The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-20

During the past month Mr.. Pullman has
been ailing, but the trouble was not
sufficient to interfere with his business,
and Monday he was at his Office as usu
al.
Early Tuesday morning a friend who
was stopping with Mr. Pullman Monday
night. heard a slight noise from his
hosts bedchamber and entered to see
Mr.. Pullman make his way to safe,
where he fell gaspirg for breath. Ply
scians were summoned. but the sick
man expired before a doctor could reach
his side. His very sudden death comes
as a shock to his relatives and friends.
and as it became known throughout the
city, formed the chief topic of conversa-
tion in business circles.
Remarkable Business Achievements.
George Mortimer Pullman was born
March 3, 1891, in Chatauqua county, N.
Y. At Ia he went into a country store,
at II he left the place to learn the trade
Of cabinet maker. and at 22 he tock a
contract for moving houses, as was
made necessary by the widening of the
Erie canal. So far there Is nothing eX-
citing in his record. But what really
interests the public is his town and the
wonderful business and social system
he and his coadjutors have built up
there.
Pullman is indeed. a wonderful town
the greatest town in the world owned
by one man or corporation. All the
world knows that, but all the world
does not yet know that in Pullman have
been solved several questions over which
George and Bellamy, Donnelly and the
socialists, are still puzzling themselves
and us. In 1880 the town of Pullman
was founded purely as a business en-
terprise TO serve the imperative needs of
the Pullman Car company for increased
shop facilities. Today it is great city
by itself, or would be II 1t had not been
absorbed within the ever-encroaching
limits of Chicago. Yet when 1t was
| founded Chicago people spoke of 1t as
away out on Lake Calumet" and It's
center Is fully fourteen miles from the
/ central part Of the city.
Description of Pullman.
Pullman is spacious and cleanly. There
are eight miles of paved streets. bor-
dered for the most part by stately elms
and naples From the cozy brick sta
tion when he leaves the railway the Wis
| itor looks down a broad, clean, well
! shaded and well lighted boulevard to
\ the sparkling waters of the lake. There
are a hotel, a theater with seats for l.
| 900 people and renowned arcade con-
| tanning postUffice. savings bank and
public library, the last, with its 5000
volumes. being the gift Of Mr.. Pullman
| But more than all, the basis Of ii all In
truth, are the great car works. On the
| first floor is the great Corliss engine
which ran the machinery at the centen-
| nial exhibit of 1876. and on the other
floors are all the minute devices for put
ting through their successive stages the
many thousand cars turned out yearly
by the company.
IT was in 1859 that Mr.. Pullman To-
! Gated in Chicago in the business of rails
| ing buildings, ard on his first night ride
he conceived the idea Of making com
Portable sleeping cars. All the worlC
has read Of the difficulty he had in in
| ducing railroad men TO believe th'
scheme would pay That year he in
| duced the Chicago and Alton read e
let him remodel two Of their da,
coaches and make them sleepers. IL
1863 he turned out the first regular Pull
man car and named II the Pioneer.
His "Pullmans" are now running oi
125.O0 miles of railway. His work 4
wonderful, and the town OF Pullman u
his monument.
Age Touched Him Lightly.
George NJ. Pullman was one of th'
style of men popularity described as |
perfect gentleman" His 66 years o
life touched his kindly face lightly. III
was an extensive traveller In fore1gi
lands and a very pleasant talker. NJ
man ever had a more loyal and unset
fish friend. The boy who loved hi
mother In Brocton was the husband AM
father who worshiped his family II
Chicago. Mr. Pullman was membe
| of half a dozen Chicago clubs, a patrol
of art and music and "chum" OF hi
| neighbors, Philip ID. Armour and Mar
| shall Field.
The home of the Pullmans n on tn