GEORGE MORTIMER PULLMAN
1831-1897
The Story of the
Pullman Car
BY
JOSEPH HUSBAND
Author of "America at Work" and "A Year in a Coal-Mine."
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1917
Copyright
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1917
Published May, 1917
W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO
To
George Mortimer Pullman
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Of the many books from which informationwas drawn for the preparationof this volume the author wishes to makeparticular acknowledgment to The ModernRailroad, by Mr. Edward Hungerford, tothe article "Railway Passenger Travel," byMr. Horace Porter, published in Scribner'sMagazine, September, 1888; and to ContemporaryAmerican Biography, as well as to themany newspapers and magazines from whosefiles information and extracts have been freelydrawn.
J. H.
Chicago, April, 1917
CONTENTS
| Chapter | Page | |
| I | The Birth of Railroad Transportation | 1 |
| II | The Evolution of the Sleeping Car | 19 |
| III | The Rise of a Great Industry | 39 |
| IV | The Pullman Car in Europe | 61 |
| V | The Survival of the Fittest | 73 |
| VI | The Town of Pullman | 89 |
| VII | Inventions and Improvements | 99 |
| VIII | How the Cars are Made | 123 |
| IX | The Operation of the Pullman Car | 133 |
| Index | 159 | |