The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1911-10-05

will be of latest design and will con-
| tain every comfort now in use on the
fastest and best equipped trains, and
many new conveniences in 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 schedule
may be maintained with comparative
ease. Each train will carry only a dy-
| namo and baggage car, diner, three
drawing room sars will be finished in
walton smoking car. The sleeping and
drawing room cas- will be finished in
mahogany and other beautiful hard
| woods and furnished in luxurious
fashion. The sleeping cars will each
contain ten sections, two compart-
ments and 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 barber, shower bath,
arrangements for pressing clothes and
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 transcontinen-
| tai travel will be eliminated as much
as possible by the installation of va
CUM 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 leaving the
cars.
Previous Records to be Broken.
Service on the Sunset Limited
will begin December from New Or
leans, and the following day from San
Francisco. The trains will leave New
Orleans at 1890 noon Mondays and
Thursdays of each week and arrive In
Los Angeles at 9:15 p. m. every
Wednesday and Saturday, and in San
Francisco at IL a. m. the following
days.
On the eastern trip trains will leave
San Francisco at $50 p. m. Tuesdays
and Saturdays, Los Angeles at $3.50
a. m. the following days, and arrive in
New Orleans at 1880 p m. every Fri.
day 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 Fran
cisco and New Orleans to seventy
hours and fifty minutes, or less than
/ three days for the trip that now takes
more than four.
The Injuries afforded the traveller
and the speed attained are such that
an excess fare of $40 will be charged
between the two terminals.
Connections With Steamships.
The time of the two trains has been
gagged so that direct and quick con-
nection will be made at both ends of
the route with ocean steamships. Trav-
elers from San Francisco bound for
the East and North may take this train
and be whirled to the Louisiana me-
tropolis and there transfer to fast
trains or steamships of the Southern
Pacific. On the western trip, the man
who 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 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.
, Its the biggest thing ever attempt
ed by any railroad" said Southern
Pacific official. "Of course, there are
extra fare trains, but none like these
and no railroad ever before made such
: cut in the running time as we will
4 make. And we will do it in a fashion
o that really will add to the safety O