The evening world., 1894-07-13

Mr. Pullman Is a :. Eat man for bust
ness, SPOKE W another lie ma -
contract for water at -four cents a th'd-
sanu and he charged his wutku.n uN,l.
~ cents II thousand Thr money We pay
az water taN pays the tLI Tor all lh"
water Mr.. Pullman Uses iu his shops
make less ON the water hereaitcr Ills
water contract has recently rNpIrcd ani
Mayor HOPKINS. who once worked Tor
! Pullman and knows every wrong We
suffer, could not compel Pullman to r'-
duce his water taN on Us. 50 liz raised
II ON INN. and he now pays eight cent?
where formerly he paid four stu. at
that Mir, Pullman makes money from
us. We are taxed our 10 cents
SAMPLE PROFITS.
"rhe Duke" sneeringly spoke another.
has Il good profit ON steam and gds.
He charges SO Il thousand Tor the gas
and s. "A month for steam"
Yes, and he charges % cents for every
rail We drive in the house, added am
other.
while you are about it, don forget to
tell about the shutters" laughed Jolly
man with az honest face.
"Oh, yes" began the one reminded,
ne charges a tax of ~ cents " month
ON houses with shutters. shutters are
taxed just the same as water Ca" man
/ didn't want to pay the tax. aud had
them reinoN" the shutters, but they
/ charged her just the same because the
! shutters had hzel on the house"
! And If You break u pane of glass ur
! any one does it for yuu, tn" company
/ won't let you repair it Yourself, but
| they do 1t and charge uuuhlc what We
could have ii done Tor clSuN here. When
/ | moved into my hOus" the front door
would not lock and the company nNcd
! It, and when my rent was paid | found
/ - cents added 70? repairs"
! "ind Mr.. Pullman is 50 religious" in
/ t"rrupted another, that h" buiit one
We call II. because IL is bulit of gr""n
stone. The highest bidder of any de-
nomnation gets tn" church. IN" Pres
hyterians have it now. Thry pay 500 u
month for the church, with eNtra
charges for gas. water and inside shut
tors"
ing" protested. 1T can't hc al the
almighty dollar with him. uujuft as he
Is. Doesn't ne do something Tor his sick
! employees or their widow, and or
| phans""
No POOR IN PULLMAN.
cent" laughed "A man. II win tell You
what he does for his sick employees. An
| old lady ia tn" town started a RELIEF SO
Ciety among IN" working people. You
! know men VIII get SICK and If they ar"
| sick long, no difference how saving they
have been. rent will pile up and want
will come. Besides lh".- are Tt" Labor
-rs Poor fellows! They never -erm
To he able 20 more than keep their heads
above water. Naturally, their pay *
small at all times, and the IT. families are
Always large, SO Wltil !lt kil''SS i'f Elltk
times comes among them they ar" the
first to suffer. 1t was for such as these
the old lady starred tn" relief. TN"
| members in organizing wer" at n LOGS
for a name. so at Inst they decided to
call II tn" Pullman Relief society. MIR.
Pullman heard If it. lIid lie send them
a check? Not he. He sent them an i'm
perative command not TO dare to use the
name Pullman. lie said there wrr" TO
poor in Pullman and no need OF "hHri-
table societies"
NIB. I,, 81 r., Ia.
widows and orphans Of employees? /
viii tell YOU" exclaimed another.
There is woman IN this town whose
husband was killed in tn" WORKS for
get just how now; something fell on
him, | think ii as an elevator. The
widow Dor" the entire expense Of IN
funeral, and. being left without money.
she went to work washing T. keep her
self and her orphaned children. Eul
times are ~ bad for every body that
washngs were done at home, and thu
neighbcrS had To give her food. IIii Mr.
Pullman come forward to help her. al
t. pay her Any damases for ne los %,
house ana tho town limits if she did moi
! pay her rent within given date
PHILANTHROPY AT 6 PER CENT
"In every little thing h" is tine
generous per cent dufe,' said another
When the Pullman Band wanted t,
buy uniforms they went to Mr.. Pullman
to ask him to lend them some none!
10 help them out. He had never give.
penny towards the band, although il
; was organized for the benefit and plea
. IRE OF the whole town. The m"I
= thought naturally Mr. Pullman Wuuio
help, but when they asked nm he sac
but one thing: What security can Eol
! give" 30 the men were forced to ur
! nIsh good security, and % accept "A loan
which. thank heaven, il all PAD la *
t together with every bit of the per cent
: interest he charged u", We all knO"
: Mr.. Pullman as 'rhe phi!anthropIai At
. "Tlc Duke Marquis" observed an
other, has drummers To drum You NJ
= If you owe back rent TN" dUmme
knows to a potato what We hnN' 1,
eat and thinks We should IA II "" aI'
| back in oar rent. once in two weeks
: had coming 10 me So in WAGES aud my
, children whom ii would he necessary I,
> keep in food until the n"Nt pay day
2 Two weeks longer ! begged t. lie al
lowed 10 keep half of my wages. bu
} they wouldn't let me ana | was gNrI
. II check FOR - cents. ! asked how
! was 10 live, bat they said they dtdn'
care how. the rent was the first con
, sderatiou."
? Are You sure Mr.. pullman knows al
? these things" ! exclaimed in amaze
5 lnent.
= I'VE know to our sorrow he does
, Committee after committee has gone I,
| him and told him. The only satisfaction
We ever received was 10 De iOll II W.
didn't like things to pas m what W.
$ owed and set out of Pullman. IT.
4 might a. Wei have said 10 90 Ia In
y moon. We Were never able to sc
I enough money to free MS from debt %
p to take H. away.
. "Anotts, great cause Of trouble an
? complaint was tn" bosses. We have t"j
l bosses to every 20 men. III" bosses 3"
5 all the pay and the workman gets noth
n ing. In other shops they average -"
bosses to liu men. We had bosses an
! assistant bosses ana straw bosses an
y hay bosses aud every ol."r kind, the
p received salaries ana the workman 10
u nothing"
y "Srul." interiected ore man, Ell Nj
Pullman had reduced rents - we cuul
- pos Sibly have lived, we would haze IN
+ dured everything else, and this striN
= | would nevr. have been"
E THEIR FEAR OF "SPOTTERS."
; Al this point 20 little child came ,u an
:, called "a man who during The converse
- ton had been nursing handsome
u healthy, good-Ualurri baby TN" man.
/ wife had SHOWN IN" the i"nS" tenant
u have TO sign on renting a house. In
! few moments the man returned to 49,
I that his wife was in great despair. IN
l. mad told her uri-nbIrs what she ha
done, aud they roid her that dpuhtlrs-
. was a pullman sr'it'r ANA mai al
J. | the men wup talked - m" would h" -
a ported ana Discharged. / -" that I %
= men felt very uneasy. Heaven knows
! their troubles wrr" plrnli'ul eH"H+l be