. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . , oak, rosewood,black-walnut, maple, ash. Ilie upholstering and fresco work matched toperfection in every instance. While thus studying so earnestly to pleasethe eye, it was none the less so to insure that comfort to the body with-out which all else would be hut loves labor lost. There were manyopportunities for improvement in practical appliances. In the old makeof cars the seats were at once too narrow and too high, and the spacebetween the lower and the u])per berths when the latter were let down wassuch that the occupant of the former ha
. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . , oak, rosewood,black-walnut, maple, ash. Ilie upholstering and fresco work matched toperfection in every instance. While thus studying so earnestly to pleasethe eye, it was none the less so to insure that comfort to the body with-out which all else would be hut loves labor lost. There were manyopportunities for improvement in practical appliances. In the old makeof cars the seats were at once too narrow and too high, and the spacebetween the lower and the u])per berths when the latter were let down wassuch that the occupant of the former had to make a corkscrew of himself. 16 Of a Mf//>t. in order to move about without peril to head or limb. These very unde-sirable features were abolished by the lowering and widening of the seatsand the addition of considerable space between berths. Another innova-tion was an increase in the width of the berths, the B. and O. .sleepersbeing not only higher and wider than the old-style car, but more roomy inevery respect. But of all the new departures none have given more gen-uine satisfaction than the provisions made for a comfortable nights are cars and cars,—some of them gorgeous in brass filigree, resplen-dent in brilliant contrasts and dazzling in veneer. All that the mostardent assthete could sigii for, to look at, is there ; but when night dimsthe glamour and the body yearns for rest, then may come something quitediscordant with previous feelings : mattresses that do not reach withinten or twelve inches of the side of the car, and so abbreviated thatthe feet of the luckless passenger hang like Hama
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