Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-18

To the north of the station, and ranged for
more than half a mile along the track, but
with miniature lakes and other landscape
decorations between the buildings
the rails, is Pullman the factory.
Here are acres and acres of great
buildings, through whose windows pal
ace \ freight cars may be seen in the
various stages of construction or repair,
thanked by acres more filled with hundreds of
other cars waiting their turn at the work
mems hands. There are cars from the far
east and the far west, the plain, primitive
Pullmans with their funny little windows
and few devices for adornment side by side
with gorgeous Pullmans of latest type; and
there, in h secluded corner, unused but NOT
unkonored, is the pioneer Pullman, the one
for whose first journey the potentate of this
town personally solicited passengers twenty
years ago. There are also other great works
d paper car wheel factory, a huge foundry,
and W. steel mills. In the center of the
group Is the famous Corliss engine which so
many millions of Americans saw at the Gem
%tennial, the chief source of power in this me-
chanical marvel. Right behind it is the vast
tower containing a water reservoir and sew
age tank, a landmark for scores Of miles
around.
Unity of design runs through all this group
of factories, and architectural effect was in
no wise neglected by the builders. 1t is no
huddle of gloomy and grimy shops, for there
are lines of beauty in the facade, and the
s~oftness of simple decorations gives charm
and the solidity of corner and center towers
lends something like grandeur to the long
wings. Even the stone wall surrounding the
shops is not the kind of wall with which in
dustrial works are usually protected. This
is an art wall, and the gateways and time
Keepers loGges, with y~ine-coyered posts and
graceful caps, would admirably become an
English country seat. In no feature of this
one-man city, the handiwork of one arehi-
tect, has the value of beauty-its commercial
value, lndeed-been neglected. A funda-
mental idea in the construction of Pullman
was to surround laborers, not Only in their
homes, but in the shops wherein they toll.
with objects of beauty and comfort.
The application of this principle is nowhere
more obvious and admirable than in the
home part of Pullman. The streets are broad.
and there is nc fence-that modern abomina-
ton inherited from a feudal time, when even
neighhe,s were feared, and walls and moats
were the necessities of every householder. In
stead, bits of bright lawn separate the homes
from the walks. Though all of the streets
cross each other at right angles, there is no op-
presslye moiiotony, for the stiff lines are bro
ken here and there by parks, squares OF. the
setting in of a church, school or other public
building.
Tho same effect has been accomplished in
the design of the dwellings. Where a moro
economical builder or a less ingenious arcbi-
tect would have constructed rows of barracks.
In which every house would look lust like
every other house, Pullman displays great
variety in roof, window, chimney and orna-
ment, giving to every dwelling IN the better
and major part of the town q distinct indi-
viduality, the whole yet making its perspective
harmonious and regular. The front walls of
tho houses are ali the same distance from the
street, and the window lines are quite uni.
form. 1t is chiefly in artistic treatment of
the sky line that variety has been given to the
whole and individuality to each.
fuliman has its own water and gas works.
streets are all well paved. There are no
barns, one large brick stable accommodating
all the horses in town. There are baseball
grounds, q gymnasium, bicycle track, rowing
course, etc, with handsome view stands. con-
tanning LOCO or more numbered chairs. Tha
Pullman Athletic association hasa reputation
far and neal. Pnllman's d .ainage system is
well nigh perfect. The iewage is all col
lected in a great basin beneath the water
tower, and thence ~pumped-1,oo O,o 900 gallons
daily-to Pullman farm and garden, three
miles away. In no other city ON either side
of the Atlantic has this method of disposing
of a towns sewage ;een SO SIT ssful as here.
The liquid sewasa is drained = Jnl the garden
into tho lake, but is SO purified by filtration
through the soil that the waters Of the lake
nre Inhabited by fish, and may even be drunk.
Pullman garden this year raised @ crop sufl-
to fill eighty freight cars, some Of which
consumed in thu town, but the bulk being
marketed abroad. A dairy farm supplies
fresh milk and butter to the whole popula-
ton.
There are nearly 1000 workmen ia Pull
man industries, and more than {, 1000 in Pull
car works alone. One-half of ahese
are Foreigners. but they nre for the
mess part skilled artisans and men Of intelli-
gencc, Their wages rank as high, ut least, as
those of workman in similar lines throughout
the country. Men in the hammer shop earn
S450a day, caryers So, decorators S2.5 SO to
$50, stripers and gilders $3.50 to 81, and
laborers s1.25to s1.4o. The average
earnings Of the operatives, laborers included.
Was n little less than 5000 fcs each man dur. I
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