The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-10-28
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN.

Tho Famous Palace Car rlunufac-
.urer and Bnildcr Of H. Model Town
Passes Away.
George NJ. Pullman, the millionaire
paloce car builder, died on the 10Th inst.
at his residence in Chicago.
Mr. Pullman, who WAS in his Goth
year, had not been enjoyinq his usual
good health during the usummer. The
extreme heat of last week greatly ag-
gravated his disease, known to medical
science as angina pectOris, but no seri-
Gus trouble was anticipated. Mr.. Pull
man was at his Office in the Pullman
building daily and dined tho day boforo
with friends at his club. Later in the
evening he remarked having q slight
pain in the back. He retired at his
usual early hour. At o'clock in the
morning members of tho household
were awakened by disturbance ia Mr.
Pullman's chamber,' and Or entering
found him standing in the centre of the
room dazed and apparently suffering
eXcruciating pains in the region of the
heart. Rev. II. Nj. Eaton, who was Wis
iting Mr.. Pullman, called DR.. Frank
Billings, the family physician. Rastu-
ratives were applied, but to 40 purpose,
and at o'clock the millionaire manu-.
facturer and ilanthropist passed
away without speaking and with scarce
ly a struggle.
Mrs. Pullman, who,' with two sons,
George and Sanger, has been on an
eastern tour. WAS wired at once and the
funeral arrangements will be made af
| ter she arrives.
| George NJ. Pullman came to Chicago
! in 1899. He Ut once took prominent
place in business circles. In 1880, owing
to the growing demands Of his manu-
featuring interests, he put into exccu-
tion pet theory for the establishment
of ''model town" Us home for his
car works and the thousands OF ON
plOyeS. a site was selected on the
shores Of Lake Calumet. twelve miles
south Of Chicago. Mr.. Pu Imam devot:
ed his personal attention to the erec-
ton OF the little city and succeeded,
even beyond his own expectations, 10
| making it q model town. Pullman now
has population Of II ,O00.
Mr.. Pullman's wealth is varously es-
timated at from $l2,000,l00 to $50 000,-
600. His financial interests were con
| fined to u few corporations, the bulk of
| the holdings being stock in the Pu.l-
man Palace Car Company, Of which he
owned about One-tifth. Some stock was
also held in Diamond Match and New
| York Biscuit. These securities were
somewhat affected by the news of MIR.
Pullman's death, but the declines were
!quickly recovered.
MIR. Pullman was married in 1867 to
Miss Hattie Sanger, Of Chicago. Four
children are living-George, Sanger,
Harriet and Florence. The latter was
married to Frank 0. Lowden, Of. Chi
cago, two years ago.
Mr.. Pullman like ninety nine out of
every hundred men who have mounted
| n in ptry
| poor. Likewise he suffered the hard
ships of poverty, good moral seasoning
Tor character that was afterwards to
be strong to carry out great undertake
| lnSs. At the time when many of our
young men arc at college MIR. Pullman
was supporting himself. The gentlemen
who have written about Mr.. Pullman
IN the encyclopedias say be began to do
this when he was fourteen. He had no
college training, and while no one would
discount the advantages Of learning, not
q reason can be found in Mr.. Pullman's
career to cause regret that he never
| went to college. Education would not
nave strengthened his will or his char
acter, sharpened his ambition or i'm
proved his heart. He was one of those
men born with a heritage of power
That neither education nor the lack of
1T, Influence nor tho lack of if. can
greatly help or hinder in the long run.
Mr. inlinan was naturally q sIrong
man, hcalthy In both physique and
mind. He had q keen eve for lifc's
economies and his whole character par
look OF the utllitarian ilca. When he
was riding westward one nigh ht the idoa
came TO him that travelling across the
magnificent distances of this country
) could be made vastly more easeful and
luxurious II railroad Gags might be so
aarra2gcd That passengers could com
5 iortably sleep ia them. He did not.
lose the idea, daring as tho venture vas
! ! N pursuing it. Railway travel was then
. ny no means 80 great or so advanced in
y improvements as now. But the idea
u SUCK IN his brain and he tinallv mod. =.
eled The Pioneer" which was the first,
OF the 2,42S magnificent sleeping cars
now wheel in this country with thn
+ Pullman seal on them.
The history Of the company was the
history repeated of every other succo.s.
full enterprise progressing from a small
beginning and gradually broadening
and accumulating and growing until
It's power and extent amaze even its
projectors. 1t was the history of q rns.
olute will working out It's purposes in an
undertaking based on a great human
need.
MIR. Pullman was q man Of remark
able vlgor. lie was as straight as an
Indian at nearly seventy and his face
had the ruddiness and his eye the
brightness OF youth. He retained un.
til the last day Of his life the livest in
terest In the great affairs of his COM
pany. The cX ensive ramitications of
the business were all familiar to him.
ne had an Office in Now York and an
omce In the Pullman building in Chi
cago and divided his time between the
two places.
lie presided at the last annual meet
ing ing OF the Pullman company. Some
meeting slow the extent of the present
operations growing out of Mr.. Pnll.
mans sleeping car idea. Last year the
company's cars earned 81 ,7I3 3iI. or and
1t carried 4,S52,308 passengers. The
amount of wages paid by the Pullman
company last year was 81, 400, 151. IA,
r. no