The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-14

Is something like twelve hours better
than the conventional schedule of Gu
ban-bound travel .., :"~-e
AS each successive train is turned out
by the Pullman company it seems to
have reached the limit Of perfection,
yet the two Havana Limited trains are
unique in car-building design. ALI the
touches the Pullman people have
learned for comfort, safety, sanitation
and appearances sake are, given, and
some more. The dining cars are hospita-
bly, southern in cuisine and service. On
the first trip they were personally su-
pervised by Commissary Superintend-
ents Dwight Corson Of the Alton, and
Hazen J. Titus Of the Mobile & Ohio.
Those in the Party. ~
In the part are: George j. Charl-
ton, assistant general passenger agent;
Dudley Walker, division passenger
agent; William Owent, northern passen-
ger agent at Milwaukee; David Bowes,
assistant general passenger agent; D. B..
Hill, Alton official photographer; J. M.
Beall, st. Louis, general passenger
agent Mobile & Ohio; A. L. rutland,
New York, general passenger agent,
Munson Steamship line; Harry Powers,
Chicago, Powers theater; Will J. Davis,
Chicago, Illinois theater; Charles E. L.
M. Porter, ST.. Louis, attorney; L. G.
McMair, St. Louis, capitalist; P. G. Ba-
ker, Detroit News; Henry Schott, Kan.
sas City Star; w. Y. Bryan, Kansas
City World, George Killen, Chicago
Evening Post; Edwin L. Shuman, liter
airy editor, Chicago Record-Herald and
Mrs. Shuman; c. 8. Clark, Milwaukee
Evening Wisconsin; J. E. Smith, Mime
apolis journal; John D. Miller, CONNER
cial editor st. Paul Dispatch. Count O.
A. Wachtmeder, Swedish consul general
at Havana, is also aboard.
-. Az Mobile.
Long before the guests of the Alton
reached Mobile they marveled at the
dispatch with which g. they were ap'
preaching the old southern port. De-
livered at Havana by Monday morning,
eighty-four hours from Minneapolis
seems a wonderfully quick transition
In a short space Of three days and a
night the snow and frost Of the north
west is forgotten in the soft, warm Jan
uary weather Of Cuba, that resembles
September in Minnesota. .. g..
The trains were delivered at the Mo
bile pier, where lay the steamer Prince
| George, chartered by the Munsor
steamship line for the weekly trip te
and from Havana until next May. The
trip down the mouth of three combined
| rivers was thru tortuous course ne
wider than the Mississippi at Washing
| ton avenue. ..I-
If the outbound boats do not reacl
Fort Morgan, thirty-fve miles down the
bay, before dark, they have to lie up o.
suffer the chance Of grounding.
Once away from the sandbar light
the course Of the Prince George wa
straight away southeast for Havana
from Saturday night to Monday morn
| ing in time.
| A Long Sea Trip.
The ocean trip offered by the Munso1
line is nearly as long as the voyag
across the Atlantic-but broken in tw
by the stop at Havana-the break il
the trip being valuable circumstanc
to traveller subject to sea sickness.
! The George is large steamer, por
j Of London, built at Hull and ftte
excellently for the trade in which it
] now engaged. All the comforts Of tn
1 good ships of the transatlantic lin
are to be found While the steamer
800 feet long the Munson line will dor
BILE it's size in a steamer now buildin
J and to be run in connection with TIL
Havana Limited next season. Tt wi
be 800 feet long and will cost $S00,00l
The Atoms Broadness.
Altho the Alton company, George .
Charlton, acting as northwestern agen
i is offering this trip to the newspape