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Show Page A10 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, January 21, 1990 Florida firm brings luxury trains to U.S. CITY, Fla. (AP) Grand pianos and haute cuisine. Mahogany and gold. A Florida com- Passengers will have access to a fax machine and telephone along n the route that was picked in part for its scenery, said Bill Spann, president of the Florida company. No single seats will be available only cabins. PANAMA Chicago-Washingto- pany is bringing European-styl- e luxury trains to the American rails for a price. Refurbished Pullman cars started carrying passengers coddled by an staff between Chicago and Washington, D.C., Nov. 15, using Amtrak rails and stations. "Businessmen holding meetings, newlyweds, people having affairs" are some of the intended passengers, Spann said. The luxury cars will be hitched to Express American-Europea- n ILLY: Railway Co. patterned the luxury service after the storied Orient Express. Edy Zuger, chief executive officer of Nostalgie Istanbul Orient Express of Zurich, Switzerland, which operates luxury trains in Europe and Asia, is a partner in the $15 million venture. Ten refurbished Pullman cars dating to the 1930s have leather and mahagony interiors trimmed with brass and 24 karat gold. Two club cars have grand pianos. Dining meals cars will serve seven-cours- e on fine china. regular Amtrak trains. One-wa- y fares for the cabins along the route will range from $695 for a single to $1,450 for the biggest cabin, called the "Presidential." Amtrak charges between $103 and $356 one way for trips between Chicago and Washington. Travelers on the Panama preview will pay $425 a person. It cost the company $1 million each to refurbish the Pullman cars. All but one are completed. Chicago-- Washington City-Atlan- ta Indian burial site draws huge crowds - versities to return Indian remains for burial. Ms. Franke said last week that the exhibit had not been the target of complaints or protests but clearly was a sort of thing." The rest of the museum, 35 miles southwest of Peoria, will remain open. Its main exhibit centers on the burial plot containing the skeletons of 237 people who lived in the Illinois River valley in Fulton County about 800 to 1,000 years ago. Record .EWISTOWN, 111. (AP) crowds are lining up to see an exhibit featuring the exposed graves of prehistoric American Indians before a state museum closes it next month. The burial grounds exhibit at the d Dickson Mounds Museum drew 3,412 visitors last weekend, or 10 times the normal number for a Sunday in January, said Judith Franke, museum director. "We had a pretty hectic weekend," Ms. Franke said Monday. "We had more people in one day than we had for the entire month of January last year when our total attendance was 1,418." Publicity about plans to close the exhibit of Indian skeletons Feb. 1 sparked the surge ;n attendance, Ms. Franke said. The museum draws 80,000 visitors a year. state-funde- Tun-stall- the Greathouse Ranch site, where the Kid and his pals were been pressuring museums and uni his-grave.- almost captured in November, 1880, near the village of Corona; In a tiny public cemetery a short Los Portales, an outlaw hideout distance away is the Kid's grave. site near the city of Portales; hundred-poun- d granite market, the stone Grzelachowski House, Bis and recovered been stolen having where the Kid ate Christmas dinner 1950, is securely times since three the day after his capture at Stinkin place. ing Springs, in the village of Puerta Equally secure is the legend of de Luna; Kid. Several annual events in the and the Chisum Ranch House New Mexico see to that. The oldest site outside the city of Roswell. of them is Old Lincoln Days the first weekend of every August, folFor true Kid fans, though, the lowed by Old Fort Days in Fort culmination of any visit to Billy the weekend of evKid Country is the trek to the city Sumner the second June. ery Caprock Amphitheater, of Fort' Sumner in east New Mexiof San Jon, hosts near the village co. historical-musicdrama "Billy the Four miles south of the city is the on Thursday, Friday and the Kid" of the trail. proverbial end e to On the west side of the parade Saturday nights from of the ground original fort, today The newest of- - them is Billy the preserved as Fort Sumner State Kid-PGarrett Historical Days. Monument, stood rancher Pete Hosted the nonprofit Billy the by Maxwell's home. There in the darKid Outlaw Gang, a preservation-promotio- n kened first-flobedroom of the group founded in 1987 by former commanding officer's quartJoe and Maryln Bowlin of Taiban, ers, Garrett surprised, shot and it's held in Ruidoso, 32 miles from killed the Kid on July 14, 1881. "The Maxwell home isn't there Lincoln, every July 14. The Bowlins, who live less than a anymore," advised Jack Rigney, from the Stinking Springs site, mile superintendent of Fort Sumner State Monument from 1973 to 1981. represent nearly 1,200 Billy buffs "What was left of it was washed who plunked down $10 and got a license plate and a subscription to away in a flood in 1937." of Lincoln Today superintendent State Monument, he remembered the powerful hold the Kid had on RUSSIA, POLAND visitors. I i al mid-Jun- mid-Augu- at or I PROGRAMS AVAILABLE ftl toll-fre- ,"V ). 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The kids who saw those are the baby: boomers travleing today. The inter; est in the Kid is never going to diet They just can't get enough of him- ;The gang's most popular product is a brochure called Billy the Kid-PGarrett' Trail, America's Mjst Enduring Legend. In it, the gang,' profiled 22 historic sites germane to; the telling of the Kid's tale. For; a free copy, contact the New Mexico Tourism & Travel Division ED&TD; Room 751, Joseph M. Montoya Bldg., 1100 St. Francis Drive, Santa Fe, N.M., 87503. Outside New MExir e (800 co, call the division ST. GEORGE & LAS VEGAS SPECIAL ; .hi in Wickliffe, V Kid," Rigney estimated. "Mostly, though, they came to see I Ky., is also closing a similar Indian burial exhibit which an official said has sparked local complaints from Indian groups. "Exhibiting human remains is not ethical or the most sensitive thing to do and we intend to close our exhibit," said Kit Wesler, director of the Wickliffe Mounds Research Center. A musuem American Indian groups have 7 (Continued from A9) nearby Memory Lane Cemetery. Much later, the Kid was convicted of murdering Sheriff Brady. The 1881 trial was held in La Mesilla, a sleepy former Mexican border town on the outskirts of Las Cruces in south New Mexico. There, about 45 miles north of El Paso, Texas, if you amble among La Mesilla's 40 shops and galleries, you can poke your head into the gallery that occupies the onetime jail and courthouse that held the Kid. For those who like to immerse themselves in the life of the Kid, there is enough esoterica for a five-da- y visit to Billy the Kid Country. For them names and places like these need no introduction: the ruins of Blazer's Mill, the site of a furious gun battle in April, 1878, and the graves of two of its victims, Buckshot Roberts and Dick Brewer, in the Mescalero Apache village of Mescalero; 's the site of rancher John February, 1878 murder, the spark that ignited the Lincoln County War, atop a remote canyon above the village of San Patricio; the rock cabin site at Stinking Springs, where Garrett and his posse captured the Kid in December, 1880, east of the city of Fort Sumner; "I'd say 75 percent of the people who came to the state monument each year, came because of the 386South i Stye Patljj Herald invites you to riMlK 11 kills wlTlM UMMtfll 7 Day Cruise Aboard Holland America's ms Niew Amsterdam Departs March 24 the sparkling Caribbean aboard the magnificent ms Niew The cuisine is superb, the nightlife dazzling, the endless, and the relaxation complete. 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