Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-08-09

central thought dominating every
thing, the city came into existence
as a beautiful and harmonious whole.
He achieved great results, no doubt.
Before long the increment Of the value
of the real estate on which Pullman
Is built is expected to amount to as
much as the whole capital Of the Pull
man Company. Every house in Pull
man is fitted up with water and gas
and the latest sanitary arrangements.
Grounds have been laid out for recre-
alton and athletics there is a public
library, school-house and popular saw
ings bank, theatre and a great general
store where the retail distribution Is
carried on under the glass roof Of
beautiful arcade building. 1t is
town bordered with bright beds OF
flowers and stretches of lawns which
in summer time, at least, are green and
yclyety. It has its parks and its
lakes and its pleasant vistas of villas,
and, in short, Pullman is great
achievement Of which not only Chica-
60 bnt America does well to be proud.
1T was not a philanthropic but
business experiment, and none the
worse ON that account. The great
principle Of quid proquo vas out with
undertaking regularity. II every res
idcnt Of Pullman had Gas laid to his
house, he was compelled to pay for it
at the rate of @2.25 per l 900 feet,
although the cost of its manufacture
to the Pullman Company was only 33
cents per 1000 feet. Ample water
supply was given with good pressure
but Of this necessary of life the Pull
man Company was able to extract a
handsome profit. The cityof Chicago
supplied the corporation with water at
I cents per l,O00 gallons, which was
retailed to the Pullmanites at 10 cents
per thousand, making profit large
enough to enable the corporation to
have all it wants for its works for
nothing. Thus did the instinct Of Mr..
Pullman enable his right hand to wash
his left, and thereby created at the
very threshold of Chicago object les
sons as to the commercial profits o.
municipal socialism But between
municipal socialism, representing the
cooperative effort of whole com
munity voluntarily combining for the
purpose Of making the most Of all mo-
nopolies Of service, and the autocratic
exploiting of a whole population Of
city, such as is to be found in Pullman,
there Is a wide gulf fixed.
As a resident Of the model town
wrote ne, Pullman was all very well F.
as am employer, but to live and breathe /.
and have ones being in Pullman is
little bit too much. The residents in
the city, he continued, paid rent to the
Pullman Company, they bought gas Of
the Pullman Company, they walked on
streets owned in fee simple by the Pull
man Company, they paid water tax to
the Pullman Company. Indeed, even
when they bought gingham for their .
wives or sugar for their tables at the .
arcade OF the market house, it seemed .
dealing with the Pullman Company. .
They sent their children to Pullman's |
school. attended Pullnan's church, |
looked at but dared not enter Pull
mans hotel with its private bar, for
that was the limit. Pullman did not .
sell them their grog. They had to go to
the settlement at the railroad crossing /
south of them, to Kensington, called, /.
because ofits low row Of saloons, bum
town. and given over to disorder.
There the moral and spiritual disorder .
of Pullman was emptied, even as the .
physical sewage flowed out ON the Pull F.
man farm a few miles further south,
for the Pullman Company also owned .
the sewerage system, and turned the |
pipes and conducted underground to
enrich the soil of large farm. The .
lives OF the workingmen were bounded /
on all sides by the Pullman Company
Pullman was the horizon in every di-
recticn.
All this provoked reaction, and .
feeling of resentment sprang up in the
model city against the too paternal
despotism Of the city builder, and 50
it came to pass that the citizens by
vote annexed themselves to Chicago,
of which It is now part and parcel.
This was a sore blow and great dis
couragement to Mr. Pullman. Butno
annexation can destroy his control over
the town. It is still the property Of
the corporation ofwhieh he is the chief
and controlling mind.
"But in civic life Of Chicago Mr..