Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — LUXURY ON THE RAIL. [ARTICLE]

LUXURY ON THE RAIL.

Tbe Difference, -«i—-■ ,i[ We have been frequently asked: “ What Is the difference between a railroad dining car and a Pullman Hotel car ?” That thefo is » vast difference is well known by those who have had occasion to use either; but the untraveled public are not fully advised as to the points of difference. The old-fashioned railroad eating-house is, alas! too well known: its peculiar, hastily-eaten meals have been partaken of by too inuny thousands to he forgotten. The dining car, then, is this well-known catlng-houße placed on wheels, attached to the train at the usual meal hours, and hauled along for thirty, forty or sixty miles, until the meal has been served, when 1c is set off on a side-track, ar.l i# by the next train hauled back to its starting point, and sb it runs a few miles for each meal. To get meals in this car the passenger has to work his way through the train t chile it is under full motion— pass from car to car, running the risks of falling between the platforms—and finally finding the car at the rear of the train. Then comes the meal, which must be hurried through with to give chance for other hungry passengers to take your place, and you must force yoar way back to your seat, and again run the risks of your platform passage while the train is at full speed. In 6uch cars you pay seventy-five cents for each meal, even if yon take or need only a cup of coffee and a cracker: Bear in mind, lu no case do these dining cars accompany the train from starting point to destination. They are always “ cut off ” and taken on as we have described. With the Pullman Hotel car the case is different in every respect. These cars are sixty to sixty-six feet long, have sixteen wheels under each, are built strong, so as to insure Bteady, quiet •running, without the usual unpleasant side motion. Each Hotel car contains, in the order named, the following compartments: let. A cosy, neat and clean little kitchen, fitted up with a range, an ice and meat box, rows of shelves covered with bright silver and brighter glassware, and all tbe appliances needed for preparing a sumptuous meal. fid. A . compact China and glass closet, in which is kept the table ware and table linen, cutlery, etc. 3d. A passage way, cutting off the kitchen and China closet from the of the car, ahd fonaingan air-cnnmber to prevent the smell of the cookifig victuals from reaching the saloon portion of the car. 4'h. The grand saloon. This Is fitted up with twelve, fourteen or sixteen tections, with space for fables between each, and in these the meals are Served. You, while on this car, own the space you occupy as much as you do your room at home, and no one can hurry ydu while at meals, nor are you forced to give it up to allow any other person to occupy it At night, as if by magic, this saloon is changed into a boudoir, and here your couch is prepared, and hero you rest yourself Isolated, and as separated from your fellow-travelers as you would hdin your own bed-chamber.

sth. An elegant drawing-room, with room for six or elg>.t persons. This is found alone in these magnMJquu cars in It you and your family or party (drfnends may be as secluded as you please, or you can slide open toe end and have toe company of those in the grand saloon. Uij • \ 6th. Charmingly-arranged lavatories are partitioned off, ana arranged in two distinct compartments for the separate use of ladies and gentlemen. These lavatories are supplied with pure water, clean towels, combs, brushes, and, in fact, everything the most dainty may desire for the pei feet performance of an elaborate toilet. 7th. Then to! ow conductors’ and porters* rooms, linen closets, etc., etc. It will thus be seen that this carts, as its name, implies, a perfect modern hotel, with all of its appliances and Cotnfort# complete. This ear ia taken on at the commencement ol the journey, and is part of the train to its destination. In it you get your sleeping compartments and your meal accommodations, While neither eacrotohbptfa the other. Envious dining-car employees, who are paid to decry this form of Hotel car,’ cannot, with anything like truth oa their side, give any valid or conclusive reason for preferring the dining to toe Hotel car, and they only chatter in l&vor of their dining car because they are paid 1 to do so. These hotel o«r« have run front Hew York to San Francisco and back with toe Emperor Dom Pedrt —With Jarrett A Palmer’s petty, that traveled at almost lightning speed—with many a party of California bauauaa kings; and «Q join in pledging their honor that the cars gre incomparaTwo lines of these celcbrated cars run between NeW York 5 and ChifcagU.ond one lino only between Qumh*. It may be needless to Kay that this last-named line runt over ton steel track of the Chicago <k Nobth-Westxbn Railwat. Tbst these cars are attracting a large share of the California £s* l&aff 28l*SM!-£S£t dense by too Chicago A haotW ffmam tn «*. ptek—»•, Trilxme, Ijowaht Kaunv.—Unlike remedies recommended tar this dis ass, Bavfoed’s Radical Curb vor Catahkh does not keep the sufferer long l* suspense as to Its comtive properties. Belief to InttsaUneous, and* cure rapid and permanent If F ‘ —Why la chloroform like Mendelssohn ? Because it is one of toe greet composers of modern times.