Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1903-09-26
TROLLEY SLEEPING CAR
Unique Build of Vehicle Design
ed For Night and Day Use.
EASILY TURNED INTO PARLoR OAR

Head OF q BOSTON runway lSymOAC1Ne
Believes That Two Years VIII See
Service Between the Hub and New
York-The Run Will BE Made In
About Ten Hours.
A through electric service between
New York and Boston, in parlor, din
ing and sleeping cars, will be in opera
ton within two years. This is the con
fident prediction of James f. Shaw,
president of the Boston and Worcester
Electric railway, says the New York
Herald.
Tracks on land owned by railway
corporation are now being built from
Worcester to Hartford, distance of
sixty miles. From Hartford this line
will be continued to New Haven, forty
miles farther. From City Hall square,
in New York, a four track line is to
run to Port Chester. The line between
Port Chester and New Haven will COM
plete the system that will give Boston
through service to Gotham.
With the completion of this line it is
Boston will be able to take the trip
between the two cities in only twice
the running time of the present steam
railroads at half the expense and in
modern sleeping and parlor cars.
Finishing touches have already been
put by a Boston syndicate on the first
two trolley sleepers ever built, which
are to make their first trips during the
present month between Indianapolis,
Ind, and Columbus, O. Twenty four
more of these cars are in process Of
construction.
Over the Boston and New York line
will run magnificent cars not unlike
those that are to be put in operation
in the west. The cars are being built
by car company in Indiana which
will own and operate these just as the
Pullman company owns and operates
it's cars over the steam roads.
The smallest of the sleeping cars will
contain twenty berths. The compart-
ments for each pair of berths are made
by dropping mahogany shutters similar
are drawn out of the sides and floor
and dovetail into each other when up,
making perfectly rigid and firm wall
with doorway. The upper berth is
let down from the ceiling on the same
principle as is used in the Pullman.
Comfortable upholstered chairs, used
in the day parlor car, will be combined
to make the lower berth bed. Two of
these chairs are put face to face. By
pressing a spring the arms spread out,
the chairs then becoming one box
spring mattress bed. four feet wide
and seven feet long. Every modern
is to be provided for the
passengers, even electric hair curriers'
for women and electric cigar lighters
for men. Each compartment will be
ventilated separately. and windows
will be raised and lowered by pressing
a button
When the nights ride is over the
of the compartments will
be rolled into the walls and into the
floor, the beds will be folded into
chairs, and the car will be transformed
into a vestibuled coach within half an
hour.
The combination sleeping and dining
cars will have ten foot apartment
added between the berths and the rear
PRESSING room. Temporary tables will
be placed between chairs. 1t is claim
I'd for the sleepers that the sleeping
will be superior to those
Used in the ordinary Pullman The
cost of riding will be far less than the
'ates charged in the Others During a
nights run from Boston to New York
t will be possible to obtain an entire
for So. Single berths
will cost So. but two travellers occu-
)ying the same compartment can get
t for 81.
10 cinders and dust will be obviated,
he car windows of the sleeper may be
eft open all night. Over the Boston
md New York electric line the cars
will be run at about half the speed at
aimed by the steam roads.
Each car will be fifty to sixty-five
eet long and will cost $4,000. 1t will
re about two-thirds as heavy as the
equation Pullman sleeper. The power
Inder these sleepers will be four mo-
ors, one to each axle, generating 600
lorse power and capable of an ordi-
ary rate of sixty miles an hour.
This new development of the trolley |
5 only a natural step in the wonderful
rogress of electric transportation, and.
n fact, has been foreshadowed by ex-
eriments in both this country and
broad. Few persons realize that it
; only sixteen years since the first
car was given trial.