LR PULLMAN VESTIBULED TRAIN ——————— INAUGURATION OF A NEW FRA IN TRAIN | CONSTUGTION BY THE Puli. MAN COMPANY, i Sixty years ago George Stephenson | was making experiments which lead up to the Rocker; a locomotive des” tined to pave the way for rapid rail way travel, Thirty years ago rudesleeping cars were in use, aud the first palace s'eep- : the i er was constructed six years later pioneer ino name and io fact of the 1,300 cars now owped and operated by the Pulman Palace Uar Company. | ineers of the that The most eminent eu, time persisted declaring no : al such machine as the Rocket could he | made, until Stephenson, with his hand the throttle, away from them at twelve miles The inv of a seer, d on Rocket's steamed hour, enter, with the vision 8 ry } . discerns things that are den from the FAZo gaze, common seven-league boots genius marches far | in advance of the masses of men, plaut. ing on the heights the flag of a higher civilizatic In the of the Mi. infancy race the orator and the artist, and the | sculptor were held in reverence as man's greatest bevefactors. wiser appreciation now places the im- mortal wreath on the brow of the ar-| i relieves the tisan ; for we are beginning to realize that progress depends not so much up. on the so-called fine arts as upon the | useful arts. The invention of printing nd the creation of the railway are the TWO LEADING in the history of way is EVENTS rail it rior to the art of printing. The work oi G the most ptes exis'ecce on earth. s makes neil man ; and the an agent of civilization, it is oF 3 pot int Hae Siephenson : : is to-day | t inflaer or good 21] gh bors of nts contine the y Unie separa and, in bringing fae : climes, by to face peo- H p eof remaots ends one human in brotherhood all races of the world. Butio ruilwar travel, not the Si le I's quisite : ty are equally tial More ¢ life attend ever ©8401 miort and greater security to here, step by step And 8s and d of its the progress of civilization. be with the railway : g per it must 8a it will be in any devel. t. But i Stephenson's Opinen world, the tion roams throagh M 1s o : 11 Me gw in applic utilized, crease tl way travel, and it is this junctur rhen to 12 Com 18 $314 ordinary apprehension tl more steps to be taken, that a ere are no departure in sleeping car construction is announced ; unique. THE PULLMAN PALACE CAR COMPANY a departure altogether presents to the public an improvement jb its sleeping car trains not less use- gul than novel, an improvement as lux. uious up it is besatifal ; and, to crown all, an improvement that adds im- mensly to the security of travelers, The term “car construction,” so far as it applies to railway “sleepers” in from to-day, obsolete. The new an hid= | With | But a | | the sm conditions | new | | partare involves the coining of a new 1 his | phrase 1s "train construction,” Leontaing a hiot of the nature of the naw departure, which is the connecs | tion of two or more sleeping cars by means of vestibules, so that a train of sleepers, whether consisting of two or continuous new and it tpl hirage in mechanics, : i I i a dozen, constitutes one lear rendered fl. x connection by means of folded rubber Through this ingenious made that traveler may pass from one end « diaphragms, to Jue it passes | device, the entire train is : : ; | A series of wpartments, so to the other, precisely as he from one room to another in his own ible at the points of | i house, THE VESI'BULES ars formed by inclosing the platforms | | They are as elegantly finished as any | part of the car, earpeted so as entirely | to conceal the points of connection be- tween the joined cars, and illuminat- {ed by means of lights depevding from fall | cut-glass paneled doors full upon the {the ceiling, whose rays A nignt view of the train at a | station presents the appearance of a with | Steps, { series of connected residencces, brilliantly illuminated entrances. Many the vestibuled train are obvious, from one part of the train 10 another from traveler in passing the annoyance of the whirlwind of the train, as also from f the motion of the open air in winter ud forms intense cold | from the dust in summer, from {storms of all seasons. It an | easy connection with the dining-room, kis the library, the { the bar ¢ room, bath room, an ber's There h vaniag suop. are however, many other ad menps » that this ues vice will greatly di minish the oscillation of cars, invari ably attendant upon the high speed roads with curves or un When Oi train over even tracks LAry considerable radius, the CAHSEE AD oscillation For LE RN 5 aving