Year: 1877

For some time we have heard hints of
line of hotel cars for the Omaha and
California line of the Chicago & North
Western Railway. When asked about
their cars, the officers have uniformly
evaded direct reply. Our "reportial
Instincts taught us to investigate for
ourselves. We have done so, and are
now enabled to state positively that such
line will be started in the early spring,
and that the cars are now being built
The fact will no longer be secret after
this days paper gets before the public.


-Four of the most magnificent hotel
cars that have been built anywhere are
now being constructed by the Pullman
Palace Car Company expressly for this
line. These cars will be sixty feet long,
ten feet wide, and ten feet high, with
twelve sections, one drawing room with
table room for six persons), and one state
room, besides the kitchen, china closet,
dressing room, etc. The interior will be
finished with black and white walnut,
mahogany French ash and curled maple,
the place of the usual head lining be-
ing filled in with foreign polished woods
the panels between the windows will be
of California laurel and other California
woods the lamp fixtures window fasten-
ings, door hardware, etc., will be of
triple plated silver. The upholstery of
the seats is to be of rich but plain reps,
corresponding but harmonizing with
the wood finish of the sides and roof of
the cars. Between each set of seats is
space for a table that will accommodate
four persons comfortably, but as a rule
are not expected to seat more than two
persons. The glass and chinaware for
the tables are now being made at Dres-
den, Germany, from patterns selected
from the Royal Dresden exhibit that
was at the Centennial Exposition and
so greatly admired. Each piece of sill
ver-ware, glassware and china-ware will
have the monogram of the Chicago g.
Northwestern road marked thereon
The kitchen of the cars will be so ar
ranged that no fumes from the cooking
viands can reach the occupants of the
berths. On each car>will be steward,
two cooks, three walters, anda chamber
maid to wait upon lady patrons. 1t is
the intention of the company to furnish
the best meals that money can buy, and
choice wines and cigars will be attaina-
BILE by those desiring those luxuries.


These hotel cars will leave CHICAGO on
the California Express" and run
through to the Missouri river On the
west-bound train, dinner, supper and
breakfast will be served. The east-bound
hotel cars will leave Omaha on the " At
lantic Express" each day, in the after
noon. On this train supper, breakfast
and dinner will be served. Thus passen-
gers bound in either direction will be
enabled to have all their meals en- route
and yet not leave their palatial travelling
parlor.


The only objection that has ever been
raised against the use of hotel cars has
been connected with the odors of the
kitchen. AS we said before, this, in
| JncSC SdiS, VIII NC CnliiclJ ODfldbcu, no
person, no matter how particular he OF
she may be, will have cause to make any
objections on this score. In the dining
car you merely get your meals, and as
soon as you are through eating you are
showed out and started for the coach OF
sleeper, so as to make room for some
other traveller who desires your place
While in these hotel cars your berth
will be secured through, you will own II
absolutely for the length of your trip,
and it will be your own for lounging,
sitting, sleeping, and eating purposes, as
much as your own seat in your own
house. AS 1t is not generally known,
dining cars are never run over the en-
tire length of any route they are taken
on and set off of the train at stated
meal times, while these hotel cars will
be made a part of the train and run
throughin the same way as the regular
sleeping car.


On the admirable steel rail that Is now
laid on the Chicago 4 North Western