The evening world., 1894-10-01
HOW He DONNED PULLMAN.
William Row Tells Why the American
parlOr Car Is Not Used on
The Continent.
THE EXPERIENCE OF A COURIER.
Told by Man Who Has Travelled in Nearly
Every Section of the Globe, Now
in This City.


Mr. William Row, who Ia temporarily
residing at No. 23l Atlantic avenue,
BROOKLYN. maintains that he is about
the only man that ever got the better
OF George NJ. Pullman. But for
little trick he played on the palace-car
magnate Pullman cars might now be as
plentiful in Europe as they are here.
As a matter of fact. they are very scarce
there. and are confined, according to MIR.
pov % ono Iina In EnyIand and IN "A
r'om' " ohe iiAe ." H's
road that runs between naples ana
Salerno. Italy. But aside from this
ara',, -, dts,ino,,a, NJ, por,,s norson-
ela'ih u uis''he''oh WI w" pc ''A
atty Is interesting 10 Americans, as ne
was for thirty years one of those Eu-
ronaon oouriers thu, figure so exten-
lopeah eouiieis ''a' "s"i
sively In the written travels OF Ameri-
cans abroad. Indeed, he was for brief
'iihe win Marh wail on 'aau UP
which furnished the ideas for "A Tramp
Abroad"
the extensive introduction of the Pull
man car on the Continent" said The for
rer courier in chatting with a World
reporter. 1T happened this way: / was
for some time in the employ of Col.
Mann who yyos tho arst man who had
| contract for placing sleeping cars In
Europe. He handled cars of n company
| 80, -, 49, ,,,o.o,,ooI s,aon,
ing Car Company. In 1874 left his SER
vice and accented employment from Col
we anu aeo,p..u enpio. 49, '., - w.
ovar % from Mno Amer,oa nu oo' ana nut it together
| in ENGLAND Then he made arrange
- Saa,,t"
nieh'S WIN the customs unIeiaiS Vi
| France to exhibit the car in France for
! six months. | worked very hard in get
| ting the car transferred from ship to
some tracks in small town near Calais
| When the work was finished | went to
a hotel with Col. Gerau and, in spite Of
| all l had done for him, he did not have
the Kindness to even arrange for a
lunch int for me; did not IKE 1t, and this
pened to be talking with Col. Mann one
| day, and told him that the great Roth
schild, who was President of the North.
down to make an inspection of the Pull
man car with view of putting 1t on
his road;
"'All right i will, Colonel said i.
II arranged with the depot officials
Mann's cars side by Side with the Pull
| man car l was determined that Mr.
Rothschild should not go away without
seeing both of the cars. AS luck would
| have 1t, the Rothschild party arrived
| early, and the Pullman people were not
on hand. ! had the key to the Pullman
lar, but / had no instructions to take
the party into the car before the ar
rival OF Mr.. Gerau. So said: Gentle
men, while you are waiting won't YOU
step into this car After glancing
through the glass doors at the interior
Of the Pullman car they stepped into
| Col. Mann's boudoir car. 1t had com
partments after the European style and
was very handsomely and luxuriantly
ment cars will always be preferred in
lristocratic Europe so long as the
nigher classes over there so in Tor eX-
ag ne S% cars m shS side are
| "'H'm, we don't need to look further
| said Mr.. ROthschild glanclng around tn
| Doudoir car with pleased smil,
These COMPARTMENTS Will be. much
| more satisfactory to Europeans than
that big omnibus across there. Our
| people would not like that at all. i am
| satisfed with this car and don't care to
walt to look at the other He left, ani
though d few otncr men took a nifty
nile ride in the Pullman car President
Roihschild ordered tie boudoir cars
cars have no footing at all in Europe.
| returned to the employ ment of Col,
Mann. That one little INCIDENT prob
lbly, affected the entire railway system
Of Europe, because II Pullman had gos
footing in France his cars would
| have spread to the other countries"
Mr.. Row has made and spent several
fortunes as courier, He is so com
fortably fixed now at nifty years OF age
that he no longer calls himself courier,
although as a private gentleman" he
does occasionally take party through
Europe. Knowing every nook and
Granny OF the old country, he thought
he would like to explore the new coun-
try. so he spends considerable time here;