Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-11-17
HALF A MILLION IN NEW CARS
New 500 Line Trains are Beauties.
New Ideas in Comfort.

The 500 road is trying hard not
to look superior and proud and com
pl2cent. To date it has found that
o considerable of job however.
The Mogul engines out along the line
snort just a little more contempt
uosly than before and the fussy little
iow-broWed switch engines that so
hustling about the yards are strain
ing their boiler plates to keep from
Yelling aloud with triumph. The
Youngest office boy is becoming q
braggart and boaster, and the high
officials who have their being i'll
mysterious inner offices are holding
their cigars at just trifle higher
angle than before.
Now. the reason for all this pomp
and circumstance is a story worth
the telling,
The 500 has new train. A lot
of him. Thirty-five cars Of him,
and just to prove that the 500 knew
it's business in getting its crack, sde
luxe, splendiferous cars from one
Barney & Smith, Of Dayton, O., listen
to the telling of the joys Of these
ears. For behold they are cars as
is cars, and their like runneth not
in the land nor in the cities of the
land
In the first place they are steel.
And that is STEEL. You could not
dent one with trip-hammer. Tn
derneath are two long steel bridge
girdcrs that run from end to end
and are welded. And you could bun ]
chose Orders into fiatcar loaded
with scrap iron and the flat car
would be carried away in the jaws
Vi Wrecker, but these cars would
20 serenely on unframed. You see
tie vestibules are also of steel. And
he sides are Of steel, and SO are
Ic roots and the floors, and the
sidr& are bolted with large aggressive
they are going forth to battle and
argue with machine guns. For the
timid traveller the appearance OF
these cars is joy and consola-
ton and fear is not.
Nut listen, This is the exterior
chat is massive and beautiful, but
JWing to rain, weather and small
hoys that like to scratch things with
1ails, the outsides are not like unto
| the :nsides
When one goes into the average
sleeper, parlor car, diner or observa-
| sion car he grOpes his way down a
tortuous aisle that is filled with the
! spirit of darkness, and when he
finally stumbles into the car proper
he feels like a prisoner. The roof
! comes low and the aisle is narrow
ana the decorations are oppressive.
It is the air of a million dollar hotel
as they were built in the days of the
! Palmer house Now here is the way
| Of the SoO's new cars. The sleepers
are equipped with prism glass in
the passage way. That means that
your way will be lighted and you
| know just where your feet are going
| col Of 10 -,
dark wood without beads or carved
| flowers to scratch your hands On,
You commence to feel affluent and
restful at once. You peep into the
smoking room and your heart is glad
dened again with the peace and the
rest that lies awaiting you. The
seats look soft and inviting. The
leather is dark, and there is no dust.
The Peruvian mahogany is just the
right shade to blend with the curl
ing smoke and to form a soft back
ground for smoke dreams The beau
ty is there, and the costliness is there
but it is the sort that comforts and
cheers, and does not obtrude its worth
in a shrek Of dollars and cents. And
they can take the upholstery parts
out and stick the nose of a snort
ing, gasping air pump into the inter
ior of the seats and gather up germs
and dirt with speed and dispatch.
And then you go into the car proper.
Here you find Cuban Mahogany,
and those that deal in precious woods
know that here is real art The berths
fit tight against the walls and do not
curve. The roof is square decked.
| Now that means the car appears to
be twice as large as it really is. and
the stuffiness of narrow isles and low
hung roofs are done away with. And,
LISTEN the berths are wider and long
er. And because the roof is as it is,
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