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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES. TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1928 A -------------------------- EN ------ HILE .auway presidents, governors-general and even such small fry as division superintendents of railways insist on and get the latest in steel constructed railway coaches for their personal 'use, Their Majesties, the King and Queen, still travel in coaches built for the use of King Edward and Queen Alexandra! But do not think for one minute that they travel in old fashioned style or that they have anything but the most mod- ern equipment and comforts around them, The Royal train of England, familiar to almost everyone in the old country, is, to Canadian and American conceptions at least, 8 gaudy affair, We are not used to trains painted in carmine lake and pure white, and lined with gold leaf, But in England this constitutes the traditional colors of the coaches of the London and Northwestern Railway, They are to English eyes a familiar and loved sight, According to many facts about the Royal train recited in an interesting article recently published in the London, Mid- land & Southern Magazine, the train is stabled at Wolverton, It is, however, a mistake to refer to it as a train, It is many trains. There are about twenty coaches, and they are formed into various sized trains according to the size and make-up of the Royal party which is to travel, ' With the traditional used, the only external difference the coaches to the old coaches of the L. & N.W., is the fact that the tires are painted white, "Rubber Tires" This has led to the statement at times that "it is no wonder the Royal train travels smoothly, he: cause it has pneumatic tires." A typical Royal train consists of ahout ten coaches, It is about 630 feet long, excluding the engine and tender, and weighs ahout 370 tons, Next the engine is what is know] in England as a corridor brake, I has compartments for tools and spare parts and two first class com- partments, Telegraph and tele- phone instruments are also car- ried, together with means of con- necting up to the telegraph wires that run alongside the right of way so that in case of a breakdown word could be sent immediately to the. nearest signal office. For this feason two skilled tele- graphers always travel with the train, while there are about half a dozen of the carriage and wagon department staff of various trades who act as train attendants, keep the train clean inside and out, and are avalalble to effect repairs if necessary, coloring | of room or This first car is also the dining car for the staff and has a kitchen, In tho two firét class compart- ments are arrangements so that four berths ean be madg down at night for servants of the Royal household, Ladies' Coach The second coach, on journey, would probably sleeping saloon for the Lady-in- Waiting and her maid. If Princess Mary were on the train she and her maid would travel in it, This sa- loon is more or less for ladies only. If the train was made up for a day journey then the second coach would likely be a 57-foot semi- Royal saloon, and in this the Lady- in-Waiting and lady passengers would travel. However, if the train was a very small one, the King would prob- ably travel in the second coach. The twa Royal saloons differ somewhat from the rest of the train. The colors are the same out- side, but the cornice moulding is carved with an oak leaf design and gilded. The headstock ends are carved with lions' heads and gilded. The door handles and long com- mode handles are gold-plated, and all are hand-chased, mess- train a night be the SAEED Interesting photographs of the interior of the Saloons of the Royal Train used by Their Majesties when travelling on the railroad, Telephones are fitted throughout in order that the staff in front may communicate with those in the rear with- out passing through the Royal suite, The Royal dining car gained the grand prix at the Paris Exhibition of 1900. The picture at the upper left is of the interior of the King's day saloon. Centre is an interior view of the Queen's day saloon, and, right, the interior of the King's night saloon, showing the silver-plated bed. The lower picture shows passing through Crewe, The interior decorations in the Royal coaches were planned and selected by Her Majesty, PAGE NINE COMPLETE "TRAIN FOR THEIR MAJESTIES PRP PPbb Phi bbb bbb bil Pht b bbb rhb bbb SPP the Royal Train On the lower panels of the out- side are the Royal btrests of the various order of chivalry--St. George, The Garter, - St. Andrew, St. Patrick, and so on. These are hand painted, Special Footboards In place of the ordinary foot- boards there are leather covered folding steps--relics of the days of the old horse-drawn State coach- though as a matter of fact the horse drawn landau which Majesties use today on state fitted with similar es, open Their occasions fis steps. His Majesty enters the saloon by two large polished teak doors open- ing to a square vestibule, Next is the King's smoking room, which is furnished in "fiddle back' mahog- any, so known because of its wavy grain, In each corper of the smok- ing room there is a chair, covered with apple-green morocco, and on each side a mahogany table. This is the room in which the King usually sits during the day- time, and the Queen, when they are travelling together, gene sits there with him, as, al the Queen has a saloon of her own, in most