The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-08
PASSING OF PULLMAN
THE LIFE DREAM OF THE LATE
SLEEPING CAR MAGNATE
SHATTERED
BOWS TO COURTS DECREE

BOWS TO COURTS DECREE
Company VIII Accept the Ruling as
Final and Dispose of Its Interest
Part OF the City of Chicago
Worlsinguen to Have First
Chance to Buy Their Homes.
CHICAGO. Jan. THE dream of
George NJ. Pullman's life has been
shattered. The fenced-in model town
of Pullman on the western shores of
Lake Calumet, in when he gloried, is
to be dismembered and become free
community. The anomaly of a city
within city is at an end. The great
Pullman's Palace Car company has
bowed in submission to the decision of
the supreme court of Illinois.
Deciding to accept defeat gracefully
the board of directors of Pullman's
company have instructed their attor-
neys, Runnells & BURY. to close the
suit. The terms of the decree are now
being prepared. A copy will be sent
to Attorney General Akin Monday, and
as soon as it shall have been approved
by him attorneys in the case of the
People Of the State of Illinois versus
The Pullman Company" will appear be-
fore a judge of the Cook county cir
cult court ard ask that the decree be
entered which will divorce the great
corporation from everything save the
business for which it was Incorporate
ed
Last Saturday was the final day III
which T1afifinr a rlhQQrf oOnl6
have been filed. The mandate of the
supreme court has been made out re-
manding the case for further hearing
to the circuit of Cook county On
technicalities another fight below
might have been made. but the lower
court could not swerve one hairs
breadth from the clearly expressed
language of the supreme court.
MODEL TOWNS END.
Thus will end as feudal institution
the town of Pullman. It's churches
and schools, its hotel. it's Arcade hail.
the market house. the public library.
and 1000 brick residences will be sold
to the highest bidders. The Pullman
Iron and Steel company will be re-
organized. The brick works will pass
from the control of the company.
The streets of Pullman will be given
over to the authorities of the city of
Chicago, and the waterworks also will
pass into the control of the city. Pull
man will cease to be a hedged-in mu-
nicipality. It's property will no longer
figure on the assessors books as 1850
acres with the improvements thereto.
The right of the workers in the car
factories of the Pullman company to
live wherever they please will no long
er be questioned. They will become
as free as the citizens of the great
ia
yet not a part. In the scheme of dis
posing of the vast and multiplied in
terests of the company. that the SUI
preme court has declared must be
abandoned. preference will be given to
the employees to purchase the homes
which they now occupy.
After that the stranger may pur-
chase within the narrow confines that
George NJ. Pullman believed would al
ways remain his greatest monument
a city absolutely under the direction
of the paternal care of the company
that he created The great inventor
and magnate might not so easily have
acquiesced to the decree of the court.
He might have prolonged the strug-
gle to the last judicial ditch, but those
who are now managing the great cor
poration have reasoned that the end
would only be deferred by further
fighting.
ORIGIN OF PROCEEDINGS.
The battle is a triumph for the peo-
pie and is personal triumph to Maui
rice T. Moloney, who as attorney gen.
eral began the quo warranto proceed
ings to GUST the company from it's
unlawful business of owning and man
aging a municipality and conducting
divers and unrelated business inter-
ests. There were many who laughed
at the attorney general when, on Sept.
II, 1894 he filed his famous action in
the circuit court against the richest
corporation in the city of Chicago and
the most powerful corporation in the
state.
Six months later. when Judge Baker,
of the local court sustained the de-
murrers of Pullmans company to the
bill, there were those who sneered at
the attorney general. He believed the
people were with him and, above all,
he believed that the law was with
him, and he took the case to the SUI
---preme court. He argued it on the eve
p Sc the expiration of his term of Office.
For 23-nost two years the supreme
court held the issue under Amusement
and then, on Oct "a last, by a divided
bench, it sustained the former attorney
general. 1t drew sharp line between
what the Pullman company might hold
and do and what it might not hold
ana 90. 1t sustained the law DIS lalu
down in the act Of Incorporation Of the
Pullman company. 1t defined the IAN
guage therein used as meaning just
what it said and not meaning any
thing else 1t restricted the Pullman
company to the metes and bounds
therein stated and the company had
no authority to go outside its incorpo-
rated rights.
Four Judges united in the opinion
Three Judges dissented. The dissenting
judges held out no promise of security
to the Pullman company on questions
of law They simply said: For four
teen years the Pullman company has
been permitted to do these things with
out molestation." 1t was the raising
Of the principle Of the equity of es-
TOPPED, not an affirmation that the
company was within the law.
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