The Holbrook news., 1911-10-13
s SOUTH ERIN PACIFIC SUNSET ROUTE WILL CUT TIME BE- TWEEN NEW ORLEANS AND SAN FRANCISCO THIRTY HOURS AND CONNECT WITH STEAM SHIPS.
CARS BEING BUILT OF STEEL
 AND OF THE LATEST DESIGN
EXCESS FARE OF S1o WILL BE CHARGED FOR EXTRA CON-
 FORTS AND SPEED

too be made even more so by tn
 Southern Pacific, Sunset Route. Plan ! for a new train to run twice weekll
 between New Orleans and Los An
 geles and San Francisco, call for
 cut of thirty hours in the running tim, | between the two points. The nev
 schedule, with it's attendant comforts has been brought about by the heav!
 winter travel between the two pointI
 on the Sunset Route, and to care fo
 this new equipment is now being bull
 in the Pullman shops at. Chicago.
 The trains will be all steel. Tn, cars will be of latest design and vii
 contain every comfort now in use on the fastest and best equipped trains, and many new conveniences il addition.
 Built for High Speed
 The trains will consist of only six cars, and thus the high speed that will be demanded to make the sched ule may be maintained with compar ative ease. Each train will carry only a dynamo and baggage car, a diner, three drawing-room sleepers and an observation smoking car. The sleeping and drawing-room cars will be finished in mahogany and other beautiful hardwoods and furnished in luxurious fashion. The sleeping cars will each contain ten sections, two compartments and a drawing-room. They are being built with an especial regard to the comfort of women, in that the accommodations for them will be most commodious. A ladies' maid, manicure and hairdresser will aid in caring for the needs of the women.
 The men also will be well taken care of, there being a barber, shower bath, arrangements for pressing clothing and a stenographer aboard.
 The berths are to be electric lighted both upper and lower, and electric fans will cool the air of the car.
 The dust and dirt of transconti- mental travel will be eliminated as much as possible by the installation of vacuum cleaners that will do away with the offensive brushing up of dirt in the cars. At all terminals the trains will be given telephone connections, and travellers will be enabled to talk with friends in the city without leaF- ing the cars.
 Previous Records to Be Broken
 Service on the Sunset Limited" will begin December 4th from New Orleans and the following day from San Francisco. The trains will leave New Orleans at 12:30 noon Mondays and Thursdays of each week and ar rive in Los Angeles at 9:15 pm. every Wednesday and Saturday, and in San Francisco at Il am. the following days.
 On the eastern trip trains will leave San Francisco at 6:30 pm. Tuesdays and Saturdays, Los Angeles at S:SO a. m. the following days and arrive in New Orleans at 7:20 pm. every Friday and Tuesday. The running time between Los Angeles and New Orleans will thus be cut to fifty-six hours and fifty minutes and between San Francisco and New Orleans to seventy hours and fifty minutes, or less than three days for the trip that now takes more than four.
 The luxuries afforded the traveller and the speed attained are such that an excess fare of $10 will be charged between the two terminals.
 The time of the two trains has been gauged so that direct and quick will be made at both ends of the route with ocean steamships. Travellers from San Francisco bound for the East and North may take this train and be whirled to the Louisiana metropolis and there transfer to fast trains or steamships of the Southern Pacific. On the western trip the man who-i is hurrying to catch one of the vessels of the Pacific Mail will have an additional day for business and still make his boat.
 The service when inaugurated will be a unique departure in railroad his tory. The trains will be different from any other in the United States the equipment of the latest and best and every care will be taken for the safety of passengers.
 "It's the biggest thing ever at tempted by any railroad said Southern Pacific official. "Of course there are extra fare trains, but none ike these, and no railroad ever be- fore made such a cut in the running time as we will make. And we will lo it in a fashion that really will add to the safety of travel, as our trains will be especially safegdarded and watched from one end of the line to he other"