cases the Kihg's saloon only is used in the make-up of the train, except on night journeys or when the Queen has to change her costume during the journey. Next to the smoking room is the of the trimmed in day compartment, some furniture of which is grecn silk rep, something which the Queen asked for personally. The rest of the furniture is trimmed in a copy of Jacobean tapestry, with aint figures ona creamy ground. was specially selected by the Queen who, in fact, spent a great deal of time and trouble selecting the colors and materials to furnish saloons, The two Royal saloons were or- iginally built for the use of King Edward and Queen Alexandra, as Queen Victoria's saloon had be- come out-of-date with its some- what stuffy mid-Victorian decora- tions, and in the King's day com- these partment is a relic ward. He had fallen and hroken his ankle. long time to mend, to give him rest during the day a special couch, with -a lowering bottom end was put into the couch. It is still there, In desk aff of King Ed- downstairs It took a and: in order this same fitted ont airs of State, room there is a for dealing with which are always brought to the King by special messenger 'at a station where the Royal train stops. In the King's bedroom, which is next, is a silver-plated bed, a satin- wood dressing table and other furniture. The next compartment is the bathroom, with its marble wash basin. This was originally a dress ing room, but the bath was install- ed during the war, when the King spent long periods in his train, Modern Heating Beyond the bathroom is the com- partment of the sergeant-footman who attends the King. The master switches for the electric lighting, heating, and fans are in this com- partment, which is furnished with an arm-chair seat which makes up into a bed at night. Even the heating is very modern The entrance vestibule and the sergeant-footman"s room are heat- ed by steam, but the rest of the goach is heated by electricity from a 50 volt train lighting set carried in the rear brake van. Even in the cold weather the King likes very little heat in his room, preferring to keep it cold and throw a travelling rug over his knees, During warm weather bowls of ice are used to keep the temperature down. Queen's Saloons The Queen's saloon has some- what different internal arrange- ments, The color scheme is blue. The Queen's day compartment is furnished somewhat similarly and has two writing desks. In fact, it seems to have two of everything balanced on opposite sides, so much so that if a mirror were puta- cross the centre of the compartment the reflection of one end in the mir- ror would give the appearance of the whole compartment. The rea- son for this is that the saloon was originally designed for Queen Alex- andra, who always travelled with Princess Victoria as a companion. The writing chairs have rather delightful seats. When sat in, they feel as if one were sitting on an air cushion with a' slight puncture in it, and one gradually sinks into the cushion. It is stuffed with very fine eiderdown. The furniture fis made of satinwood, and the walls of the two saloons, except in the King's smoking room, are finished in white enamel, the decorations being Georgian in character, The white enamel was King Ed- ward's idea, to give the interior a yacht-like effect. Next comes the room Queen's dresser, and Queen's bedroom. The furniture in here is covered with blue silk brocade with a de- the the of then sign of pagodas and little China= men sprinkled all over it, The Queen's bathroom, adjoining, has a rose-pink marble wash-stand, and a bath similar to the King's. Be- yond is the Queen's footman's com=« partment, similar to that of the sergeant-footman, Private Phone System There is a private telephoned along the train so that people on each end of the train can communis cate with others at the far end, without having to go through the Royal compartments. The Royal dining car comes m+ mediately hehind the Royal saloon, with the kitchen end trailing, This car is of the standard type, finish- ed in marqueterie. It was built in 1900, and is, in fact, one which was exhibited at the Paris Exhibi« tion last year and gained the Grand Prix, The upholstery, of course, differs from that in standard din- ing cars, being of a blue and brown tapestry. The members of the Royal Fam- ily and the Royal suite dine here. The Royal suite saloon follows the dining car. In this travel the equer- ries and other members of the Royal suite. This saloon is finish- ed inside in white enamel. They are arranged wth an at tendant's compartment at one end, a large room about 17 fééf Tong and nine feet wide, In the centre of the coach, with a smaller open- ing out of each end of the large room. The large room has folding doors across its centre so that it can, if need be, be made into two rooms. Behind this car is a similar sa- loon used by railway officials ac- companying the train and behind that again another dining car for the use of railway officials and members of the Royal household. The last coach on the train car- ries the equipment with which the train is lighted and heated, and in here the luggage and bedding, ete., is stowed. Before a Royal train of this kind is made up, the time-table Is work- ed out, the exact make-up ascer- tained from the list of those to travel on it, the exact length and weight ascertained, so that the en- gine may stop the King's en- trance at a certain place at each station, and so those at the