The story of the Pullman car . flat regardless of rental with themost modern appliances of water, gas, and plumbing;the establishment of athletic fields; the concentrationof the merchandising of the town under the glassroof of the central arcade building, and the construc-tion of a handsome market house, a fine schoolhouseto accommodate a thousand pupils, a library contain-ing over 8,000 volumes, a savings bank and a largeand artistically decorated theater. The populationof Pullman in January, 1881, counted four February, 1882, there were 2,084 inhabitants, atotal which had increased
The story of the Pullman car . flat regardless of rental with themost modern appliances of water, gas, and plumbing;the establishment of athletic fields; the concentrationof the merchandising of the town under the glassroof of the central arcade building, and the construc-tion of a handsome market house, a fine schoolhouseto accommodate a thousand pupils, a library contain-ing over 8,000 volumes, a savings bank and a largeand artistically decorated theater. The populationof Pullman in January, 1881, counted four February, 1882, there were 2,084 inhabitants, atotal which had increased to 8,203 by September,1884. A contemporary writer closes an enthusiastic de-scription of the town of Pullman with the followingparagraph: Imagine a perfectly equipped town of 12,000 inhabi-tants, built out from one central thought to a beautiful [94] Digitized by Microsoft® f WMJSM *\9> 1 M tauu. *?**. ,V, I R ^b I 1 V __l_4ImlW Jt^ * --^^^^ ... rtl Preparing the steel frame for the upper section of a Pullmansleeping car. Sand blasting the brass trimmings of the car before applying the finish Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® THE TOWN OF PULLMAN and harmonious whole. A town that is bordered withbright beds of flowers and green velvety stretches oflawn; that is shaded with trees and dotted with parksand pretty water vistas, and glimpses here and there ofartistic sweeps of landscape gardening; a town wherethe homes, even to the most modest, are bright and whole-some and filled with pure air and light; a town, in aword, where all that is ugly, and discordant, and demora-lizing, is eliminated, and all that inspires to self-respect,to thrift and to cleanliness of person and of thought isgenerously provided. Imagine all this, and try to picturethe empty, sodden morass out of which this beautifulvision was reared, and you will then have some idea ofthe splendid work, in its physical aspects at least, whichthe far-reaching plan of Mr. Pullman has i The Sto
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