Ves not « greeable to passengers, but CNR. ye to per the the co NPADY | ib Increases 0 its moLive are pro git springy being reby compressed: IVT RETR EE [Olle Caen frames pres other close conta ul wow ble force. This very | Chai 1 Tike. : prin k the t heeking | rd, Serves £3 1 ation, and the ani) he increased to any desired reasing ine pressure : enlarg In thi laces Lhrougi RR) "He “ i k 8 may be Hap Arica Lo lhe enlire rain, vhiereas at present the swaving i by oscillation of oars Viren, It Passe being greater in some than others ut tl 1 ie comfort of will be increased lo the ratio oi » reduction of the swaying tendency of cars in rapid motion; and especial with passen- | gers oc capying upper berths, It fol | lows that, the swaying motion of the | cars being reduced to the minimum, a | train of given weight will make high- er rate of speed with the same motive power, upon the same road-bed, and with the same degree of comfort to passengers. But after all, the safety of the pas. scoger Is the prime consideration in every step of railway construction. from the rond-bed to the last detail {ly will this be the case of rolling stock, Speed is important comfort is desirable, luxuries of the table, the couch, and the toilet are in. ace car construction ix the story of in. But as all theses would b: freely sacrificed to save a single | Life, it follows that sny feature of car | dispensable, construction that diminishes, or tends | dey grea the to diminish, even in a small the chances of takes first rank. A usual result of collisions on rail- accident, the With the present method of construc. tion, ways is the telescoping of curs WHEN A TRAINIS SUDDENLY CHECKED, the tendency of the superstructure of | «| maxes; and, as it glides graceinlly the car is to fold down with its roof isting buffer being designed to act in | | a horrizontal plane, coinciding with | that of | lence, the plane of the platform, in the event { of a slight elevation of one car above | another through accident, the platform { of the elevated car alniost through | work crashes through the frame | the adjoining car, with disastrous ef- | fect. | which form the foundation of the ves- | tibule in these cars are in fuct spring | buffers arranged io a vertical | New York, running them as “ sf the wsthetic advantages of | v ab | { only to re-enforce the braces, { open platform, caused by the rapid | the | + | erful barrier, if | base to apex of the ly make | buller is at the i the meaps | TELES( a train runs at a | CAD | wrecked train, for {isthe almost invariable result of the Van Ruren street 1 C asirac ted by tl HE Pu | in " : HAV But the heavy steel plane, and, extending as they do from | syuonym of | gress only in car construction, but of progress in city building ; ep | i i, lof Pullman already erjovs uo fame a | : - in table as that to whi dh dr { destined, | {is the abode of upon the fl or; but by the method of | 8WaY from | construction herein described, the ex- | THE HISTORY of Mr, defutigable straggles crowed with a series of unexampled successes, Oh ler ¢ inpanies have imitated but never The the rivaled, ] Pp the Pallmun Company, name allman” thus becomes prograss, ani got o f pro fur the eity { for her what do i. aig uyk oy done, fo 1859-1887. Pullman's achievemeniain pal- tH er's latest triumph in train building is | 1 he 8 found vestibuled train a grand climacteric to a series of cli. | 1y lal oft hi : the model city, a thing of of luxury, will herald to the beauty, and of safety, it world a triple fame its own incomparable excel that of the beautiful city which the arts of peace, and { that of the progressive and indomita inevitably of | frames | | place the | 1 solid timbers of the platforms to | sustain tend those of the roof, they whole superstructure and inserted to strengthen the car and so prevent | it from rocking, but constitute a pow- not absolute protec. | tion agaist telescoping. The idea of spring buffers arranged |in a vertical plane estending from car body, is entire. new ; and that it is practiesble to these butlers as effective throughout as the existing boriz with this point of contact platform is qrehy that, through Mr, latest device, OFING CAN ABSOLUTELY BE PREVENTED, of the latter also the horrors fire ina disaster former. The { that was train of five cars under one roo on exhibition at the station Lo Hman C div pois Central Railway, this city, upany accordance with the ices we noes i railway train motion | It con buffet, nisl DE l OAK. pes & drawing-room, bath, ne desks. library. and cabin s also wipplied with elegant 5 ' 13 