Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-07

move many buildings back from tho edge of the artificial waterway in order that the necessary additional excavations could be made.
 When young Pullman had finished mov- ing buildings along tho canal, ho had O capital of $5,00O or $6,000. A Chicago lady, who was visiting in Albion told him that the street level of the big western city was about to be raised, and that there had been a good deal of trouble expcri- enced in lifting the heavy buildings. This was late in the f1fties, and Pullman be- took himself at once to Chicago
 His success there was great, but in 1860, the work of elevation having been practically accomplished, he sighed for new fields When the civil war broke out, business prospects looked bad, and hear ing that gold had been discovered at Pike's peak he went thither, where he remained till some time in 1864. Then he returned to Chicago and set about build ing his first sleeping car. Ho was seized with the notion that some time he would do this one night, which he passed in one of the old Woodruff sleeping cars, just be- fore he left Albion. The bunk in which he lay was so uncomfortable that he did not sleep at all, but his active mind de- vised plan for a sleeping car which he now set about putting into concrete form.
 This car was built in shed belonging to tao Chicago and Alton Railway com- pany. Pullman personally supervised its construction, and before it was finished had expended $1s,00 upon it. It was wider and higher than other cars and railroad managers laughed at his expecta- tions that it could be successfully run. There was no way, they said, by which it could be passed over their roads but by moving back the platforms of the stations and raising the bridges. The car had not been finished long when President Lincoln was assassinated, and it was proposed that it be used in the funeral train from Chi cago to Springfield. The managers of the Alton road, who had more faith in the new car than had most other railroad managers, made the necessary changes in their bridges and platforms, and it was run over the line. It was afterward put on regularly and found to be drawing card. Orders for more cars came in quite as rapidly as Pullman wanted to build them, and in 1867 the business had grown so that it was found necessary to organize a stock company
 The growth of the Pullman company has been constant and rapid ever since. Its capitalization, some of it water, is now $3o,0O0 900. It was not until 1876 that the 8, BOO acres of land on which the town of Pullman was built year or two later was purchased. When everything was ready, the erection of the town proceeded rapidly, immense factories, beautiful dwellings, churches and other public buildings rising as if summoned by the wand of an eastern magician from the fiat, half bog prairie. Inside of 12 months after the ground was broken therc were not only handsome and substantial build ings, but broad, well paved streets, per feet sewer system, waterworks and gas pipes, and in this city those employed by the Pullman company were expected to reside. No one could buy home however, and all must observe the Pullman rules. These things no doubt contributed to the dissatisfaction, which became serious when