, 1872-12-21
The NcW Quarters Of the Pullman
Palace Car Company.
Novel, but Bound to Be Popular, Fea'
fures introduced.
Railroad Accidents 0ccasioned by the
Late SnoW.Storm.

the NORTHWEST cOTuer OF 4I1cHiSau afHuue auu
Adams street, owned by q. Il. Honore, Esq.
This entire building will be occupied by tho
oficea OF tha Company about the middle Of
February, or as eoon it can be prepared for
their reception. The basement Is to be occupied
by the Upholstering Department., and will be
used as general store-room for everything to
be sat upon. In tho rear end Of the basement
will be an engine-room, and near by fuel
house. The first floor will be occupied by the
Commissary Department., the General store-
keeper and the Purchasing Agent. This is very
imposing room, being 120 feet long by 90 wide,
with frontage on Michigan ayonue and side
entrance On Adams street. This room will be
fitted up like an ordinary store room, with the
exception OF counters, and will be the general
supply depot of the Company for the Middle and
WeEtern Departments. The stock to be kept on
the shelves and floor Of this room will consist Of
the interior equipments Of the cara, and will
make q handsome display. It is intended to
make the fixtures quite as elegant as those Of
most stores Oh the avenue, SO that it ghan pre-
sent from the street an imposing appearance.
The upper stories are reached from Michigan
avenue and Adams street. On the second floor
are the Offices Of the President, First Vice Presi-
dent, General Superintendent, Cashier and Sec
retary. Tho Offices of the President and First
Vice President will. front on Michigan avenue.
These are all entered from spacious hall which
runs the full length Of the building on all the
stories. The third floor will be occupied
By the Second Vice President, tho Mechanical
Superintendent, General Ticket Agent, Division
Superintendent, and Receiving Cashier. The
only Office on the fourth iloor will be tLat Of the
Auditor, the rest Of the story being occupied by
the restaurant and ROOMS for the employees.
The restaurant department is feature in the
building, and Possesses many attractive points,
although as yet it contains no tables groaning'
with rich 6InnnrH The ;aHtAnronf oo+a oFo
kitchen 10 by IS feet, On Adams street. In front
OF this, with windows on Adams street and Mich
igan avenue, is dining-room for employees,
"A by Is rect. Next to this is a dining room for
Is by Is feet. The object Of this restauraut is
to furnish cheap and convenient place for the
working force Of the Company, within the build
ing, to get their dinners, and to cultivate So
ciety, as it wore, among the employees which shall
bo productive Of harmony and good feeling,
while it will interest them the more
in the work for which thoy arc en-
ploycd. The kitchen is to bo fitted with cook
ing range and all the various devices used in
the culinary department Of the palace dining
cars. It will receive fresh mir and light from
windows on Adams street and sky~lisht in the
roof, so that no Offensive odors from meats shall
impregnate the air Of the building. The dining,
or perhaps moro properly, the lunch-ro one. ara
to Be fitted with that style Of orncmontation
peculiar to tho cars OF the Pullman Company,
Two othor very attrac!ive rooms remain to bo
described. These are the library and sitting or
family room. These ere to DO ueed by conduc-
tors ead othor employees Of the Company. Il ia
tho policy Of the Pullman managers, that whatever
tends to make the headquarters OF tho COMPANY
attractive to the employees has the elect to make
them more useful, and this library and reeling-
room will be fitted up in the hope that It
mny draw in the employees from the streets
and delnoralizing influences, md induce the
men to spend their leisure hours under the in
anences ~ Of good books and pleasing literature.
Tho family-room is to be place where tho cn1-
ployes shall meet on. common footing, and
spend o day Or evening now elad then, when OF
duty.
AcrosB the hall from these roor.s, & row Of
bathrooms is located, to ba used by employcs
who run upon the road. The men ere to report
to the heads OF their departments as soon as
they arrive in tho city after which, it necessary
they hare the privilege Of the bathrooms.
Ihe fourth story is nofclt: in railroad build
ing, and the Pullman Company deserve great
compensation an for the mauy superior advantages
1t Will afford it's employees. It is but reasonable
to presume that they will be rewarded By a force
Of faithful and capable men.
The Company have decided to reconmcnco. at
Jersey City, New Jersey, and St. Louis. 40.
But these are to bo Insignificant CON-
RsFoa Rsra 5o.;aa TO- tno car k,5 Mo1s tho Company
Thsso 0'sasa afs to 6a Be- the e this p.nsas s
works of the Company, and lie ouIv Ig shana
Where the palace csrs arc to be CONSTRUCTED and
completed. The exact location has not been
decided upon, but that fact Is not so important
Chicago will be the headquarters OF tho Pull
man Palace Car Company.
Mr.. G. M. Pullman mud family start for New
York this evening in special car, accompanied
dent, and A. B. Pullman, Esq, the Second Vice |
President: One Of the objects OF the trip is to |
select LOCATION for the repair shops at Jersey
City. On Christmas Day Afr. G.. ii. Pullman !
f1ro call Frr
man goes at the solicitation Of various Euro
pean railway officials to introduce his cars up
on the roads Of the Continent. While there ho
will also visit Vienna, to complete arrangements
manufactured for the Vienna Exposition. Tho
Tip ~ln be very hasty one, not extending over |
'wo months.
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
Thursday night was most unfortunate time |
or the railway trains. The tracks of the various
ines centering in the city seemed to- bo in the |
OF destroying angels, and hardly
inc escaped come accident. On Thursday night |
he 2 o'clock Oyster Express OF the Lake Shore !
L Michigan Southern Road, bound West, Was
brown from the track near 11iller's Station, 80
niles out from Chicago, BY misplaced switch,
nd the engine and eleven cars ditched. 4 |
'rakcsman named Lindsy was killed. It is sup
'osed that he jumped from the train On the
sTonG elQe, as ne Was found under one Of the
reight cars crushed fat to the earth He re-
ided in Warren, Indiana, where he YES taken
or burial. 4 Coroners inquest held at Laporto,
the railroad company, and held the
witchman guilty Of gross care1essness The
egular passenger trains we're delayed three
lours by the accident.
collision occurred yesterday morning, On |
he Michigan Central Road, fourteen miles east |
# jackson, Mich, between a I" wild engine and
freight train, whereby the a. m. passenger
rain did not reach the city till in the after-
loon. |
The Pacific Express, on the Pittsburgh l. Fort
Wayne Road, which was due here at .. m,. did
ot get in till P. H., having been thrown from
ne track by broken rail q few miles this side
t Fort Wayne.
Yesterday morning the Cincinnati Express, Of
he hankakee Line, was thrown from the track
; broken rail, at Richton, q small station
wenty-nine miles out from Chicago, on the Iii
ois Central Road The engine vas ditched and
he engineer somewhat bruised, but further than |
hat no one was seriously injured. Fortunately.
train, q few miles in advance, was reached bya
espatch,. and, returning to the capsizcd train.
rought its half-frozen passengers into the city.
My an hour later than they we're due. It was'
oweyer, late yesterday evening before the track
'as clear and in consequence all the trains Of