Show 6A Standard-Examin- Nov 11 1989 Saturday er National Luxury train takes inaugural voyage to Chicago By BOB WIEDRICH ‘For the first time in this century Chicago Tribune EXABOARD THE AMERICAN-EUROPEAPRESS — The duck consomme with a julienne of oriental vegetables gently sloshed toward the edge of the china bowl as this luxury train rounded the curve into historic Harpers Ferry W Va Had John Brown been standing trackside instead of moldering in his grave for 130 years the fiery abolitionist probably would have gaped along with the townsfolk at the five blue gray and yellow N trimmed railway passenger cars slipping through town on the end of Amtrak's daily Washington DC to Chicago train the Capitol Limited For this beautifully outfitted rolling palace with its wealth of rich Honduran mahogany and embossed leather wall paneling was a memorable sight as it made its inaugural voyage Wednesday from beautifully restored Union Station in the nation's capital to its counterpart near downtown Chicago Departing to the spontaneous applause of on- lookers the gleaming cars drew admiring but often astonished looks from people watching its passage the finest train the world isn’t European it’s American’ — Developer William Spann in fast However there the comparison ends There is no way that Amtrak's spartan accommodations can measure up to Spann's train Nor would it be fair to compare them By the time the train had crested the eastern continental divide at Sand Patch Md diners at the route through Maryland along the train's 766-miWest Virginia Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana' “For the first time in this century the finest train in the world isn't European it’s American’ declared William Spann a Panama City Fla entrepreneur and developer who masterminded the first of two three-hoseatings were happily munching on a salad of three greens and tiny flowers doused in an herbal vinaigrette dressing And by time the exquisitely renovated cars were skirting the mist shrouded Susquehana River in Pennsylvania the poached salmon with caviar garni veal roulade with a touch of mederia and the sacher torte with cognac cream had been demol- gers ished by all 54 riders Surrounded by $50000 in original oil paintings uniforms for the $100000 worth of European-style- d crew and a $15 million price tag for the entire venture the media and other invited guests were being transported in a style few have witnessed on Ameri-ca- n rails Even in the heyday of railroad passenger service earlier in this century only a Rockefeller encoun ur le train'vcreation Patterned after the fabled Nostalgie Istanbul Orient Express the Americanized version is shorter (five cars instead of 25 cars) but lacks nothing in the luxurious amenities that embrace its 54 passenA premium fare enterprise the one-wa- y charge for a bedroom occupied by a single passenger is $695 compared to $293 for comparable space on an Amtrak sleeper Both include dinner and break tered such opulence in his private rail car Raymond Alan of Hammond Ind the car attendant on one of the three sleepers had discarded his sky-bld cape as he carefully made up berths But his artfully tailored blue jacket and contrasting black trousers still resembled a Napoleonic field marshal's garb “I found the uniforms in a 1923 catalog for the staffs of passenger liners” Spann exas he quaffed a Napa Valley champagne plained specially labeled for the express At the center of the club car pianist John was generating the same repertoire of 1940s tunes that he offers audiences in New York City clubs However instead of working among munWallowitch dane saloon trappings the tuxedo-cla- d was seated at a grand piano beneath a dark blue gold leaf stars while ceiling speckled with flanked by a wall covered with 16 coats of glazes imbued with gold and brass leaf Edy Zuker chief executive officer of the Zurich Switzerland-base- d Istanbul Orient Express and one of four partners with Spann in the US venture pronounced himself more than pleased silk-line- ue trans-Atlant- ic Wal-lowit- 23-kar- at Tobacco town curbs public smoking GREENSBORO NC (AP) — This tobacco town now has the state's toughest ban on smoking thanks to a pregnant w oman w ho grew tired of having smoke blown in her face at a neighborhood grocery store “People don't have the right to pump poison in me” said attorney Pete Clary who voted for the controversial referendum MORRISASK MR FOSTER TRAVEL Is Proud To Sponsor which passed by only 173 votes out of nearly 30000 cast in Tuesdav's election While Greensboro may not be on the scale of nearby -Salem or Durham in terms of tobacco production it is still a tobacco stronghold Lorillard Inc which makes Newport Kent and True cigarettes is one of the city's major employers with 2300 workers in this town of nearly 200000 people "We don't feel like it's going to stop here” said Earl Jaggers a union leader at the Lorillard plant “These people (antismoking proponents) are going to move on to other cities and ON STAGE ALASKA