The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-22
DRINK
THE FINEST TRAIN IS
 AN ENGLISH TRAIN
Yet the Pullman Car Compmny Built at for the English Road.


 London. Nov 21.--The handaonsest train In the world the London. Brig ton and South Coast Company's new Pullman express, has made its first run to and from Brighton, performing the hfty-mIle Journey each way in fifty seven minutes from start Go stop.
 The Pullman Company. who built thts wonderful train, have excelled in providing for luxurious railway travel. Without making unnecessary compar- isons with royal trains. it is true to say that the new Brighton express is ens most beautiful public vehicle that has ever run on any railway in any part of the world. The finest railway cars are the Pulimans. and MT. Davidson Dalziai, the chairman of the Pullman Company, told a representative of the press that the new train Is the finest Of all the Pullmans.
 It is so exquisite and so essentially a thing with an identity that 1t clearly called for a name. like Q ship or an airship, and an idea of its soft and inviting charm is conveyed by the name it has -received---the Southern Belle. It is almost an error ina colir~ tesy to call the Southern Belle q train at all. for it Is really composed of . series of ,boudoirs and drawing rooms opening into each other, or connected with elegant Hobbies ,pannelled In ma hogany. The train Is as long as an ocean liner, and as comfortable as the snuggest boudoir in Mayfair. From end to end there Is the most elegant decorative work in wood panelling, up- hoistery. and nttin@. the whole being so artistically arranged as to banieh every thought of . railway train.
 The door handles, table lamps, racks and other metal fittings are finely chased ormolu. At for the apaftnsnts A 14a alam4wfO IfWhH@ aVa ceilings are sunk ip "dishes." and the little globes of moulded crystal peep out like flowers. The ceilings are white, with a little choice decoration in bas-reilef. The table tops gre of curl veneer. Pretty mirrors are inlet in the paneJled walls. The floors of the apartments are all hidden with thlck carpets. The Hobbies are laid with inlaid rubber. The toilet rooms have washstands with onyx marble tops and woodwork of fine stripe ma. hogany. Throughout the whole series of apartments the effect Is one of sim plicity richness, rennemeut and'qufet, l(buffet earl, Cleopatra, Peterborough Princess Helen, Belgravia. Alberta. Verona.
 The Grosvenor seats twenty-five per- sons the other cars thirtY-three each. except the two latter, which each seat thirty lone. In the Grosvenor. the style is that of the Adams. the old English masters of interiors. The woodwork is of Spanish mahogany, richly inlald with satinwood. The dusrtered pam els are iniaid with rare old curl ve- neers, such as curio hunters desire. The blinds are Of damask silk. Tn this car there is buffet. with large pantry behind.
 In the other cars the woods vary. There are East India 'satinwoods. ma hoganteg, kingwood, sycamore, box wood, greenwood. tulipwood. pear, holly and oak. all used in the most el- egant style known to the modern dec- orative artist. Tn the Belgravia the style is PerEoles, in the Alberta and Verona 1t is French renaissance. Tn others it ls Adam. Tn all 1t Is faith fully carried out. and the result Is in each case harmonious and luxurious. Lord BessborouEh expressed the belief that the Southern Belle would bring the best quality of visitors to BriEh- ton.