. Electric railway journal . necessary. In general, theinterior partitions which originally divided the carsinto various compartments were not disturbed, but thekitchenette, stateroom and other similar arrange-ments with which the cars had been originally equippedwere rendered superfluous by the new service and wereremoved. The space which they occupied was then con-verted into seating compartments for wicker chairs were installed in the body of eachcar, and in the section reserved for smokers leatherupholstered armchairs were provided. The latter sec-tion, it may be said, is
. Electric railway journal . necessary. In general, theinterior partitions which originally divided the carsinto various compartments were not disturbed, but thekitchenette, stateroom and other similar arrange-ments with which the cars had been originally equippedwere rendered superfluous by the new service and wereremoved. The space which they occupied was then con-verted into seating compartments for wicker chairs were installed in the body of eachcar, and in the section reserved for smokers leatherupholstered armchairs were provided. The latter sec-tion, it may be said, is located at the front end of thecar in each case, the cars being operated in one direc-tion only, so that entrance to the main seating com-partments is effected directly as passengers board therear end of the car. No special facilities for entrance and exit were foundto be needed, owing to the relatively small number ofparlor car seats that are installed, the number in onecar being thirty-five and in the other car forty, and. EMPIRE UNITED RAILWAY PARLOR CARS PARLOR CAR SYRACUSE OPERATED AS A TRAILER February 26, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 393
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