A ball-room car is the latest novelty introduced on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road, and recently a merry party of St Louis belles and beaux, made an excursion over the road and danced the racquet with the train moving at forty miles an hour. The ball-room was in a large baggage car, sixty feet long by fifteen wide. The floor was elegantly carpeted, the walls beautifully painted, hung with pictures and decorated with bunting, evergroens and garlands of roses. 'ihere was an orchestra of eight peiees, and refreshments were pas; ed around, every hour. I
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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1205, 8 December 1882, Page 2
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97Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1205, 8 December 1882, Page 2
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