LUXURIOUS TRAVELLING IN AMERICA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1211, 31 July 1884, Page 3

LUXURIOUS TRAVELLING IN AMERICA.

"The luxury of modem railroad travelllng in the United States," Frank Lestie's Newspaper observes, " astonishes foreign tourists. It would astonish many Americans could they have experience of it. Rich men, especially rich railroad men, take their elegant homes with them when they travel. Plate glass windows, velvet carpets, embossed furniture, mahogany finishing, inlaid panels of rare and costly woods, and wheels cast in Germany by Krupp, together with sleeping apartments, kitchen and servants' quarters, make the private car of to-day a veritable travelling palace. Seventy-five thousand dollars have been expended on one of these specimens of luxurious rolling stock. Patti and Gerster and Mrs Langtry have private cars more magnificent than Queen Victoria rides in. When Commodore Vanderbilt was alive, he owned a car that was thought royal in its splendour. To-day anybody who chooses to pay extra may ride in that car or one like it. There are parlor cars, buffet cars, drawingroom cars, sleeping cars, directors' cars, and hunting cars, all models of elegance and convenience, traversing the whole breadth of the continent, and at the service of whoever can afford to pay for them. There are in the countrv, exclusive of the Pullman. Compan y's" c r,;, inoro than 100 private cars, representing at a- moderate estimate 2,500,000 dols cash. Verily, riches have taken unto themselves wheels, instead of wings."