The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
TROLLEY SLEEPING CARS
THE FIRST EVER BUILT ARE NAMED
sINDIANA, AND "FRANCIs.-
Expected tn BE Put I'm Service Sept. II
on the Lines Between IndianapO-
lis and Columbus, o.
Brooklyn Eagle.

Brooklyn Eagle.
Finishing touches were put on the first
electric sleeping cars ever built-the troll
ley sleepers the Indiana and Francis-yes-
terday. According TO present plans they
will make their first trips September Is.
and will be put into regular service between
Indianapolis. Ind. and Columbus. o. Or
ders have been placed for twenty-four more
sleeping cars and combination sleepers and
diners. and within eight months the ser
vice, which will be begun out OF In6ianap-
oils to Columbus. will be extended to Wheel.
ing, W. Va, and Pittsburg, a distance
of 400 miles TO the east: TO Cleveland and
Buffalo, almost as great distance northeast.
and from Cincinnati to Toledo and Detroit
and around the Lake Erie front TO Cleve-
land. SIeepers will also be running be-
tween Chicago and Cincinnati via Indianap-
oils, within eighteen months, and IL the
plans of the Boston capitalists known az
the "Appleyard Syndicate" are worked out.
the sleepers and combination sleepers and
diners will be operated between Augusta.
Me-, and Chicago and st. Louis within three
years. 1t is thought that service viii be
opened between St. Louis and Pittsburg
within eighteen months.
Clearly the introduction of the sleeping
car service between Indianapolis and Column
bus, o., in September this year marks an
epoch in transportation and the trolley men
themselves say neither they nor even the
most extravagant dreamer can forecast
what will follow in five years. IL Is a singu-
lar coincidence that the first trolley sleepers
are being built in the very shops In which
the first Pullman car was built IT Is also
significant that the builders OF the trolley
sleeper have already entered an agreement
with the Pullman Company whereby the
latter will not make trolley sleepers and the
trolley sleeping car company will not let
its space saving inventions go into the
steam road service.
FEATURES OF THE CARS.
The trolley sleepers are being built by the
Holland Palace Car Company, which is
composed of Indiana men and capitalized
at s1,0OO,0O0. II is headed by Harris +.
Holland, inventor Of the new car. The cars
will be owned and operated by the COM
pany identicaIly the same as the Pullman
Company owns and operates its cars over
the steam roads. The cars will be geared
to run sixty miles an hour. The smallest
will have twenty berths made into ten
compartments. The comfort OF passengers
is provided for. even to the extent OF cleo
the women. electric cigar lighters for the
men. Each compartment will be equipped
| with electrical appliances whereby the
lights in that compartment can be raised
and lowered or put out. Each compart-
| ment will be ventilated separately and
windows will be raised and lowered by
| pushing buttons. And when the nights
| ride is over all compartments viii be rolled
| into the walls and into the floor. the beds
| will fold into parlor car chairs and the car
will he taafh hfrCr IaEE
car
In addition to these features a special one
| is made of having large women's toilet
| rooms. though all will have compartments
! in which they can stand while dressing and
| can lock a door on their possessions. All
| berths are single ones-four feet wide The
| car in every particular is an entirely new
| idea in sleepers. The combination sleepers
and diners simply have a ten-foot compart-
| ment added-placed between the berths are
the rear retiring rooms. Temporary tables
| will be placed between chairs. The service
| will be quite as complete and elegant as
| given now In steam road dining cars.
! The compartments for the night runs are
made with mahogany rolls-similar to the
| roll tops used in desks They come up out
| of brass slots in the floor and dovetail into
| and fasten each other when up, making
| perfectly rigid and elegant wall, with a
doorway. The upper berth is let down from
| the wall on the same principle that il en-
| ployed in the Pullman sleeper. The ele-
| gantly upholstered chair Of the day parlor
| car, however. is a revelation. Two of these
| chairs are faced. By pressing a hidden
| spring the arms spread out and become
into one box spring mattress bed, four feet
wide and seven feet long. The beds and
| compartments can be made up quickly and
the entire car converted into a parlor car
| Tor the day run in less than half hour. A
porter and a maid will run with each Sleep
er. IL It's rs e, elaimea s f9r the sleeper .nat S tne
| man sleeper and the extra inducement will
lie in the fact that each traveller, or two
travellers. will have complete compart-
ment
COST OF RIDING.
The cost Of riding in such a car will be q
revelation to the sleeping travelling public.
The run from Indianapolis TO Columbus,
o., $50 miles, will be made between IL
at night and $50 in the morning. The cars
will be standing on the sidings and open at
o'clock. For the nights run an entire
compartment can be had for S. Single
berths will cost 81, but two persons buying
compartment together can get ii for the
$s The regular interurban fare between the
two points will be charged. Approximately
it is 50. This will make the fare and sleeper
for one person s6. for two persons buying to-
gether $4.5e. or one person buying one berth
s.. The steam roads day coach fare is $50
This will be new kind of competition for
the steam roads and there Is great deal
| VI opcSooacH 90 ~ "iAoA Will 10 hfiS Wv
come.
In addition to the inducement Of prac-
tically giving away a nights rest in a sleep
ing car, IL Is announced that the dining
charges for the combination service viii
also be moderate. IL is known that the
traction roads have no DUST cinders mol
smoke 10 contend with. IL is thought thai
the sleeping car windows can be left wide
open on hot nights. liz is expected thai
all these points of advantage will catch the
commercial trade Though no trunks vii
be carried on the sleepers and none will bs
carried free. they will be taken through In
| the night on the regular limited trains thai
Will be put into service, and the expires:
charges VIII be very small-probably =
cents for each trunk for the $50 miles.
The Appfeyard Syndicate, which Is stand.
ing sponsor for the new service. Is SO san
guine OF the results. that IL Is pushing
every energy TO extend the sleeping cal
service TO Pittsburg. Cleveland. Cincinnati
and Toledo at the earliest possible date
When the Pittsburg line is opened the cars
. will have to leave the Indianapolis and
Pittsburg terminals about o'clock and viii
cover the 400 miles through Dayton. Spring
field, Columbus and Wheeling so as 10 ar
rive at the opposite terminals at or
O'Clock the next morning. In order TO geir
, time In getting entrance TO Wheeling and
Pittsburg, the narrow gauge Ohio River a
: Western steam road between Wheeling ant
GAINESVILLE. o., has been purchased. Th'
lines are connected now between Indian
apoiis and Newark, which Is thrty-fiv'
/, miles east of Columbus The AppleyarS
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