The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-12-31
The Chicago and Florida Special.

To induce tourists from the East,
North, and West to visit Florida and
otker Southern resorts, each year the
Southern Railway undertakes to do
little more than in previous years to
make the resorts of Florida and the
South more attractive to the people Of
the East, North, and West and this
season have put in service the best
tourists trains that have ever been
operated in the South.
The first of these trains established
is ssThe Chicago and Florida Special,
first trip southbound, January 5th,
1902. This train will have through
sleepers from Chicago, Pittsburg,
Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati, and
Louisville and are run through to st.
Augustine IN very quick time. Train
will consist of very best Pullman cars,
dining cars and club cars etc. Between
Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Jackson
vile, Florida there will be also pro-
vided on this train frst-class coach,
which will be of much accommodation
to travel between Chattanooga Atlanta,
Macon and Jacksonville. Between
Chattanooga and Jacksonville, the
train will only stop at Rome, Atlanta
and Macon.
Northbound this train will ". St.
Augustine, 8.15 a. n. lv. Jackson
vile, go a. m.; Pass Atlanta, $40
o. m. ar. Cincinnati next morning
at which place the sleeping cars
diverge to various lines reaching
Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pitts
burg, the same afternoon. This
"Chicago and Florida Special was
inaugurated by the Southern Railway
two season ago, but this season the
train will be better than ever before,
and will do very much towards divert
ing the people from Chicago and the
Northwest to resorts of Florida, in
stead OF as heretofore they going to
Mexico, California, etc.
Southern Railway also operates train
known as 1.-The Florida Limited -
which is through train from Cincin
natl to st. Augustine, schedule time
of train between Cincinnati and jack
sonville is tweny-four hours. The
run from Jacksonville to ST. Augustine
is made in an hour. This train has
through sleeper from Cincinnati to ST.
Augustine; Chicago to st. Augustine
via LOUISVILLE: Kansas City to Jack
sonvine via Memphis, Birmingham
and Atlanta.
Northbound, this train will ". st.
Augustine, 6.10 p. m.; ". Jackson
Vile, 7.45 p. m. /; ar. Atlanta, next
morning, ar. Cincinnati, same after
noon.
From the East Southern Railway
will establish first trip Southbound,
January 18th, 1903, their famous
/" Palm Limited which is probably
the finest tourist train in the world.
This train Inbound will ". New
York daily except Sunday 12.40
noon; ar. Jacksonville, 20 p. m. ar.
ST. Augustine, $50 p. m.
Northbound, this train will ". st.
Augustine daily except Sunday lilo
a. m.; ". Jacksonville, 1920 p. m;
Ar. New York, 4.13 p. m.
This train, the palm Limited, F." in
addition to double daily service operat-
ed all-year-round between New York
and Jacksonville via the Southern
Railway. 1t is hard to describe the
magnifcence of these special FLORIDA
trains as run by the Southern Railway !;
about all that can be said Of them
is, that they are composed Of the
finest cars that the Pullman Company
can build. W. II. Tayloe,
Assistant General Passenger Agent.
Gen. Miles is having great time in
China who're he iS being treated as