3] : da fy MAN LIMITED, “rULl service of travelers # At Lhe he Carpe ta throughout the train are the richest Wilton make, wrought i in attractive designs, and the general i effect of the decorations and farniture {is mot only highly luxurious, but pleasing to tie most refined and Tas tidious taste. The cars are heated by the celebrated Baker appliance; and it is worthy of remark that this heat. er has never yet on oceasionlof derail’ ment or wrecking of al train, caused its destruction by fire. The recepta. cles for the heaters throughout the vestibuled train (are absolutely fle proof. Other new features of the train are superior facilities for which are ingenious, convenient, and incon. spicuous, the | not | ble spirit of its inventor sod builder The accu stomed Penosylvania Road, with its progressiveness, has ar- ranged with the Pullman C ny to its line between Chicago, Cincinnati and ompn these vestibuled trains on limited,” a HOUSEHOLD ALMOND BSavarin.—Take pound of fice sifted flour, one four ounces { of pounded loaf sugar, one-half pound of fresh butter, eight rira egg and one Dissolve the yeast in rather less than half ounce of German yeast, a pint | of tapid milk, strain it and work into mia | , | sugar, Poallman's ! of the 11li- } | for about an hour and a half it 80 much of the flour as duce Roti ball, remainder of the floar int 1 pro soft dough, this ino a place the a deep basin; lay the ball of doug! it, cover up the basin and leave i a warm place until the ball of d Now a | | just liquefied the sponge) bas risen, the butter and work the egg and a pinch of salt, mixture lightly with the fingers uot Butter maid it becomes a smooth paste, pleotifully a large plain border (Savarin mld), mince some bleached almonds, not to fine, sod strew the mold with as many of thew as will stick to the butter; then cake the mold more pour in the mixtare, which should not than three parts fu Place 1. i i, covered up, warm place, and when the cake well risen, bake it in &« moderats Yefore | o” the m How, SEIVE the chicken on a8 warm dish, plac ing the : i they are higher toward the fried ; i L around i! : (OR 80 LUSK . entre; sprinkis araley a Hi entre ol iH A) EHAL : 121 sighted it being known to their elders. ¢ case that childrens’ eyes are near or dissimilar in focus al physical disturbance which no ordinary dootoring seews to reach. In one case a young girl was (rested during three or four years for violent spells of headache. Bbe took pounds of pills, pints of medicine, for her head, for her stomach, for her spine, for malarial disorders, for neuralgia, for bile. Her hair grew gray and she bade fair to sink foto chrouic invalid, ism, A brillisot idea struck ber, and in three months spectacles had done in| the | a done a constant siran of th ‘vx OI the girl eve and brain, + hile the poor tad been fit eyes of entirely dissimilar focus, Irying to fog The nerves are all in sy mat iy, and what rain and Custrarp Eas, sis in a saucepan of ¢ water. ust come Oy cover them with boiling pat the top on the pail and leave th. el them j lo a bor): then lage | the m up. any them in wu hot | pail, war, ou the kitchen table for Drain { fl the WW i fi ve nler, pour on more Ig water at vol abe OWE BOD it four minuts before They will be like : t irougzhout, and if eonke GRAHAM 110 any other wavy, AND OC of am flour ORS MUFFVINS Two full cups eorn meal, owe cap of grah cup Weel milk, two cups of boiling Pou ui rthe OH waler wialer In L luke-warm, the meal aud stir well, mixiure stand ull of n [ie wild cup milk Or enough to form a batter about as stiff’ us wil drop from 8 Spoon and beat well, Set Lhis 1a a then D , and bake twenty warm place two hours, tv hot p nto hot the veg and bent | Rem pans, well minu‘es in & brisk oven Wie drain . Fruis Cake Year — Wash pound of currents, chop coarsely’ one Last a THAD nud weil one pound of rasine, chop or slice one half pound of citron, beat five eggs and LWaG cu then | , reservi € Tasing t their settling prevent $ to the hottom Add froit Jast WOMEN Ne ding revewed strength, or whe seer from tafrmithon peenliar to thelr ses, should ry BROWNS without | This | is usually the occasion of much gener. | BEST TONIC. howe be hes ie I hr Wong hn ie | Iwo | washed | and | in i “i | Minties, baile | PRICES bresk in’ EEERRIEAERSA MARRS Great Reduction I am now Prepared to Give BIG BARGAINS. DRY GOODS. Dh ERR v ; ‘ (foods from per d. ya 7 NC7JONS, Lower Tan the Low, est. Countrv Prodvee On hand, and Wanted at all times. C. U. HOFFER Allegheny sv, Belleronte, Pa
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