The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29
WHISK WHISPERS
OFF WITH MILES
BARRIERS ON FAST TRAIN SHAVE
CLEAR ACROSS STATE.
View Of Six Towns with Lather, Ten
Miles More and Half Whiskers Gone,
Another Ten Miles and Beard Is in
Wastebasket-Two Miles a Minute in
a Hot Towel DID,"

Some speed impressions were related
yesterday at the office of City Passen-
ger Agent A w. Arnold of the Pennsyl-
Vania lines, at 312 First avenue S, by
a well-known Minreapolitan who had
just returned from d quick business
trip east.
said, "leaving Chicago at 2:45 every
afternoon and arriving at New York
at 9:45 next morning, makes the run in
Just the time outside office hours which
is given ordinarily to the home or to
the club. Not minute is missed from
business-a trip to New York while
getting the usual shave and bath, the
evening dinner, the cigar at the club,
and the night s sleep.
"The Chicago New York eighteen
ty hours from Minneapolis, st. Paul
and Omaha, fortysix from Denver and
Colorado Springs, and less than 100
hours from San Francisco.
|'To realize to some extent what the
swiftest travelling on the globe means,
aote that passenger who goes into the
barber shop, for instance, of the library
cial' leaves Chicago and starts unfast-
ening his collar in Illinois will reach
the BARRIERS chair and Indiana at the
same time; get the lather with a view
Of six towns; ten miles more and half
his whiskers gone; another ten miles
and the rest Of his beard in the waste
basket; do the premium section OF
track from Hobart to Valparaiso at a
two-mile-a minute clip in hot towel,
and wind up with the witchhazel near
~ half way across the state.
"Or take it in the dining car: Pas
sengers sitting down to dinner in lin
diana reach the last course in the mid
die of Ohio-and the service is prompt,
too. Right after the little necks or
blue points comes the bouillon, and a
half Dozen more towns slip past be-
fore diners are ready for the fish and
anchovy. Then they quit the window
tention to prime roast beef, saddle Of
lamb, vegetables, punch, pineapple
souffle and other things with French
name and a good Yankee flavor. Not
drop Of anything spilled to show the
speed at which the dining room is trav
cling With every bite the passenger
takes, the train bites off an acre of
Ohio.
"After dinner madam may want a
button, and there s the maitland a
well-trained maid, too. She does the
rest. A man takes himself off to the
clubroom, and over an after dinner
cigar dictates business correspondence
to the train stenographer, who types
the letters and kilograms and dispatches
them en- route, all gratis. In an a1cove
are desk and stationery if passenger
wants to write a little note to tell a
friend that he's going some doing
a mile every ten words he scribbles-
ninety feet to a pen-stroke-third base
to home in a second slide.
"As distance is. reckoned by travellers
in Belgium, according to the number of
smokes which may be enjoyed en- route,
it is about, two perfectos, from Chicago
to New York. between, dining. and sleep
ing hours. Of all the luxurious smokes
commend a man to the big. easy, Sleepy
Hollow armchairs in The Pennsylvania
Special Understanding car for an
evening of solid comfort. Or at night
on the observation platform. after the
women have retired, give him chair
in a cosy corner under the light from
= the domed CANOPY, while he may look
at the glory of the fAlleghenies by
moonlight and burn incense to the com
pany for granting, the rear platform
smoking privilege. - -