Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-10-30
The SUDDEN DEATH
or GEORGE N. PULLMAN
Died Suddenly in His Bed This
Morning at His Home in
Chicago.
WAS APPARENTLY IN GOOD HEALTH
Called Ills Servant ut f:3O aud Said
lie felt Uncomfortable,
Quickly Grew Worse
and Died.

nan died suddenly OF heart disease 1t
! this morning. Death occurred nj his,
magnificent residence, Prairie avenue
and Eighteenth streets. He was found
dead in bed. Pullman retired last
night at his usual early hour apparent
~ iu ordinary health with TO ndica'
ton Of a demise, or, indeed, any pre-
monition Of illness.
Mrs. Pullman WAS absent in New
York. She was at once infoImed ami
tool a train for Chicago. In the eN-
element attending the sudden pass
ing OF the palace car magnate, no word
sent TO the officers in charge of the
immense works which bear his name
and thousands of employees went to
work as usual. Nothing was known OF
the shadow that had fallen on the Owl
tin the newspaper men arrived and be-
gan 90 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 uh-
comfortable feeling the last three or
four days during the recent hot spell.
He awoke at 4:30 this morning ana
called his body servant and spoke OF
feeling uncomfortable. The family
physician. DR.. Billings, was sent Tor az
once. Pullman grew rapidly worse
and died before the physician arrived.
Statement 10y It%unnelis.
The following statement in refer.
| encc to Pullman's death was prepared
| for the Associated Press by John ;.
| Rnnells. chief counsel OF the Pull-
mar company:
Mr.. Pullman died at , o'clock TINS
morning Of angina pectoris. Inc eN-
treme heat OF last week. together WIN
perhaps more than the usual eNertlon
in showing come friends about Pull
man. caused him a feeling of debility.
about which ne spoke to one or TWO
/ friends. but which he did not regard
as serious. He told n 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
dav night: that ne bad some little diff
ficulty i'm breathing. but felt better.
and a day or two would put him all
right. lie indeed. was 50 well that he
intended 10 leave for New York Thurs
day evening. Death came very quick
Is. Vt : o'clock in the morning some
friends who were staying al the house
heard a noise in the as If he
wished 10 call some one. They went
10 his room Immediately and saw him
standing up. evidently in great pain.
One of them went To the phone 10 cali
n physician, Dir. Billings. Atfhe same
time he himself attempted TO walk IN
the OUNCE. but before he reached II he
reuuired the assistance OF "a Trend ~
get there. He then became uncon-
sriguS. In the meantime DIR. Billings
arrived AT the house and applied rcsto-
r~ati>c-, but without avail. and puh-
man quietly passed away Wt'ho"' re-
gaining consciousness.
George Mortimer Pullman. founder ans
president of the Pullman Palace Car com
pany. Chicago, Ill. born in Brockton
1891. owes his success to "A daring and or
iRinal idea carried into effect with the
confidence. energy and settled t~cnacity o.
purpose. for which he has always been
famous. with "A Common school edu a
ton. MIR. Pullman went into It country
store. in lS45. and In 1888 removed 10 Al
bion. ". Y. whore Re learned cabinet
making with a brother. and. in contracts
and the moving of warehouses and other
buildings, out Of the way "a the charged
Eric canal. made "a little money. In 1853
he settled i'm Chicago. during the Tcr' Cd
when the Whole city was tong lifted rod
rv to a higher level. and gained parhaps
$4,000 by raising the Mattlson mouse anu
various blocks of buildings. and the level
of certain streets under contract.
II was 1853 that the attention Of Mr. Pill-
man was nrst drawn ~ t;are!!nS ~ on
Ectween Buffalo and WestSeld, TO the un-
comfortable sleeping oars or That day,
than 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 IA PARTNER OF MI.
Field in the operation OF sleeping cars on
the Chicago and Alton and the old Galena
railroads.: but so little did he esteem tn
prospects of the business at that period.
that during the Pixies Peak eNcltene nt,
he went out to the Rocky mountains for a
Haar or two. Railroad travel had been in
~ierrupted during the early part OF the
civil war. but, subsequently. the move
ment OF troops. ana the tomlng ana gong
OF the volunteers gave IL an enormous tx
mansion. and In 1864 Mr.. Pullman returned
to Illinois and resumed the sleeping car
business. IL was he who frst conceived
the happS thought that, in order to render
nipht travel on the railroads of the Tn tel
States popular will all classes OF people.
the sleeping car must be made comfort
bile and complete In it's accommodations.
handsome in appearance. and suitable for
occupancy both day and night. lie tested
his idea with the courage OF a pioneer
ana an apostle. and made his equation
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 ear. the Pioneer. OF eNtraor-
dinary strength and size. magnihcently
furnished and beautifully decorated by
the artist who had adorned the recently
constructed house OF samuel J. Tiiden;
Sleeping cars had previously cost A.0ol
and s. coo each. The Pioneer cost SIS. coo.
and was so large that IL was necessary To
saw OF the platforms before II could pass.
The next car cost $24. co.,. Both took the
travelling public of America by storm and
.Sre The topic OF atn,.-.aS sonani.nt ii eN-
cry part OF the country. They 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-
tcrprise OF great value 10 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 $50. O00, 600. Shops were
established i'm Chicago, and later in ST.
Louis, Detroit. Elnira and Wilmington.
A few years ago the magnitude of the
manufacturing fac.lit'e s. and the own of
Pullman was created, fourteen miles from
Chicago. on n tract of 1903 acres of lam
bought for the purpose. Upon "A previous
ly dreary prairie. great shops and a beau
tiful town of l2,Gm inhabitants have been
created at an expense of about $500. uoo.
with churches, shaded avenues. a public
library. Il theater, exceedingly attractive
houses. and all the equipment OF a whole
some and complete modern town. This
town is Justly the pride OF 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. munihcence and in
terest I'm his employees. As for the Pull
man Palace Car company its operations
continue TO increase year by year. and II
now employs 1900 people, with q pay no !
OF s., coo a year. and operates about 3,00
cars upon l2j.00 miles OF railroad lines.
The longest unbroken run OF any OF It's
cars Is from Boston TO Los Angeles, 4,22
miles.
Mr.. Pullman has always been a litera
man. and he gave $50. 900 to the new art
museum In Jackson park. aud 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. lsl2.