R.R. Car Improvements. - The R.W. & O. R.R. Co. appear to thoroughly appreciated the fact that, next uppermost to thoughts of personal safety, cone considerations of physical ease and comfort to the railway traveler, as, absent from home and its pleasures, he or she is necessarily limited to sweep of the eye and recumbancy of person for the principal range of enjoyment.
In carrying out this idea, they have been foremost in adopting improvements in respect to both the security and pleasure of railway travel. The "Palace Car" was a new and very acceptable feature introduced about a year since, but with all its elegant aspect, it is eclipsed by the "Ladies Car" recently produced at the Company's Car Shop at Rome, and whose advent on the road was simultaneously announced in our columns.
The latter is sufficiently imposing to outside observation, being comparatively large, and well elevated from the track, on six-wheel trucks. Within, the appearance is very attractive, with its thirty capacious double seats, in lively crimson dress, gaily contrasting with the elaborate finish of black-walnut on the sides and window sash and blinds, the paneling surmounted with rare and beautiful trimmings, of knurled black ash and with its arched roof, raised in recess at the center, to increase and improve the means of light and ventilation. The ceiling and the projecting cupola are fancifully ornamented with pretty trimmings and gilt mouldings. The whole scene is a beautiful one. In short, the surroundings, with other conveniences amply cared for, are all eminently calculated to please either the rude or cultivated taste.
[Note: The "R.W. & O." mentioned in the article is the
Rome, Watertown and
Ogdensburg Railroad, later part of the
New York Central Railroad]