Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1880 — NEW RAILWAY COACHES. [ARTICLE]

NEW RAILWAY COACHES.

Beautiful Designs and Tasteful Decorations, Combined with Perfect Ventilation and Luxurious Upholstering. Having secured appliances of approved merit, designed to insure the greatest possible protection against accidents of every character, the managers of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company, whose lines are more widely and fa vorably known under the title of the Pun Handle Route, turned their attention to further details by providing for the comfort of pations and catering to the growing tas’e for d- ■ corations in accordance with art principles. Twenty new coaches have been recently added to the equipment for the Pan-Handle Route, and eleven more are being constructed. These cars are finished in whifA walnut and bass-wood. The designs are entirely new, the interior being finished somewhat after the Eastlake style. Straight lines | redominate throughout with effective carvings in place of veneering. The effect is much more pleasing than toe old de signs, giving the interior the appear mice of greater solidity and strength. Large plate glass windows give passengers an uninterrupted view of the beautiful scenery for which the PanHandle and the, Pennsylvania Line is noted. Seats are supplied with easy springs and luxuriously upholstered frames. A feature of the new ears, which will commend them to the traveling public,is anew arrangement for heating and ventilating. Cold fresh ahis collected and forced, by the mo mentum of the ear. around the pipe and stove,and distributed from thence through the car by a flue. This pl n has proved very successful, since the adoption of an improved patent air receiver. The new eats are well lighted with sperm oil lamps, yielding a soft, eleir light, which is reflected by the delicately-tinted head linings so perfectly that a newspaper can be ■■end without straining the eyes.— When in motion, the comfort of passengers. particularly while reading, is promoted by the easy,soft movement of the trucks, each spring of which is made to conform to specifications carefully calculated according to the weight it has to carry. This attention details enables the Pau-Han die Company to invite its patrons to seats in more perfectly constructed coaches than have been run hereto ' fore.