The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-09
THE PULLMAN AFFECTION.

Wa believe II will be almost universally
conceded. at least IN the South. that tho most
gigantic alllctinn tn which tho travelling
public are subjected is that ST the Pullman
Sleeping Car Company. corporation 80 mar
row, SO arbitrary 50 arasping. does not exist
3roi1 trn faro IF tt1t=t>tti.is - day II II not
necessary. nor would II Va practicable to f"l
low lp our charges with specifications ~
record oven n tithe of the indignities. the
wrongs, the lmpositioua hahitually practical
by tho Pullman company would require q
auintnple edition al the DEMOCRAT, and then
wc should only have begun tho story. AZ We
have already said, however, this l. fat from
necessary. There js not. Wa venture 10 stty,
n man. woman Of child who has travelled IN
IL Pullman car ana who has not ths OF her
grievances cherished mp. Every ono will be-
nbla to apply our remarks TO dozen ex-
pcrienccs of his own and In this way the IL
Illustration Will ha made more varied ani com
prehcnHivc than we could hope To make it
But the salient points in the great case OF
the travelling public against tho Pullman
company can be stated worry conpaotly. and
these are really tho only points with which IL
il feasible to dnal. Perhaps tho most conspic-
yot unyiclding style in which 1t ia mado ~,
and the remnrheess manner in which It is
eNacted. ..".M=
A peculiarly cSasperating feature OF travel
in the Pullman car is tho constant annoy
ances to which people are subjected under tho
stupid cover OF "the rules" There II scarcely
any form VI afrrout which, first and last, tho
average traveller hns not endured In the name
Of those rules Ono would think that this
corporation had sot TO work 20 devise q cole
with rs utter u contempt us possible for the
rights and comforts Of the public. Nobody
has ever seen these mysterious and
awful rules Nobody can guess ever
81 faintly ut their bewildering
approach to accuracy, against coming in con-
tact with them and being unceramoniously
suppressed and snubhed, II not punished out
right, in consequence. The only thing VIC
can feel comparatively sure Of Is that II Is
unsafe to do what seems desirable and inno-
! cent or to ask what seems tolerahly reasona-
| BE and modest. Perhaps Ii the Pullman
company kept UP even decent show OF good
faith with the public, 1T might he possible t.
condone their numhorless small exac-
lions aid expressions. But they DC
not They take your money-they
almost tell you to stand and de
liver and there the contract ends. You may
or not receive the consideration. Ii 1t hap
pens to be convenient to them; IL there Is nc
special advantage to the company involved
In overriding and outraging you; well anc
good-you are graciously permitted to enjoy
what you have paid for. But subject then
to the slightest strain, offer them the smallest
temptation: and then how fares It with the
luckless traveller who has parted with bis
money? How many people, for instance
have bought and paid for q seat or section
from Chicago, or Cincinnati, or Washing
ton to New Orleans, and subsequently had
strangers imposed upon them in order that
the Pullman company may collect day fares
extra? How many people have telegraphed
to the company headquarters for certain
seats or sections, paid for them in advance
and then, when they boarded the train on the
appointed day with the company receipt In
| their pocket, have found the section or seat
Tor which they had paid sold second time
and occupied?
/ These things are said to be covered BY the