The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-12
"A PALACE
ON WHEELS
Atlantic Coast Line Florida StSsst
cial Passes Through
Richmond.
A MOST LUXURIOUS TRAIN
Modern Ingenuity Is Taxed to
Make It the Finest That Goes
From North to South.

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with It's running gear covered with
snow from the wlntry north and with
the interior as warm and luxurious as
modern Invention could make It. q palace
on wheels passed through Richmond last
night like d white ribbon cutting a way
through the darkness of tho north to tho
Land Of Flowers It was the New York
and Florida Special Of the Atlantic Coast
Line, On Its inaugural trip opening tho
annual service Of the Coast Line, taking
t 10 rich tourists to the balmy cllme5 Of
the South.
The elements could not have combined
t. mako q more striking contrast. Fitted
with electric lights, heated by steam and
Astounding with all the comforts Of the
n est luxurious home, the special sped
smoothly along, while without the snow
was driven by a cold northwest wind.
winding and twisting among the wheels
of tho fast flying train and whrling IN
eddies In It's wake AS 1t sped through the
darkness to the sunny CLINE Of the flow
cred South. ISL t%
The train was not exactly on schedule
time when 1t reached the Capita. OF the
C'nnfederacy, but those In charge Of II
predicted that the destination would DO
reached on the minute, and that tho tenn
pcrary guests would reach their haven
of rest at the exact minute which they
calculated on when they read the sched-
ule.
MOVING PALACE.
Nothing more luxurious and palatial
could be imagined than this moving train
OF six coaches and baggage cur. With
! scarcely Jar the train moved along,
and when It passed Richmond at the dead
hour Of night, few besides the newspaper
men. who were special guests of the
company were aware of their where
abouts Most of them were In tho land
Of nod, dreaming peacefully and as COM
fortably as they would have been In
their own homes.
Tho equipment Of the moving palace Is
all that modern ingenuity '.an contrive,
for those who wish to travel in comfort.
IA solid vestibule train. lighted through
out with electricity, kept al comforta-
BILE temperature and supplied with all
the comforts that the most fastidous
could desire. the tourist of the North
who wishes TO seek the more tempcrate
cline of the South can almost enter TIE
Land OF Flowers when he boards the
y Florida Special. f5s aA
The train consists OF six coaches, with
dining cur, one couche for baggage, n
splendid compartment car, sleepers and
observation car. In the latter were the
guests Of the company and other pAssen-
gers. Their comfort nccentuated by the
swlrling storm withQpt, they sat and
watched the storm talgc ii the Il same me
perfect comfort that they would have en-
joyed In their own ;dra wing rooms.
The arrangement and -details of the
train are perfect. In 1.-The baggage coach
is an electric light plant. complete In all
details, which supplies light to every car.
Patrons OF the train can llcin their berths
In the dark, that Induces sleep or IL
restless, al can at Wills turn on a
light and read witht perfect COM
fort. And this can be done with
out in the least incommoding the
occupant of any other berth. Each berth
is fitted with lights which can be turned
on or Oft at will
WE'LL PATRONIZED.
The patronage of the train OH tho first
day augurs well for the business to be
done this season. There was goodly
company aboard when the special pulled
into the Sixth Street depot in the National
Capital and there many more boarded tho
palace, bound for the South.
presented, with fashonably dress women
and equally as we'll dressed men
suung down to tables clothed In lmma-
culate linen. Cut glass and silver spark
led under the electric lights and the sound
of gay laughter could DO heard above
the scarcely perceptiblc rumble Of the fast;
flying train.
The train left New York at 2:1o In the
az ternoon and will arrive at st. Augustine
at 4 o'clock this afternoon The balmy
climate OF Florida will not be more COM
Il rtable TO those who alght than tnertcm-
perature OF tho cars and tho resorts OF
tho South no more luxurious than the
n owing palace which brought them from
the wintry North.