The Mena weekly star., 1897-10-20
PULLMAN DEAD.
The Sleeping Car Magnate Succumbs
 to an Attack of Heart Disease.
SHORT SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
One of Ills Greatest Achievements Was the Creation of an Ideal Town-Facts About the Pullman Palace
 Car Company.

CHICAGO, Oct. 30.-George Nj. Pull man, inventor of the sleeping car which bears his name, president of the Pullman Palace Car company and multi-millionaire, died suddenly at five o'clock this morning of angina pecto- ris. After he left his office at five o'clock yesterday afternoon Mir. Pull man went to his residence and re- mained there all evening. He retired at his usual hour. About 4:30 o'clock this morning he awolSe and called his body servant to his bedside and spoke of feeling uncomfortable. Finally he re- quested that the family physician, Dr. Billings, be sent for. Before the doctor came Mir. Pullman became uncon- scious. When Dr. Billings arrived at the house he applied restoratives but without avail and Mir. Pullman quietly passed away without regaining con- sciousness.
 Mir. PuIiman's Career SIxetched.
 George M Pullman was born In Chautauqua county, N F., in March 1881. lie was one CT ten children, six of whom were boys As boy he was noted for desire to learn and per- sistence in prosecuting to success any under taking. He clerked year for a40 learned the n studied civil engineering and supported his widowed mother at Is; snd many years later. when he had accumulated fortune he built for ler a palatial summer residence called Castle Rest" among the rocks and woods on an island of the St Lawrence.
 Mir. Pullman came to Chicago in 1859 with 6 capital of s6, 000 and at once took contracts for raising buildings. Under his direct supervision massive blocks Of houses were literally lifted up five to seven feet without disturbing the oc- cupants or interfering with the usual routine of business The world had witnessed nothing like it before
 About this time MT. Pullman was attracted to Colorado by the gold discoveries and re- mained there three years in civil engineering. adding largely to his accumuations On his return to Chicago he invented the compara- lively crude original of the present Pullman car The car was improved and the manufac- turing company of which Mir Pullman was president grew until the year of the great strike it's capital stock was s40 coo O00 and 1t carried 3000 men on it's pay roll in the various branches of employment The annual product of it's shops al2 D01 noe to si5 ese t, it's in- come from rentals si, 300, GOO; the amount paid for wages s7.c0O,000 The average wages of men employed, below general officers mana gers and superintendents. were s600 a year About 2.50J Pullman palace cars are in service under contracts, covering i25, 600 miles of rail- road
 
 tion to suffer because of the representations of the original strikers that his methods and the conduct of his town had been harsh and op- pressive and it was also charged that unlike many other multi lllionaires, he had never given much to charity.
 One of Mir. Pullman's greatest achievements was the creation of ideal town as the site of his stupendous manufactory, with ideal heuses for tine worixmen employed He had long believed that pleasant homes with beauti- ful surroundings would be appreciated by worSingmen, and tend to make them con- tented. He decided to test the experiment. For this purpose the Pullman Land associa- tion by George NJ. Pullman, president. bought tract of 5000 acres of prairie land on the shore of Lake Calumet about IS miles from the business center of Chicago. The town Of Pullman Is marvellous in It's complete ness and beauty; in providing the comforts and advantages of city; in the entire avoidance of objectionable features place of residence There is not saloon in tine town. which now has population of more than i2,000. not po- lice officer a constable a justice of the peace, a court or jail Aside from the semi-paternal government by the company, every man gov erns himself It is model community. The Pullman Lanc association leases the houses to employees Of tho factory and others at a noder- ate rental, including water and light. MT. PuiI- man himself started the public library by giv- ing 600 volumes as nucleus Tho books are read by the mechanics and their families The usual aliurements of vice found in q city do not exist in this community Tn the absence of sa- looms men spend their evenings at home.
 Tn iee7 Harriet Sanger, daughter Of J. Y. Sanger of Ottawa Ill., was married to George M. Pullman. There are two daughters, Flor ence and Harriet, besides twin sons, Sanger and George NJ, Jr, now young men