Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-18
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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 and
the rails, is Pullman the factory.
Here are acres and acres of great
buildings, through whose windows pal
ace and freight cars may SEA seen in the
various stages of constructor or repair,
thanked by acres more filed 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
Pnllmans with their funny little windows
and few devices for adornment side by side
with gorgeous Pullmans of latest type; and
there, in q secluded corner, unused but not
~unhonored, 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
a paper car wheel factory, a huge foundry,
and two 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 i'll 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 efPecS was in
no wise neglected by the builders. It is no
huddle of gloomy and griny shops, for there
arc lines of beauty in the facade, aud the
softness 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
s:s -; = wa wall, and the gateway anu ttiIne-
keepers lodges, with yine-eovered posts and
graceful caps would admirably become an
English country seat. In no feature of this
one-man city, the handiwork of one archi-
tect, has the value Of beauty-its commercial
value, indeed-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 applicationof this principle is nowhere
more obvious and admirable thar in the
home part of Pullman. The streets are broad,
and there is no fence-that modern abomina-
ton inherited from a feudal time, when even
~neighbors were feared, and walls and meats
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 OPP
pressiye monotony, for the stiff lines are bro
ken here and there by parks, squares or the
setting in Of q church, school or other public
building,
Tho same effect has been accomplished in
the design of the dwellings. Where a more
economical builder or a less ingenious archi-
tect would have constructed rows of barracks,
IN xrshtrl, nN-o,,xy I,1,,-a .~N-Jl ~ - ~
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 a distinct indi-
%viduality, tile whole yet making its perspective
harmonious and regular. The front walls of
the houses are all the same distance from the
street, md the window lines are quite uni
form. It is chiefly in artistic treatment of
the sky line that variety has been given to the
whole and individuality to each.
Pullman has its own water and gas works.
Til streets are all well paved. There are no
barns, one large brick stable eceeGs:seaissttiiniit
oil the horses in town. There are baseball
grounds, a gymnasium, bicycle track, rowing
course, etc, with handsome view stands, con-
tanning 1000 or more numbered chairs. The
Pullman Athletic association has reputation
far and near. Pullman's drainage system is
well nigh perfect. The sewage is all col
lected in a great basin beneath the water
tower, and thence purnped-1,0 00, 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 been SO successful as here.
Th liqaid sewage is drained from the garden
into tho lake, but is so purified by filtration
through the soil that the waters of the lake
nrc inhabited by lish, and may even be drunk.
Pullman garden. this year raised acrop sufi,
Gent to fill eighty freight ears, some Of which
was consumed in tho town, but the bulk being
marketed abroad. A dairy farm supplies
fresh milk and butter to the whole popula.
tion.
There are nearly 1900 workmen in Pull
man industries, and moro than 2,Oogin Pull
mans car works alone. sOne-half OF these
workmen ere foreigners, but they IRE for the
most part skilled artisans and men Of intelli-
genes. Their wages rank as high, at least, as
those of worlnnen in similar lsaA throughout
the country. Men in the hammer shop earn
s4.5oa day, carvers So, decorators So SO 10
$50, stripers and gilaars $3.50 to "a. and
simple laborels SL.25 to S1.40. The average
earnings Of the operatives, laborers included,
was q iftle less tian 5000 for each man dur