Sunday Washington globe., 1902-03-30
In An Air Ventilator Has a
Sliding Scale.
IS TO 500 Per SHARE
Some Curious Data Concerning This
Five Million Dollar Corporation
Picked UP by GLOBE Scouts on r
Street--Sale of Stock, Like KretOI,
More Desirable Than the Manu-
featured Article.

In the Washington Loan and Trust Build
ing there are handsomely furnished Of
fees occupied by the Pullman Ventilatiug
Company, the head of which is the distin-
guished looking gentleman Charles Louis
Pullman, brother of the late sleeping car
magnate.
The ventilator is a common galvanized
iron box with the alleged properties of
regulating the supply of fresh air with
out draft and expelling the foul air with
out-fans. The company is incorporated
for only five million dollars 1t might
have been fifty millions but five was con
5idered-like the man suing for damages
more reasonable. The ventilator portion
of the business, like the Kretol of fragrant
memory, does not keep pace with the
energy put forth in selling stock and or
ganizing sub-comDanies in the United
States and foreign countries. and it is be-
cause of this fact that the GLOBE has been
attracted by the gigantic concern Of which
Charles Louis Pullman is the whole thing
Several individuals who have been up
against the Pullman Company have taken
us into their confidence. The stock is SIoo
per share, and selling at $50 or any less sum.
Indeed we have been informed that Charles
Louis Pullman gave his dgnifed permis-
sion to a solictoE 10 sell "a low as SIS per
sharel In excuse for this slump il was adj
vauced that every share of stock sold adver-
tised the company, aud that there were
many ways to advertise besides paying 81
per inch to the newspapers.
II has also come straight to the GLOBE
Office that in violation Of the statutes made
and provided solicitors of this company
have invaded the sacred precincts Of the
Capitol and disposed of stock and ventila-
tors at will, and that those whose duty it is
to make arrests for such violation Of law
have been remiss ia doing so for certain
sinister reasons
The ventilator is a good thing in its
place SO is the stock of the Pullman Venti-
lating Company, providing the former has
the wonderful,prOperties described, and that
the latter is worth from FIVE to one hundred
dollars per share, but, as in the Kretol late
lamented affair, murmurngs preceding
something worse are being heard among
some of the stockholders.
There are lady stockholders in the Pull
man Ventilator Company; the Washington
female will purchase stock in any and
every thing it seems, and one of these
female investors is not happy. We have
not seen her recently, not since she was ad
turn it in for cash Perhaps she has done
SO and her grievance has ceased. The
Washington Departments offer a fruitful
held for the exploitation of the ventilator
1t can be manufactured for fifty cents and
every window ought to have one
IN the Treasury, War, State, Navy,
Agricultural, Patent Office, etc, at
the regular standard price. The
commission" could be made highly
satisfactory to the officials ordering in the
ventiators, as the margin between the cost
Of production aud the consumers price is
indeed large, generous and juicy
The GLOBE being in a speculative mood
wonders if this enterprise among the De-
partments has ever suggested itself to
Charles Louis Pullman, or if he has ever
tried the services of some suave, oily and
accomplished agent with "pul2" If not
the tip" here given the GLOBE considers
valuable enough in exchange for a block
of the Pullman stock Meanwhile one of
our young men will make tour Of the gov
erument buildings and count the veuti-
lators already working overtime.