The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25

best OF libraries, schools, churches,
Gtorcs and markets. and every facility
for rational amuscments are found here.
This new city marks an era I'm the MS
tory OF human labor-an era which car
ries workmen TO a higher level. he
example set by its founder in his demon
stration that capital can prOiitably take
far better care OF labor than it has here
tofore done. cannot but be of incalculablc
benefit TO the whole human race, and
when every stone of these structures
shall have crnmblCd into dust, the Pull
man idea will go down the ages, "down
the ringing grooves of change" as one
of the worlds best thoughts and great
benefactions.
ITS SITUATION.
Pullman is situated upon the west shore
OF Lake Calumet, fourteen miles south
of the Chicago Court House, where the
Pullman interests have about 1900 acres
of land Ii is reached by the Illinois
Central Railway from Chicago Lake
Calumet is three and half miles long
by a mile and half in width, and con-
meets with Lake Michigan by the Calu-
met River. 1t is the intention, eventu-
ally, to make harbor of this lake. The
land upon which the city stands is blue
clay, ninety feet in depth, resting upon
fine rock, and its surface is from nine TO
twenty feet above the lake level.
HISTORICAL
Work was begun upon the town in
May, 1889, and the first family came
here Jan. /. 1851, and il now has popu-
lation of 1000. The present indus
tries here are the Pullman Car Works,
which manufacture cars of every kind,
such as passenger, freight, street, palace
and sleeping ears, and they are the
largest car shops in the world, employ
ing over 1000 operatives. The Allen
Paper Car Wheel Works, the Union
Foundry, the Pullman Iron and Steel
Works, the Standard Knitting Mills. the
Paint Works. the Terra Gotta Works,
the Screw Factory, and the Drop Forge
and Foundry Company's Works, are
other industries now here, and they en-
ploy, with the Car Works, $500 work
men. Other industries are negotiating
60 come to Pullman.
TIE DRAINAGE.
Pullman is the only city of the world
built scientifically and artiStically in
every part, and is exceptional in this
respect. In every other street running
east and west there are brick mains laid
TO Lake Calumet. From the inter
mediate streets as SUBMITS, latcralS are
laid i'm the north and south streets lead
ing to the mains. The mains and latcraS
take the atmospheric water directly into
Lake Calumet The down spouts from
the buildings and the street catch basins
readi carry off these waters. No sew
age goes into these drains, and they are
intended 10 carry nothing but rain
waters.
MIR. GEORGE VI. PULLMAN.
One cannot we'll speak OF this city
without mention of its founder and
builder, though he is SO widely known
that such mention might seem unncces-
sary. We herewith present his portrait
Said Victor Hugo: "Eifty is the old age
of youth, but IL is the youth of age
Though President Pullman has turned
the half-century point i'm the number of
his years, he is in the prime of vigor-
Gus manhood, and is regarded by his
peers as one OF the abcst executive Off
GERS i'm this hemisphere. by nature a
leader of men, he is clear, capable and
so sclf-reliant as To seem imperious 20
those not intimate with him. He han
dies vast interests with apparent ease.
His time is about equally divided be-
tween New York and Chicago, though
mis- residence is in Chicago His new city
ds a favorite enterprise. and one to which
he has given much careful thought. He
Is the typical American executive officer.
AN AGE OF CITIES.
In this age of city building the ques-
ton of the proper sewerage of towns has
become one OF great and growing inn
portance. Twenty-Five per cent. OF the
population Of our country resides in cit
fes having a population of 10000 and
upward. but when we include those who
reside in smaller towns, villages and
b:inlets, we find not less than 40 per
cent. of our population uroan in charac-
ter.
A recent letter from Supt Por .er, of