
Sound and the Twin cities, st.
Paul and Minneapolis.
The morning train from st. Paul
will leave at 8:55, after the arrival
Of the fast trains from Chicago,
st. Louis and the East, running by
the way of Butte, and will reach
Portland at 7 A. M. The corre-
spending train will leave Portland
at 11:30 A. NJ. by the way Of Butte,
and will reach st. Paul at P. M.
and will be known as the North
Coast Limited"
Train No. 3 will leave st. Paul
as at present, 1895 P. NJ, arriving
at Portland at 8P. NJ. Train No.
4 will leave Portland at 11:30 P.
M. and arrive at St. Paul 7: rs A.
NJ Both 3 and 4 will run by way
of Helena. This schedule will
continue in effect until November
1, and longer if the business justi-
fes it. Trains 3 and 4 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 num-
Der 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 offer
ing the public a service to the
Missouri river country, ST. Louis
and intermediate territory superior
to anything heretofore established.
THE "North Coast Limited"
will be one Of the handsomest and
most complete passenger trains in
the country. With its new 70-foot
baggage and express cars, combi-
nation smoker, new frst-class
coaches, new Pullman tourist
sleepers, handsomely upholstered
i'll dark green leather, thoroughly
modern frst-class sleepers and
elegant dining cars, all wide vesti-
buled, the train might be consider
ed complete. It's chief attractions,
however, will be the thorough
lighting Of the train throughout
by electricity, including two berth
lights for reading in each section,
and an observation-car more COM
plete than anything Of the kind
heretofore constructed. This car,
which will be 70 feet in length,
with a wide and handsomely rallied
rear platform, will have IA uphol-
stored plush chairs, with writing
desk and reading table in the
rear end; a carefully selected
library Of 125 volumes; bathroom
barber shop and buffet in the
center, while in the rear, in addi-
ton to toilet-rooms for men and
women, there will be two smoking
and card rooms, each furnished
with six comfortable chairs and a
folding table. These smoking or
card rooms will be shut off from
the remainder of the car and so
thoroughly ventilated that those
addicted to the weed may indulge
at leisure without attracting undue
attention.
The Northern Pacific manage
ment realize that for short night
runs, as for instance, between St..
Paul and Chicago, where there is
no opportunity to enjoy the really
interesting scenery, a library car
meets the wants Of the traveller,
but on a transcontinental journey
OF 1000 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 observation car
is the car par excellence, and that
nothing else will take it's place.
The North Coast Limited of the
Northern Pacific will be run ex-
clusively in the interest of passen-
gers and, as a consequence, the
observation car will be kept on the
end Of the train for the benefit of
the passengers who have paid their
money and to the disgust possibly
of the "private-car" tourists and
railroad official who is so frequent
ly 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 is to have, and
without extra fare or charge, a
daily transcontinental passenger
service absolutely superior to any
thing heretofore offered him either
in the West or in the East.
The Northern Pacific people
feel confident their enterprise will
be appreciated by the public and
that the large business they have
heretofore enjoyed will be greatly
increased.
The Northern Pacific passenger
business Of the past year has been
very satisfactory, and it is showing
a good increase right along. It
will not seem out Of place that the