Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-09-14

Willard few days ago asking an interview, and 1t
was had in his elegant office on Michigan avenue.
Mr.. Pullman stated that his greatest desire was to
add to the well-beng of the travelling public in every
possible way, and that he had said to his chief
builder, 'What can we do about this smoke?'
Whereupon the reply was, ave have ten men to
one woman on our cars on the average; we must
provide what they require, and are shut up by the
conditions of the problem to provide them place
to smoke"
Mr.. Pullman then gave it as his testimony that
of every seven women whom he asked whether or
not smoking was unpleasant to them, six gracefully
answered. ''Not in the least. So he felt that al
most all the men, and a large majority of the
women, were satisfied with matters as they now
stood. He said be had always felt the most
chivalric regard for women; had insisted on en-
ploying them when steutly opposed by many of
his associates; that in the palatlal Pullman build
ing where his office was located, he had thirty at
present employed that of the $500 stockholders
in his company 1000 were women-among them
Jenny june and Clara Louisa Kellogg-and
that he had every motive to consider carefully the
wishes of women. The stock of the company was
now at premium of eighty per cent; they had
never failed to declare their dividends; they were
a successful concern, and he believed had done
not little to give the country higher ideals of
comfort and the possible beauty and convenience
of life thus increasing the aspiration of the peo-
pie. He SAID that money-making had never been
with him prominent consideration, but to render
the facilities of travel more and yet more complete
In this connection he mentioned that the vestibule
train between Chicago and New York, on the Penn
sylvana Railroad, had now the well-stocked library
in rlo wit obs that
ladies could enjoy all these advantage with the to-
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response to the desire for women TO share equally
in the advantages of this peerless train. He spoke
OF Pullman, and the desire he felt to give his work.
ingmen the surroundings of beauty as well as COM
fort, and that when he saw the three thousand
children in the public schools of that town, it re-
joced his heart to think of their advantages.
"And you have no saloons' was remark
mildly interjected at this point.
''No, we have not, but in the Pullman Hotel you
can get q bottle of wine if you desire it," was
the reply, "for | cannot agree with you on pro-
hibition."
Suffice it, that Mr.. Pullman was most consid-
crate from his point of view. He told of gifted
New England lady who sent him poem on her
trip to Mexico, expressing the greatest apprecla-
ton of his cars but wishing that he would give
women larger toilet rooms, and that he was so
struck with her brightness and good-nature, that
he at once set about the desired improvement, and
ii was found in all his cars
"By the way" he said, 'your sex is most in
considerate, think in this regard woman will
shut herself up in the toet-rOom and put her hair
through the utmost elaboration without seeming to
care for the other women hanging to the doorknob
outside"
No delEurrer could be entered to this remark, it
was too utterly true
II have placed waiting maid on the North
Pacific train to help tired mothers and other lady
Travellers" continued Mr.. Pullman, ''and we will
certainly do our best about the smoke but l do
not yet see any immediate way out of it,"
So the large, handsome, genial gentleman bowed
his visitors out, and they remembered as they left
that KinU Humbert of Italy had dubbed him Sir