The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-25
MOST GORGEOUS OF
NEW HAVEN TRAINS
New Rolling Stock in Use This
Afternoon for First Time

Two steel VeSt1buled trains repre-
senting in grace of workmanship. ar
tistic finish and durability of design
the very perfection of the car build
Boston and New York next Tuesday.
They will form the Merchants Linn
ited'' of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad Company, the five
o'clock five hour train between The
These trains have just arrived from
the Pullman Campany's shops and are
now in the Boston and New York
yards awaiting their initial trips on
Tuesday The Merchants Limited"
Rrima T 9 taM of pro saS 5ra for
him all the car architects could fur
nish to contribute to his comfort and
ease that this new equipment was
ordered by President Charles s. Mel
len of the New Haven. In these
trains the ingenuity of the car build
ers have been taxed to provide as wen
for the passengers safety as for his
These new trains are practically in
| destructible- Made of steel they
could go through a stone wall without
meath with two immense steel gfrders
running the length Of the car and at
tached at the end to a solid cast steel
U frame forming the vestibule, one
might tilt them up on end a bit but
that would be all. So far as resisting
powers go they are built like battle
ships.
Each of the new trains will consist
of six cars exclusive of the diners.
There will be four parlor cars, a COM
bination parlor and baggage car and
an observation smoker. All Of them
have a steel exterior with a wood
interior to give them elegance. While
outside there is little to different1ate
them from other trains de luxe their
interior will present all that refined
taste and decorative simplicity could
desire. For rich, yet unobtrus1ve dec
fS~r- N TGH
turned out from the Pullman shops
The usual drawing room has been
eliminated in the parlor cars, giving
them thirty-six chairs instead of
twenty-eight. These chairs are models
of their kind, costing $40 g. piece They
are upholstered in tapestry instead of
plush, have patent self adjusting
backs, allowing one to assume any po-
sition with real comfort and are sure
to prove inviting to a man tired out
| by a days business. The interior
| trim of the parlor cars is the richest
of Mexican mahogany inlaid with the
finest example of marquetry work.
But 1t is in their unique lighting
system that these cars surpass any
thing yet conceived by the car con-
structors. They are the first to have
the new indirect system OF lighting, a
so beautifully chased bronze lacquer
| ed domes, each containing a 100 watt
lamp, light is thrown upward against
the white ceiling of the car. Thus
reflected and diffused the light has
the softnes of twilight for the tired
and yet for reading purposes you find
you can read the finest print without
| eyestrain. The effect of this system
| of illumination upon the rich interiors
| of these cars is particularly pleasing.
: Each car carries it's own lighting syS-
| tenn, generated by a dynamo run by a
belt from the car axle. The electric
| ity thus generated is stored in batter
| les that the supply may be sustained
when the car is not in motion. These
cars are the first to have two sets of
cells in multiple, capable of a ten
| hours supply. A car could make a
trip to Boston and back without re-
charging should it's dynamo get out OF
order. The old hot water system OF
heating has been discarded for direct
steam heating, thus insuring quick
ness in relocating. Drafts are elirni-
Etf1ation. Air is drawn from the front
of the car and passes out through
| ventila tors in the deck sash which
permit only an egress of air and thus
make it impossible for one to sit in a
draft. The A1avatories at each end OF
| the car, done in wood enamel, have
the new lock system, the latest SAM
tary devices. permitting of their use
at all times even when at tations.
| The interior finish of the observa-
tion-smoker differs from the others
in that it is of rich cocoa wood COM
Eporting more with the use for which
leather chairs. A buffet in which hot
Icoffee can be made quickly by cleo
tricity is attached to this car. The
carpets are of the plainest co1ors in
order to harmonic with the rest OF
the decoration. The tired business
man slipping into one of these cars
at the end of a busy day will find
himself in surroundings calculated te
make his journey between the two
cities one of positive pleasure.