The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-10-23

George Mortimer Pullman. founder and
president of the Pullman Palace Car COM
pany, Chicago. Ill, born In Brockton,
ChautauIua county, New York, March ).
1881. yves his success to a daring and or
iginal idea carried into effect with the
confidence, energy and settled !cnacity of
purpose, for which he has always been
famous. With a common school eduea-
store, in 1876. and in 1888 removed to AL
bon. N. V. where he learned cabinet
making with a brother. and, in contracts
and the moving of warehouses and other
buildings. out of the way OF the enlarged
Erie canal. made a little money. In 1853
ne settled i'll Chicago, during the rerod
ily to a higher level. and gained perhaps
$40, eco by raising the Mattison house. and
various blocks of buildings. and the level
of certain streets under contra t.
1t was 1859 that the attention of Mr: Pull
man was first drawn, by travelling N one
between Buffalo and WcstSeld. TO the IN
comfortable sleeping cars of that day.
with three rows of hunks on each side,
After conversations on the subject with
Hon. benjamin Field of New York state,
Mr.. Pullman became a mariner of Mr..
Field in the operation of sleeping cars on
the Chicago and Alton ard the old Galena
railroads; but SO little did he esteem the
prospects OF the business at that period.
he went out to the Rocky mountains for n
year or two. Railroad travel had been in
corrupted during the early part of the
civil war. but. subsequently. the move
ment of troops. and the coming and going
of the volunteers gave 1t an enormous tN-
pansion, and in 1864 Mr.. Pullman returned
business. 1t was he who first conceived
the happy thought that. in order to render
night travel on the railroads of the Tn tel
States popular with all classes of people.
the slceping car must be made comfort
able and complete In its accommodations.
handsome in appearance. and suitable for
occupancy both day and night; He tested
and an apostle. and made his reputation
and fortune. Renting. a shop and employ
ing a few carpenters. ne built, against the
protest and in spite of the SCOTS of Others
IA sleeping car. the Pioneer. of e%Xtraor-
binary strength n size. magnincently
furnished and beautifully decorated by
the artist who had adorned the recently
constructed house of Samuel j. Tildeu.
Sleeping cars had previously cost A,00l
and $1,000 each. The Pioneer cost SIS. COO.
The next car cost s24. COO. Both took the
travelling public of America by storm and
We're the t 9 tn OF a ao1ns eT Tnn,, IN ev,
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
M Loo. co., Se' but now $500 900. shops 'V Wers
established in Chicago. and later in ST.
Louis, Detroit. Fclmira and Wilmington.
A few years ago the magnitude of the
business required q great extension Of
manufacturing facilities. and the town Of
Pullman was created. fourteen miles from
Chicago. on a tract of 1000 acres OF land
bought for the purpose. Upon a previous
ly dreary prairie. great shops and n beau
tiful town of 1000 Inhabitants have been
created at an expense Of about IS 5000. 900,
with churches. shaded avenues, a public
library. q 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 1t he has expended the
most careful Thought and lavish generos-
ity. The famous strike of 1894 lily repaid
George NJ. Pullman's munifcence and in
terest in his employees. AS for the PULL
man Palace Car company its operations
continue to increase year by year, and II
now employs 15.0CO people. with a pay 10 !,
of 81. 800. 900 u year. and operates about Z, OG
cars upon 1885, 900 miles Of railroad lines.
The longest unbroken run of any of its
cars is from Boston 10 Los Angeles, 4,SS22::
miles.
Mr.. Pullman has always been a liberia
man, and he CAV S1C0. 600 TO the new art
museum In Jackson park. md presented
TO the city of Chicago a bronze group o.
statuary, which is stationed near the site
of old Fort Dearborn. and commentaries
the massacre of the whites by the Indians
August Is, 1872.