RAILWAY CARRIAGES IN AMERICA.

West Coast Times, Issue 622, 21 September 1867, Page 4

RAILWAY CARRIAGES IN AMERICA.

(FROM THE NEW XOHK TIME 3.) Yesterday afternoon a number of promident citizens, immediately interested in railway matters, and the representatives of the city press, made a short trip on the New Jersey Central Railroad in three splendid new ears, owned by the Central Transportation Company. These cars are known as the " Silver Palace Altoona" " Silver Palace, Alleghany," and "Silver Palace, Pittsburgh." The party were received by Jonah Woodruff, Esq., the Superintendent of the Central Transportatidn Company, Mr D. E. Holmes, the Superintendent in Cincinatti,Mr T. H. Poole, Chicago Superintendent, and Frederick Knowland, Esq., General Passenger Ageat for this city. Two of these cars, the last named,have just been completed and have been brought to this city that their use might be tendered to the party of capitalists which started last evening for Omaha, where they are to celebrate the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad to the 100 th degree west longitude. An inspection of these cars readily suggests the reflection that about as much has been done as can be demanded by passengers, however fastidious they may be in their surroundings day or night. They are truly magnificent affairs, and it is no exaggerated naming to call them " silver palaces." The wood throughout is polished black walnut, with w vats silver mountings, each section

being divided from its neighbor by a splendid pillar of solid German silver. The panels are studded with silver medallions, and the arms of the seats and frames of the mirrors ornamented with the same material. Mirrors are placed within each section. The interior is lighted, not only in the usual manner, but through groundglass^panels of delicate design, which form* the sides of the elevated ceiling. Thus lighted, and the light reflected by the mirrors and the polished silver fittings, the effect is fine The carpeting and cushioning are, of course, in keeping with the luxury around them. In each car is a separate stateroom for the accommodation of a party .under special circumstances. This is also handsomely fitted, and offers the comfort of privacy if desirable, or can be thrown open when its inmates prefer being social. The marked improvement in the cars is, that when adjusted after night travel they lose all appearance of sleeping care, and offer more comforts- than are to be found in any day cars hitherto known to the travelling public. They have the novel comfort of a table rapidly adjustable, which, placed in the centre of a section, is suggestive of a pleasant 101 l over a book, or the contents of a lunch basket, with a friend beside one and two others vis-a-vis. ' Three companion carriages to those exhibited yesterday are in process of construction, to be named " Silver Palace, New York," " Silver Palace. Chicago," and " Silver Palace, Pittsburgh." These are to be completed in the spring of next year, and with those above-named to be brought to New York to be duly inaugurated ; that one especially which takes New York as its matron saint, with the name it is to bear. — " The Silver Palace, New York."