The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-10

ad for relishes, with ice-cream to finish
 up, accompanied by bottle of wine.
 A menu as elaborate as this can be
 quite easily prepared and served as well as in a modern hotel. It is frequently enjoyed by the general manager and | his staff, for there is nothing small
 about the railroad official of to-day.
 He has plenty to do for his assistants,
 but takes care of them equally as well
 as he takes care of himself. They have
 no second table, but are all with the
 manager while on the road. Unless he
 should have a party of friends as
 guests. It is rather monotonous and lonely at times when he is obliged to
 spend four or five days in travelling.
 He cannot talk to his secretary as he
 can talk to an intimate friend, no mat
 ter how confidential may be their rela-
 tions, and is very glad to entertain
 some of the stockholders or directors of l the line. | Many big railroad deal has been ar
 ranged in these private cars. With
 time enough to talk over matters and no
 possibility of being disturbed, except
 by collision or other accident, many an hour in the afternoon or evening can be spent discussing deals which may in- | volVe millions. The average capitalist i or investor is well aware of the comforts | Of travelling in this manner, and has the opportunity if interested in the line to examine the portions over which he passed, and can judge of this or that feature by actual observation, which is
 much better than when thousand
 miles distant
 Private cars are built of the best ma-
 terial and have the latest ideas inclu
 ded in their arrangement. If railroad
 man occupies a position which gives him the right to have a private car, his health is considered of such value that
 everything should be done to preserve
 it, and he should run as little risk as
 possible in case of accident His life is precious from business standpoint if from no other. Then the private car is often used as an experiment to show the
 real value of new ideas in ventilation
 in brakes, heating, lighting, Sc. If they are failures the company does not sui fer the loss from placing them on a number of passenger cars for the same purpose Many company manufac- turing a certain kind of lamps, for in- stance, gladly furnishes number of them free for several months for use in the private car, hoping they may get a big order from the railroad people Consequently while the private car re- presents large amount of money, the railroad company does not always pay as much for it as might be thought. al- though some are running over the big c.xr ,,f Il ,t,.,y ]~ ,,l,s. cost from sixty to seventy-five thousand dollars each. Among these may be mentioned the cars of President Samuel Spencer of the Southern company; also those of President Galloway of the New York Central, James J. Hill of the Great Northern, and several other west ern magnates. These cars are models of their kind and no expense has been spared in any particular. President Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania, travels in a very ordinary-ooking car. It is not gorgeously decorated or furnished. President Spencer's car was designed by himself and built and equipped en- tirely from his own ideas While the cars of the general manager and gene ral superintendent are built purposely for them, the under officials are ire quently obliged to get along with pas senger car from which the seats have been removed and partitions thrown up at an expense of a few hundred dollars There is one, small road in the south | where the private car of the head man [ of a freight caboose which has { been altered for the purpose. It is worth about four hundred dollars.-St | Paul Globe.