Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1912 — SPECIAL AGENT GIVES FIGURES ENGLISH CARS ARE MODELS [ARTICLE]

SPECIAL AGENT GIVES FIGURES

ENGLISH CARS ARE MODELS

Luxurious Sleeping Accommodations on Trains Running on Indian Railroad Lines. One of the new sleeping cars brought out from England in sections and put together at the Central Workshops has now been placed in service on the Singapore Mail from Kuala Lumpur, a The car contains eight separate sleeping rooms on either side of a central passage. The rooms are shut off from the passage by doors, thus insuring privacy, and are very comfortably fitted up. Each contains two berths, with spring mattresses, one above the other, a large half-length looking glass, a shut-up washstand which, by an ingenious contrivance, can be converted into a writing table; a folding stool and stepladder for the upper berth. The rooms are brilliantly lighted by three small electric lamps and one big one, and well ventilated by two windows with wire gauze screens and blinds, as well as by a ventilator over the large electric lamp In the roof. By each bed are switches for the lights and electric bell pashes which communicate with a number board in the corridor. The sides of the rooms and corridor are paneled with English oak, while the bed rails are polished brass. In addition to the bedrooms, each car contains lavatories and a bathroom, with shower bath and cupboard with waterproof curtate for bathers’ clothes.Consular Report.