What We Are Coming To

The latest thing in the interurban roads is a buffet and parlor combination car, twenty of which are being built by the Union Traction company of Indiana, controlled by the Widener-Elkins syndicate. These cars will be finished in mahogany, will have four 75 horse-power motors, equipped with air brakes. There will be a small kitchen. In the buffet department will be parlor chairs and in the other section regular day coach seats. The twenty cars when finished will cost the Union Traction company $240,000. The Indiana Traction company will use these buffet parlor cars in the express service that it will establish between Indianapolis and Marion, Ind. An extra fare will be charged on them. The only stops to be made by these cars between Indianapolis and Marion will be at Anderson and Elwood. The distance of 76 miles, including all stops, will covered in two hours. The cars will have sufficient power to travel at the rate of 60 miles an hour.