OUR TRAIN. Comparatively few of those who may receive copies of the TRANS-CONTINENT- AL will haye an opportnnity to see the train upon which it is printed. We therefore give a brief description. The train is made up of eight of the most elegant cars ever drawn over an American railway. They were built by the order of the Messrs. Pullman, to be completed in time for the present excur- sion, and to be first used in conveying the members of the Board of Trade of the eity of Boston, and their families, from their homes on the Atlantic coast to the shores of the Pacific. The train leads off with a baggage car, the front of which has five large ice clos- ets, and a refrigerator, for the storing of fruits, meat and vegetables. The bal- ance of the car is for baggage, with the exception of a space in one corner, where stands a new quarto-medium Gordon Press, upon which this paper is printed, Next comes a very handsome smoking car, Which is divided into four rooms. The first is the printing office, which is supplied with black walnut cabinets filed with the latest styles of type for newspaper and job work. This depart- ment, we may say without egotism, has been thoroughly tested, and has already turned out some as fine work as can be done by those of our brothers who have a local habitation. Adjoining this is a neatly fitted up lobby and wine room, Next comes a large smoking room, with euchre tables, etc. The rear end of the car has a beautifully furnish- ed hair-dressing and shaving saloon. Following this come the two new ho- tel cars, the “ Arlington” and the ‘“ Re- vere,” both of which are completely and elegantly furnished, and are thorough- ly adapted to the uses for which they are destined. Two magnificent saloon cars, the “ Pal- inyra” and ‘ Marquette,’ come next. The train is completed by the two ele- gant commissary ears, the“ St. Charles” and “St. Cloud,” each of which is fin- ished in all of its appointments as any of the other carriages noticed. The enttre train is equipped with every desirable accessory that may tend in the least to promote the ease of the passen- gers—elaborate hangings, costly uphol- stery, artistic gilding, and beautifully finished wood work marking every por- tion of their arrangements. Among the new features introduced with these cars are two well-stocked libraries, replete with choice works of fiction, history, poetry, ete., and two of the improved Burdett organs. These instruments are complete in every detail of stops, pedals, double banks of keys, ete. The cars of this train are lighted during the night in anewand novel manner, there being under each an ingeniously constructed machine which produces from liquid hydro-carbon, a gas equal in brilliancy to that made in the ordinary way. The apparatus is furnished by the U.S. Gas Light Co., whose offices are at 155 West Twenty-ninth street, New York: The generator is so arranged that it pro- vides gas for any required number of burners in the car and no more. and when the burners are all turned off the generator ceases to act until they are re- opened, Geo. P. Ganster, Esq., repre- sents the company and accompanies the train as far as Chicago. ep UR PARTY. The folowing list of names compose the party from the Boston Board of Trade, now on this train, bound for the Pacific coast: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Hon. Alex. Hl. Rice, Maj. George P. Denny. Hon. J. M. S. Williams, Jas. W. Biiss, Edward W. Hinsley. Frederick Allen and wife. H.S. Barry. Miss Josie W. Bliss. Addie P. Kinsley. Mary L. Kinsley . Chas. 8S. Kendall. Miss M. C. Lovejoy. Hon. John B. BrownJohn Lewis. and wite. E. W. Burr and son, John L. Bremer. Geo. D. Baldwin and wife. Miss L. E. Billings. Chas. W. Brooks. M.S. Bolles. Alvah Crocker and wife. Jas. Longley _and wife. Geo. Myrick and wife. Col. L. B. Marsh and wife. C.F. MéClure and wife. Joseph McIntyre, Sterne Morse. Fulton Paul. Mrs. F.CunninghamF. H. Peabody. Thos. Dana, Miss M. E. Dana. Mrs. Thos. Dana. 2d Mrs. Geo. P. Denny Arthur B. Denny, Cyrus Dupee; and wife. John H. Eastburn and wife. Robt. B. Forbes and wife. J.S. Foge. Mrs. E. In. Poole. Misses Farnsworth. Robert O. Fuller. J. Warren Faxon. N. W. Farwell and wife. — Misses Farwell. Curtis Guild and wife. OC. L. Harding and wife. Miss N. Harding. Edgar Harding. J. F. Hunnewell. J. F. Heustis. W.S. Houghton. and wife. D. C. Holder and wife. Miss C, Harrington. A. L. Haskell and wife. Miss Alice J. Haley. J. M. Haskell and wife. H. O. Houghton and wife. John Humphrey. Hamilton. A. Hill and wife. Benjamin James. C.F. Kittredge. Mrs. C. A. Kinsley. wife and servy’t. Miss F. Peabody. Miss L. Peabody, »Mast. F. E. Peabody. Rev. E. G. Porter. Miss M. F. Prentiss. James W. Roberts. and wife. Wim. Roberts. Josiah Reed. S. B. Rindge and wife. Mast. F. H. Rindge. J. M. B. Reynolds and wife. John H. Rice. Hon. Ste. Salesbury. M.S. Stetson and wife. D. R. Sortwell, and wife. Alvin Sortwell, I. H. Shapleigh. T. Albert Taylor and wife, i. B. Towne. Lawson Valentine and wife. Miss Valentine. Rev. R.C.Waterston and wife, A. Williams. Dr. H.W. Williams and wife. N. D. Whitney and wife. ‘Judge G. W. Warren. Geo. A. Wadley and wife. Henry T. Woods. Mrs.J.M.8S.Williams Emily L. Williams. Carrie T. Williams, J. Bert. Williams. PULLMAN’S PALACE PAR oMP'y, Incorporated under Special Act of the Legislature of Illinois, A. D. 1867. CAPITAL, - - #4.000,000. GEO. M. PULLMAN, Pres. & Gen. Man, A. B. PULLMAN, Gen’l. Sup’t. 0. W. ANGELL, Secretary. DIRECTORS. Geo. M. Pullman. John Crearer. H. E. Sargent. Thomas A. Scott. Robert Harris. Henry R. Pearson. Amos T. Hall. Genl. Offices, 102 Michigan Ave., Chicago. F. KORBEL & BROS. 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