Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1889 — Pullman’s Latest Triumph. [ARTICLE]

Pullman’s Latest Triumph.

The Monon Route has now placed in service on its Cincinnati line the most elegant and luxurious sleeping palaces running out o£ Chicago. They were expressly built for the Monon Route by the Pullman Company, and are equipped with the perfected safetv vestibule, magnificently upholstered and lighted with electricity. They are mod sis of elegance, convenience and comfort, and their use by the Monon Route attests to the degree of popular favor in which that line is neld by the traveling public in recent years. The greatest depth which has been ascertained by sounding is five miles and a quarter (25,720 feet, or 4,620 fathoms), not quite equal to the height of the highest known mountain, Mount Everest, which measures 29,002 feet, Or miles high. The average depth between 60 degrees north and 60 degrees south is nearly three miles.