Presidential Trains

The Presidents of two republics bought sumptuous private trains last week, and, since their own countrymen could not make them, they turned to the railway shops of two other republics.

$36,000 Car. President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, the Ghazi ("The Victorious"), satisfied his relatively simple wants by decreeing that his private train shall be made up primarily of an ordinary engine and cars; but shall have attached at the end a $36,000 "Presidential Car" which was completed for delivery by the German firm of Wegmann last week. It contains, at the forward end, an electric kitchen; then a dining-room for 14 persons; next, the President's bedroom and bath with a marble tub; adjoining this a smoking-room in green and gold, decorated with Bosporous landscape murals; finally, as a great innovation, an observation platform of U. S. pattern.

$375,000 Train. If President Kemal's car is a luxury, the train just finished by the Pullman Co. of Chicago for President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico requires the invention of new superlatives.

The interior of each of its five cars is carried out in a different period design, reflecting the Montezuman glory of ancient Mexico, the rich transition styles, and finally the highly futuristic treatment of contemporary Mexican artists.