SEE AMERICA, THEN LET YOUR CHEST SWELL WITH PRIDE THAT YOU
ARE AN AMERICAN.

The Pullman tourist sleeping car, which you can find on all through
trains of the different railroads throughout the United States, are to
the traveler of moderate means what the Pullman car is to the
millionaire traveler. They are designed for the comfort and convenience
of the traveling public to whom the expenditure of a dollar more or less
is a matter of moment, and who cannot afford or do not care for the
small extra show and tinsel of the Pullman sleeping car, but whose only
desire is to make their journey pleasant, comfortable and safe. This
they can do as well in the tourist as in the standard sleeping car.

There is a difference in price that will amount to a tidy sum in a long
trip across the continent, but that fact does not always appeal to the
traveling public, as I have had the poorest of passengers in the palace
car and at other times a millionaire and his family would be my
passengers in the tourist cars. It seems to me a matter of fact and one
which my long experience seems to verify, that the American traveler
does not care so much about his comfort as his ability to get there, as
the average American traveler is always in a hurry and in nine cases out
of ten, he is thinking more about the speed of the train than he is
about his immediate surroundings or the price he had paid for his
ticket. The railroads, knowing this, have made and are continually
making every effort to add to the speed and safety of their trains, but
traveling long distances is a tiresome matter at the best and for that
reason the railroads are continually making improvements with a view to
add to the comfort, convenience and pleasure of the traveler, and in a
journey such as one from Chicago to Los Angeles, for instance, there is
no time to stop for meals and such trivial matters as a shave, as time
is money lost to most of the passengers and to the railroad company
also. For that reason the sleeping car is provided that you may sleep
with as much comfort as if you were in your own home, the dining car is
provided to furnish you a good meal on the fly and at a price that all
can afford. The library and drawing room cars are provided, where you
can make yourself as comfortable as you can in your own house. The
porter will get your morning paper, furnish you with writing materials
or your morning high ball, and look after you like a hen after her
brood.