"THE DAILY WHIZZER."

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1888, Page 7

"THE DAILY WHIZZER."

A Thousand Miles From the Sea to the Prairies in a Railway Train.

The folbwiog description of » rid© from New York to Chicago on " Pennsylvania Limited" is copied from the "Pall Mall Gazette": "The daily whizzer" loaves New York every morning Ab 9 o'clock and covers the thousand miles to Chicago in twenty-five houre. When the train was firefc put on the American public was incredulous of tiho advertised time to be oecnpied in the journey, Jinti the train ran with empty scats for several Weeks. With that alerfc sense of advertiSemenfc , which characterises tne American mind the Pennsylvania Railroad Company announced that they would refund five dollars to every passenger having a through ticket if tho train arrived at the depots in either city over fifteen minutes late. The offer was attractive to the American, who is essentially a grumbler, and likes the excitement of a race against time. When it wafe found that the railroad cotnpany kept to its engagements and handed five dollars to delated travelled the train rapidly filled, and from that moment it proved a success. For two yeafs the financial inducement was offered, and only when the train had become faftrcd fchtotierhoufc tho States for its regularity and lti*tfry was the advertisement withdrawn. There is a boudoir for the ladies, a nursery for the children, a bath rdohi for fchß cleanly arid a barber for the unshorn, "the dining-room is an appetMnff apartment, done in Myrtle-green-and French oak. The chief is worthyof Epicurus or the Elysee, and the dinner i 3 too cheap at ?L The Whitest of linen Covets tho daintiest of tables, which groan Bβ' neatti the weight of chirm and silver. When yOtt have breakfasted or lunched or dined, if you are a nian and a smoker, yon natufally adjourn to the sumptuous divan, which is Sacred to the vreed. If ymntfiSn to write, you find a rawiy for VBu with thfe niost handsome Equipment, dhd an bell will sumrtta the atte'nd&nt sprite If you wieh for cigars or cocktails. . ' ft The daily wlnzzer;" usually consists of five long cars and a composite baggage waEKon All-the windows are double, to tekclude drauglits, andlhe cars, almost Free from vibration, run oh.preseed-paper vWleela fencased in "steel runners. - The trayelTer at one end of the train can look along the bntlre length of cars wibnoub inteft-up.tion. The train runs distances from 100 to 150 miles withtfufc efcopping, and then only to cet a fresh tqcomotiVe. I assure you «fiat ttey ar© sorry when the journey leover.