Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-10-30
The SUDDEN DEATH
or GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN
Died Suddenly in His Bed This
Morning at His Home in
Chicago.
WAS APPARENTLY IN GOOD HEALTH
Called Ills servant MT i:BO aud Said
lie Ecit Uncomfortable,
Quickly Grew Worse
aud Died.

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man died suddenly of heart disease It
J this morning. Death occurred ut hisl
magnificent residence, Prairie avenue
and Eighteenth streets. He was found
dead in bed. Pullman retired last
night at his usual early hour apparent
~ i'm ordinary health with TO indica-
tion Of a demise, or, indeed, any pre-
monition Of illness.
Mrs. Pullman WAS absent in New
York. She was at ones i%nfoEned ana
took Il train for Chicago. In the eN-
element attending the sudden pass
ing of the palace car magnate, no 4
was sent to the officers in charge of the
works which pear his name
and thousands of employees went 10
work as usual. Nothing was known OF
the shadow that had fallen on the Owl
till the newspaper men arrived and be-
gan 20 inquire as 10 the feeling of the
citizens. Immediately preparations
were made To close the big shops.
While seemingly in general good
health Pullman complained OF an I'M
comfortable feeling the last three or
four days during the recent hot spell.
He ayyoke at 4:30 this morning and
called his body servant and spoke of
feeling uncomfortable. The family
physician. DR.. Billings, was sent for at
once Pullman grew rapidly worse
and died before the physician arrived.
Statement 10y tunnels.
The following statement in refer.
ancc TO Pullman's death was prepared
for the Associated Press by John =.
Runnells. chief counsel of the Pull
ma company:
Mr.. Pullman died at , o'clock this
morning of angina pectoris. The eN-
treme heat OF last week, together with
perhaps more than the usual eNertion
in showing some friends about Pull
man. caused him a feeling Of debility
about which he spoke To one or TWO
friends. but which he did not regard
as serious. He told one Of them yes
terday. who suggested that he was no.
looking quite as well a. usual. that he
had been unable To sleep satisfactorily
the last two nights. particularly sun
day night: that he had some little DIFF
fculty in breathing. but felt better.
and q DAY or two would put him all
right. he indeed. was 50 well that he
intended TO leave for New York I hurs-
day evening. Death came very quick
Iy. At > o'clock in the morning some
friends who were staying N the house
heard q noise in the room as If he
wished TO call some one. They went
10 his room Immediately and saw him
| standing mp. evidently in great pain.
One of them went to the phone 10 call
n physician, DIR. Billings. Atthe same
time he himself attempted TO walk TO
the lounge. bat before he reached il he
required the assistance of "a friend 10
get there. lie then became uncon-
scious. In the meantime DIR. Billings
arrived AT The house and applied resto'
r~,tiVcS, but without avail. and Pull-
man quietly passed away without re-
gaining consciousness.
George Mortimer Pullman. founder and
president OF the Pullman Palace Car com
pany chicago. III. born In BTockton'
1881. owes his success to "A daring and or
iginal idea carried iato effect with the
confidence, energy ana settled ttnaclty o.
purpose. for which he has always been
fa!r.us. With a common school edu a.
tioi.. Mr.. Pullman went into a country
Store, in l645. and in ls4S removed 10 Al
bion. ". Y. whore he learned cabinet
making with a brother. and. In contracts
and the moving OF warehouses and other
buildings, out OF the way "a the enlarged
Erie canal made "A little money. In lj9
he settled in Chicago, during the rcr'od
when the whole city was bc.ng lifted bod-
fy 10 a higher level. and gained perhaps
10000 by raising the Madison house, and
various blocks of buildings. ana the level
81 certain streets under contract
II was 1859 that the attention of ~. pau
man was first drawn, by travelling IN enc
Ectween Buffalo n WestSeld, To the un-
comfortable sleeping cars Of that day.
then consisting of ord nary passenger cars
with three rows of hunks on each side.
After conversations On the subject with
Hon. Benjamin Field OF New York state.
Mr.. Pullman became IL mariner of Mr..
Field ia the operation OF sleeping cars on
the Chicago and Alton and The old Galena
railroads.: but 30 little did lie esteem tn
prospects Of The business at that period,
that. during the Pixies Peak exciten ent.
he went out to the Rocky mountains for a
year or two. Railroad travel had been in
%terrupted during the early part or the
civil war. but. subsequently,. the move
ment Of troops. and the coming and going
of the volunteers gave II an enormous tx
pansion. and i'm 1864 Mr.. Pullman returned
To Illinois and resumed the sleeping car
business. IL was he who first conceived
the happy thought that. in order 10 render
night travel on the railroads OF the Tn tel
states popular with all classes OF people,
the sleeping car must be made comfort
able and complete in It's accommodations.
handsome In appearance. ana suitable for
occupancy both day and night. He tested
his idea with the courage OF a pioneer
and an apostle. and made his reputation
and fortune. Renting a shop and employ
ing a few carpenters. he built, against the
protest and In spite Of the SCOTS of others
"a sleeping car, the Pioneer. of extraor-
binary strength and size. magnihcently
furnished and beautifully decorated by
The artist who had adorned the re-ently
constructed house OF Samuel j. Tilden.
Sleeping cars had previously cost A.00)
and 500 each. The Pioneer cost s1S,Co0.
end was so large that IL was necessary to
saw or the platforms before IL could pass.
The next car cost S2i,COO. Both took the
travelling public of America by storm and
were the topic of admiring comment In ev-
cry part of the country. Thcy initiated
the modern sleeping and PALACE car SER
vice. At one stroke Mr.. Pullman had
made himself the undoubted leader In a
new and attractive species of business en-
terprise of great value to the public.
In 1867 Mr.. Pullman organized the Pull
man Car company, of which he has al
ways been president. Capital originally
81. COO coo, but now $36, 900. 900. Shops were
established in Chicago. and later in ST.
Louis. Detroit. Elmira and Wilmington.
business required a great extension OF
manufacturing fac.lit'es and the town OF
Pullman was created, fourteen miles from
Chicago. OH n tract OF 1000 acres of land
ly dreary prairie, great shops and a beau
tiful town of l2,CO0 inhabitants have been
created at an expense of about $500 900.
with churches. shades avenues. a public
library. a theater, exceedingly attractive
houses, and all the equipment of a whole
some and complete modern town. This
town is justly the pride or It's founder and
builder. and upon il he has expended the
most careful thought and lavish generos-
ity. The famous strike of 1894 lily repaid
George NJ. Pullman's muniiicence and in.
terest I'm his employees. As for the Pull |
man Palace Car company it's operations
continue TO increase year by year. and IL
now employs 1900 pc ople. with n pay rot
OF s.. zoo. 600 a year. and operates about s,00
cars upon 25,000 miles OF railroad lines.
Ihe longest unbroken run OF any of its
cars Is from Boston TO Los Angeles, 4,22
miles.
Mr.. Pullman has always been a litcra
man. and he gave $lt0. 90 to the new art
museum In Jackson park. and presented !
to the city OF Chicago "A bronze group o. |
statuary, which Is stationed near the site
of old Fort Dearborn, and commemorate
the massacre OF the whites by the indians
August IS. isl2.