Winston- states'' The Travel Show Of The Year Please Join Us For Monday November 13 1989 6:30 pm Ogden Park Hotel “Central Pacific Ballroom” 247 24th Street Ogden Utah restaurants 1 to give the restau- rants and other public places time to prepare The ordinance the toughest in any North Carolina city requires restaurants seating 50 or more to set aside at least 25 “It seems like a painful pill to swallow until everything gets worked out” said David Hudgins spokesman for the group which pushed the referendum “We’re not saying ‘Don't smoke’ ” he said Friday 394-266- 7 Clearfield 774-808- 5 Please Areospace Brigham 627-290734-212- 0 1 Morris - ' smoke’ ” Lori Faley is credited with starting the referendum after she could do nothing about shoppers smoking in the checkout line at her neighborhood 3Db Ask Mr Foster Travel Please present this portion of the ad at the door for prize drawings Nitnc AJilrcv: C Srirc jf- Ap- stalled Choo-Cho- o’ ‘Poo-Po- o 0(Jen non-smoke- rs effect Jan The city council could enact the ordinance within two weeks putting smoking bans in elevators and large retail stores and sections in most RSVP Associated Press Members of Greensboro to Alleviate Smoking Pollution on election night Otherwise if both sides agree “We're saying ‘Don't expect me percent of their seats for the referendum would go into to have to breathe your as fate of waste is decided By FRED GRIMM Newspapers Kmght-Ridde- MOSS POINT Miss — The ” notorious “Poo-Po- o sits forlornly on a railroad siding in this little southeastern Mississippi town a reluctant smelly symbol of America’s escalating Choo-Choo- waste wars But the real stink that has transformed this train into the pariah of the rails is mainly political The uproar fed by the very presumption of parking somebody else’s unwanted sewage (particularly Yankee sewage) down in sleepy little Moss Point Miss has created an extraordinary disposal problem Mississippi wants it gone Louisiana turned up its nose and banished the train a week ago Nobody else will take it with the possible exception of Baltimore which banished it south in the first place well Angry demonstrators two angry demonstrators anyway marched back and forth in front of Moss Point City Hall on Friday protesting the train Mandy Hollins carried a white d piece of cardboard in red ink “We still want the Poo Poo Choo Choo out of our community” “It’s so callous Thousands of tons of human waste from Baltimore sent down to our little community” she said “Well we don’t need it We’re not the dumping ground of the nation Send it back to Baltimore” she hand-lettere- said Gov Ray Mabus has threatened to fine the unhappy owners of the 5000 tons of sludge $2 million a day until they pull it out of the Magnolia State “Mississippi is not a dumping ground for someone else’s sewage” he railed Danny L Stubbs an official with GSX the company that wants to turn the sludge into earth back in Louisiana stood along the sidetrack close to the infamous gondola cars “What do you smell?” he demanded Not much Not wonderful mind you but “No worse than any bar in a New said Orleans” photographer from Time Magazine peering down the row of black and yellow cars The odor from the train was insignificant compared to the malodorous air around a nearby paper mill or the chemical plant or the fish oil plant- Adrift sailors’ story is confirmed Minneapolis St Paul Star Tribune The New Zealand government has concluded that a Minneapolis man and three others were telling the truth about their improbable h odyssey on a capsized yacht in the South Pacific The marine growth on the submerged hull of the trimaran and a computer analysis of wind and currents in the region supported the sailors’ tory the New Zealand Transport Ministry said Thursday “They say I was telling the truth!” said Minneapolis sailor Jim N'alepka 38 in mock surfour-mont- Rose-Noel- le prise He was reached by phone at his home in New Zealand where he is writing a magazine account of the ordeal N'alepka and three fellow sailors spent 19 days adrift in the waters east and north of New Zea1 land before crashing ashore on Great Barrier Island on Sept 30 Missing and feared dead they emerged to tell an amazing tale of survival that rivaled the longest such ordeals ever recorded The longest known case of solo survival aboard a raft is 4Va months by a sailor during World War II relative good health and the fact that radio But the men’s transmissions soon after the reported capsizing June 4 seemed inconsistent with where they eventually came ashore prompted a government inquiry into their story “The miraculous voyage of the is testimony to the Rose-Noel- le benefits of a sound vessel ample provisions and the determination of its crew” concluded Transport Minister William Jeffries “If there ever was any question was not that the overturned and drifting for 119 days then this investigation dispels those doubts" he said The report also exonerated searchers who were 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