The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-26
THE HONOR GOES TO OHIO
ELECTRIC LINE OF THAT STATE
WILL RUN FIRST SLEEPING CAR.
indianapolis Company, with a Capital
of 81 100000, VIII Manufacture
the Holland Sleeper.

The Columbus. London & Springfield
Railway Company, of Columbus, o., will
be the first to establish sleeping-car serv-
ice on interurban electric lines. Mr.. r.
Emory. general manager of the company,
says that ii is expected to put the sleepers
in service in July, and thorough trial
made OF their practicability. The company
is making no rash promises, feeling that
so radical an innovation must be considered
as an experiment. The sleeping cars will
be run between Columbus and Cincinnati,
leaving between 10 and IL o'clock at night.
These cars will be operated by the Hol-
land Palace Car Company, OF indianapolis,
which was organized Jan. II, 1903. This
company, which has a capital of s1.0o00o0.
will build cars under the Holland patent.
1t was the intention TO build a single car
and use it for exhibition purposes, but there
was an immediate demand for two cars to
put in practical service. and these are now
being built at the plant Of the Harlan &
Hollingsworth Company, Wilmington, Del,
under the direction of the Holland COM
pany's mechanical engineer. Mr.. Mason
Rickert. 1t is very probable that before
these first two cars can be delivered orders
will be placed for several others as the
much interested in the new service.
1t is not the purpose of the Holland Com
pany to sell these cars, but instead to op-
crate them for the electric roads In the
same manner as sleeping cars are operated
on the steam roads, the Holland Company
TO own all cars. The cars now being built
are the Theodore and the Francis.
These will be operated at night as COM
partment sleeping cars. The compartments
are on each side Of a center aisle, there
being in each car ten compartments feet
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There will be one upper and one lower
berth in each compartment each q inches
wide Irregular steamer size. allowing
15-inch dressing space between berth and
aisle. The partition which forms the COM
partment is OF the same material and is
operated on the same principle as roll-top
desk and is entirely out of sight in the day
time, which arrangement gives open
parlor car with twenty revolving parlor
car chairs. The inside of the petition is COW
cred with handsome tapestry, the window
shades of the same material and the cur
tains in the doorways also of the same,
making the compartment a handsome ia
pestry room. The interior decorations OF
these cars are of inlaid mahogany and
brass. The smoking room and mems toilet
are at one end and the ladies' toilet at the
other. The minor equipment will include
electric curling irons for the use of lady
passengers; electric cigar lighters in the
smoking room: electric fans at each end in
the main body of the car to be operated
during the day; electric heaters for each
compartment TO be controlled by the &C.
cupant of the compartment, there being
three degrees of heat These cars are SO
feet inches long over all and will be fur
nished with their own motors, each car hav-
ing four 150-horse-power motors. making 600
horsepower per car, geared for sixty-fve
or seventy-five miles per hour. These cars
will be painted maroon. which color the
company has adopted for all of its cars in
the future; uniforms for the employees will
be dark green, which color has also been
adopted as the standard.
The Holland Company has gone into this
business with a view of giving the public
the best accommodations that can be OBJ
tanned on sleeping car, and while there
have been many fine and handsome sleeping
cars built in the last few years, 1T is be-
lieved that there has been nothing built
that surpasses the cars which ii is intended
to furnish to the electric roads.
The officers of the Holland Palace Car
Company are: Harris F. Holland, president;
Amos K. Holfowell vice president; Joseph
w. Sewage, secretary and treasurer; AMI
L. Wheeler assistant secretary and treas
urer, and James E. Mccullough, general
counsel, all of this city.