The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-06-01

dent got $4,000 a year instead of $685.
900, and the superintendent $4,000
year."
''The system of bookkeeping in an of
fee like this must be interesting"
''We have $4,000 employees, of whom
5000 or 1900 are mechanics and
mechanical operatives. We serve
100000 of meals over the land,
between the St. Lawrence and
Texas, and every one of these meals
has to have a voucher in this Office.
We have built over 400 cars for the
worlds fair alone, at a cost of $780,
600, and we own of palace cars be-
tween 1900 and 1880, and carried last
year more than 100000 passengers;
our mileage in this country is five
Besides, we are car-builders for any
body, and manufactured $4,000, 900
worth of cars last year. At the town
of Pullman, outside of Chicago, we pay
So, O00, 900 a year in wages. Our savings
bank has over $500,
81 have always been sustained in my
own mind and resources by loving to
create something. First the sleeping
car, then the Pacific railroad train,
and next the dining car, next the vesti-
buled car, now the vestibuled engine
and train. still hold to the belief
that the United States and it's people
will give better return to capital in
any portion of the world than any
other portion of the world they can
venture their capital in. Our English
friends have tried Canada, Australia
and India, supposing that they could
make another United States in some
other portion of the earth, and what
has taken place in Australia is the
economical reply. But we must not
over extend ourselves. A reasonable
Imagination and progressive develop
ment upon safe lines can go together.
This company has paid its quarterly
dividends with regularity from the very
outset, and as dividends and interest
in the general mercantile world have
become smaller our thirty mill
lion dollar capital has appreciated
to double that amount. There
stockholders in this company, and
more than half of them are women.
I have been criticised for carrying too
much of the company in my own head,
but l think you will find that our
bookkeeping is always up to date, and
that every fact in this Office can be laid
hold of by any person almost as quick
1y as if he should ask it from memory.
The worlds fair is remarka BILE piece
- To- +1o os,pso
where lakes have been made within
the inclosure, but we showed the FEAST
bility of all this when we built the
town of Pullman upon thirty-fv hum
dred acres of ground, and took the
bleak prairie and gave il, a water front,
dockage, drainage and utilized its sew
erage. / believe that that town, which
is just as far from the worlds fair as is
the Chicago river, will be worth all the
capital stock Of this company"
.sWhat do you think of the Sunday
question and the fair?'
'The people of Chicago are cosmo-
politan, and each element observes its
Sunday according to it's traditions,
without clashing with any other ele-
ment The park where the worlds
fair stands belongs to the public. They
have had the use Ct it on Sundays here
tofore. It is unreasonable to deprive
them of it, when they can now learn
for the general good and for their own
expansion and improvement the pass
ing lesson of this fair. If they are de-
prived of the use of the fair Aey will
go to some other amusement not SO inn
proving. In this state OF facts, why
should they not see the fair on Sunday,
nobody being compelled to go there
who will be better satisfied going some
where else?' GATH.