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...jokes are mainly occasioned by her unique naivete, in contrast with the worldly wisdom of a fat man and an actress whom she meets on the trip and re-encounters in her baffled adventures at a bachelor's apartment. The plot is furthered by a gunshot on a Pullman car, causing the fat comic to poke crude fun at a little girl who is traveling with her mother...
...Pullman travel in 1929 took its worst slump in five years. Though the company operated more cars (8,842), more miles (1,206,767,059) than ever before the number of passengers (33,434,268) fell off 2,638,943 from the five-year peak. The average Pullman passenger traveled 420 miles on each trip last year, 25 miles further than he did in 1925. But where 13 people rode in each Pullman car in 1925, only 11 people rode in 1929. Result: many more empty upper berths...
Last week Pullman Co. announced a plan to help compensate itself for the loss of a million and a half berth passengers On May 1 it will reduce its rates 22% on sections (upper and lower berths combined). It hopes single passengers, to get privacy by day, air and space by night, will buy sections instead of lowers, thus supply revenue from otherwise empty profitless uppers. Present section rate New York-Chicago: $16.20. New section rate...
Arrive Harrisburg, Pa. (change to Pullman...
...quarter-hour less than it take the N. Y., N. H. & H.'s other crack Boston-New York trains, the Merchants and the Knickerbocker. More expensive by $1.30 than either of these two, a ride on the Yankee Clipper costs $12.26. The train, all Pullman, is in two sections of seven cars, each named after a famed oldtime clipper ship. To suggest the sea, car interiors are blue-green. Windows open like windows in limousines, are said by the company not to stick. One Grace Harriet McKay, great-granddaughter of Clipper Ship Builder Donald McKay, christened the train...