A NOVEL CONVEYANCE.

Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 647, 9 July 1892, Page 2

A NOVEL CONVEYANCE.

The people of Tulnaro Count/, California, are going to the "World's Fair, to be opened noxfc year in Chicago, in railway ooaohes of novel construction. In a gorge 60 miles from Visalia grows a redwood tree, throe hundred and ninety feet high, niaety-six fesfc from the butt to the first branch, and twenty-six feet through, at the base. This monarch of the forest is there felied, cut in pieces, lengthwise, and hauled to the Yisilia railway station. There the log will be made whole by the reuniting of the sections. Then experts will divide a portion of it into lengths of forty-fiv» feet each, which will afterwards bo hewn into the shape of passenger coaches. The bark will be used for roofs, and on the sides and ends the natural wood will be left unpolished. The inside will toe hollo wod out, windows and doors put in, • and the interior finished after the fashion of the Pullman cars. One will be a buffet and a dining carriage, with apartments for bath, barber's shop and kitchen. The other will be a sleepapartment. Platforms -will he put at the ends, and ordinary trucks underneath; and to prevent the transformed tree from falling to pieces, heavy bands of iron will be put around the bodies of the cars. The tree -would he left with the bark on, but for the fact that the carriage could not be morn than the regulation size and get ovar bridges and under tunnels safely. They will be about eleven feet wide and ten feet high. It is intended that the men of Tulnare shall take their wives and children and go to the Exhibition in the tree. The carriages will be kept on the Fair grounds, and the delegation will make them their homes.