Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-06-06

The same equipment will be run on
each night train, so that passengers
over the "Straight-Away Line" will
always be assured of the best that is
to be had.
The train is archaeological and steam
heated throughout. The incandes-
cent current for the lights will be
furnished from a direct connected gen
orator in the baggage car, and the
locomotive will supply the steam for
all purposes. In architecture the cars
are all of the most modem type, with
oblong stained and loaded glass win
dows for ornamental purpose, and very
large square windows in the body of
the car. The equipment consists of
two frst-class sleepers of the most
modern and richly appointed type, a
frst-class coach finished in almost as
costly a style as the s%leepers, a second
class coach and a baggage coach, all
painted in the standard South Shore
vermilion, lettered in gold, and of
uniform style from front to back.
All the cars making up the train
are equipped with the Gould wide
vestibules and couplers, and Allen
paperS steel tired wheels, which are
tn, acme of modern ca.-building art.
One great beauty Of the new sleep
ers is that they are four inches higher
than the standard sleeper, which al
lows two inches more head room for
, both upper and lower berths. People
t who have often cracked their heads in
getting into their berth. will appre-
ciate this. The sleepers, which
were made by the Barney & Smith
t company, Dayton, Ohio are equipped
with standard steel platforms and the
) Barney & Smith anti -telescoping de-
vice, which make the frame work
practically indestructible in case Of
accident.
The interior architecture is of the
Empire period, but instead of brass,
: which was originally employed with
it, the builders have used marquetry
or inlaid work for ornamenting the
woodwork. 2The main room, cor
ridors and toilet rooms are done in
st. Jago mahogany, and the state
room in prima vera or white mahog-
any. The seats are made with
l curved ends, an innovation in Sleep
r ing car building. The windows are
8 half elliptical in form, with tapering
arches beautifully inlaid with mar
quetry and supported by corbels.
/: The glass is rich cathedral, heavily
loaded. In o1der not to detract from
the windows onamentation, ceiling
decorations have been omitted and a
soft geen has been substituted. Will
ton carpets, frieze plush window
shades and draperies of a delicate
green harmonic with and compile
ment the shade Of the rich st. Jago
mahogany. Each berth and seat are
!, fitted with a reading electric light,
and the builders claim the cars are the
acme of the modern car building art.
The day coach is, of course, lighted
, with electricity, something almost
. unknown on trains that do not charge
excess fare. It is finished in Mexican
mahagony.I. The seats are of the
high-back type, upholstered in the
richest plush obtainable. It has
toilet rooms in each end fitted up as
! finely as if it were a Pullman car.
The second class coaches carries out
!, the same general style of interior
finish as the frst-c class car, except that
it is finished in quarter-sawed oak in
stead of mahagony. The seats are
upholstered in rattan. It is lighted
with electricity, and toilet rooms are
provided at each end. The day
coaches were made by the American
Car and Foundry company, Of Jeffer-
sonville, Ind.
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