The Detroit times., 1913-09-05
EPlJELMAN
|PANY FOR
EN STEELE
operation Win Not Turn Them
out Faster and Increase
Junk Supply
CONTRACTS PROVIDE !
USE OF OLD COACHES
R>i1road Officials Say Only l,5OO
steel Cars Have Been Made
Since 1910

CHICAGO. Sept. 4.-"The statement
OF the Pullman company. that II 10
not supplanting more OF Its oid'lasn'
toned wooden sleeping coaches Win
atoel cars because IL 10 Impossible TO
turn them out any faster, Is prepos-
terous," declared a leading onhcial OF
! western railroad, with headquartere
IN Chicago, today. He refused 70 al
low his name to be used. for publica.
ton, fearing, he said. that his ROAD
might be Disseminated against. by
the Pullman corporation. ~, 49,
1T Il absurd for the Pullman com
many to say that II cannot get enough
steel to manufacture steel cars az
rapidly as 1t desires declared the
railroad man. II know positively mat
the Pullman company cam obtain
within . short time enough steel ITO
build more than 1000 cars. enough 10
replace all the wooden Pullmans now
n operation.
THE real reason~why the Pullman
people are not. supplying. railroads
With steel cars Is because the Pullman
directors will not let them. They
realise that. II they substitute steel
cars for wooden. ones. the old-fash.
toned coaches VIII have to be thrown
on the junk heap at fiat loss. II is
q matter OF dollars and cents with
the Pullman directors and they will
not increase the output OF steel cars
unless they are forced to 1t by the
EUvernmcnt."
The railroad ofYicial who made this
statement to the United Press denied
the truth or the Pullman company's
statement to United Press cores
pendent yesterday that 1000 aiisteel
Ie4rs have been furnished the rail.
reads In the last three years and that
oily 1000 cars now In service are OF
WOOD.
Have Made $500 Steel Coaches.
Sin round numbers the Pullman
eompany has supplied just 1900 sleep
~ 70 the railroads since 1870" he
Dn1d. The other 1900 now in opera
tlon are built entirely of wood. or
have steel underframes and wooden
uppers.
These steel underframe cars. are
nn3lt In such manner that the casual
O1ooFver ID deceived. He thinks he
e riding IN steel car. because the
window siIls and door stills are OF steel
md the sides Of the car are painted
y steel color"
Western railroads, according to this
e4ncial are thoroughly Disguised, at
ne &etion OF the Pullman company In
f3rm1aAlng Its all-steel cars largely tc
The trunk lines In the east or run
ming from New York to Chicago. He
counrmed the statement made yester-
nv BY r. G. Hull, of the Illinois Gen.
ttal road. that the Pullman corpora
t(ou writes into its contracts with the
railroad companies q provision where
~ the Pullman company cannot be
forced to furnish all-steel cars to any
rcod Il competing lines In the same
territory are still using wood.
The effect OF this provision" he
implanted. is to keep almost to the
u1lnimum the output of steel cars at
the Pullman plants Unless one OF
Our competitors goes into the business
of manufacturing its own sleepers, as
several Of the western roads have
done it-is impossible for us to force
The Pullman people to supply us with
nll-steel coaches any faster than they
desire"
General Manager Richmond Dean.
81 the Pullman corporation. remained
inaccessible to newspaper men today.