sta- tions will know where to put the carpet. Buy Canadian Products A Canadian food made of Cana- dian Wheat in our beautiful new, sun-lit Canadian Factory at' Niagara Falls, Canada. ER Srogie- ForLone sd Head Office Rat Retord S. F. EVERSON, Local Private Wire System 11 King Street East, Oshawa Phones 143 and 144 GRAIN Above CP.R. Office PARTY WILL SEEK MUMMIFIED BODIES Pass through Montreal En Route to Siberian Arctic Coast Bound for the Siberian Arctic coast to explore new lands and to seek for reputed Mongolian mummies older than those of the Egyptians but, unlike the latter, mummified by nature in caves, members of the Stoll-McCracken Expedition of the American Mu- seum of Natural History reached Montreal from New York by C.N. R., en route to Prince Rupert, B. C., from which port they will sail in the good ship Morrisey, under command of Captain Bob Bartleit of Arctic fame. The - Stoll-MeCracken comprises Harold McCracken, leader; Char- les E. Stoll, director; Captain Ro- bert A. Bartlett, of the Morrisey; H. E. Anthony, naturalist; Mrs. Merle E. Stoll, still photographer; F. L. Jacques, to Dr. Anthony; Edward M. Weyer, archeologist and assistant to Mec- Cracken; Andrew Johnston, taxi- dermist and Edward Manley, wire- less operator. With 'the exc is of McCracken, Mr. and Mrs. St and Manley, the members of expedition are all from the staff of the American Museum of Na- tural History. The Mongolian mummies which artist, and assistant the party will seek were reported to be in existence several years ago by the late Dr. William H. Dall f the Smithsonian It is said that none have been taken from were they have been lying thousands of years or post-glacial period. The carliest settlers on the Aleutian Islands, according to Dr. Dall, buried their dead in caves and in some of these the at- mospheric conditions were such that the bodies were preserved in a natural state. The natives of the islands refused to molest the mummies, there being a tradition fostered by the medicine men of (he tribes, that anyone interfering with them or with their resting places was courting certain death. On one occasion a Swedish fisher- man is reported to have taken one of the mummies into his boat with the cxpressed intention of bring- ing it to the United States. His boat sailed away and was never lostitute. the caves, w for possibly since the again heard from, according to the story. Explore Strange Lands addition to searching for mummies, the expedition will ex- plore Czar Nicholas ]I Land, an is- land of unknown extent north of Cape Chelyuska, off the coast of Asiatic Siberia, about 500 miles south of the Pole. Jt will study the economic possibilities of Kam- chatka which is rich in timber, coal, gold, lead, zinc and other minerals, but will be chiefly con- cerned in seeking for the museum specimens of birds and animals of the Far North, hardly any of which are found in any museum. These will include Siberian .sheep, tran- sitional ruminants between the ovis poli and the sheep Of this couatry; Siberia grizzlies and moose a otters ang ribbon seals, which are unique in that they have a band of white across their breasts Only one specimen of this species has so far been secur- ed and it is not, good. In addi- In eed = A ppd SRR The Carew Lumber Co., Limited. 74 Athol Street West Ha a A a > oe easels > LUMBER MERCHANTS Estimates gladly given Requirements promptly filled Phones 12 and 1111 Stil CR) ea », 5 Weeden = PB BA BA ri tion, Captain Bartlett will conduct oceanographic work, dredging and collecting plankton or fish food, in the northern waters. Early in December Captain Bart- lett moved the Morrisey from Sid; ney, N.S., where she had remains ed for some time to New York to be outfitted for the expedition, after which she was sent via the Panema Canal to Prince Rupe: where the party will board her f their exploration trip which will last for six or seven months. From Prince Rupert they will sail to Ko- diak ,Alaska, and thence to Uni- mak Island on the western end' of the Alaska Peninsula where griz- zlies and bird life are to be found. Thence the party will sail to Jam- chatka and up the Siberian coast. Then, when weather permits phey will go through the Behring Straits to the Arctic Coast meap the mouth of the Kolima River where they expect to find the Si- berian moose and specimens of fresh water fish which are un- known to museums in this country and the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Stoll and Cap- tain Bartlett are joining the other members of the party at Prince Rupert where the final details of outfitting are now in the hands of Captain Bartlett, BLACK MAGIC Father (reading school report): "Conduct, bad; reading, bad; com- position, arithmetic, history, bad --bad--bad! What is the mean- ing of this, Gerald?" Gerald: "I can't understand it, Dad. - Do you think it might be a forgery?" . BLINDNESS AND MUSIC Kingston Whig-Standard) The beautiful concerts given by the blind artists from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind must have been a revelation to many of those who heard them, and it is a pity that there were not many more people to do s0. \ Our columns have borne witness to the really marvelous perfection 'of those artists so we need not say more about this than that the praise was most thoroughly de- served. The point which we wish to make now is to urge how much this Canadian Institute for the Blind is worthy of support. 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