The story of the Pullman car . e to the people of theUnited States, a service unequaled in all the study of the scope and ramifications of thePullman operations deserves more than passing com-ment; it is of interest to everyone, for everyone isto some degree a traveler; an actual or a potentialPullman patron. In preceding chapters has beentraced the story of passenger transportation inAmerica; how the first railroads offered communica-tion only between a few closely related cities, andhow later the growth of the railroads brought intodirect communication practically every village andme
The story of the Pullman car . e to the people of theUnited States, a service unequaled in all the study of the scope and ramifications of thePullman operations deserves more than passing com-ment; it is of interest to everyone, for everyone isto some degree a traveler; an actual or a potentialPullman patron. In preceding chapters has beentraced the story of passenger transportation inAmerica; how the first railroads offered communica-tion only between a few closely related cities, andhow later the growth of the railroads brought intodirect communication practically every village andmetropolis throughout the land. Then came thetime when the inadequacy of such complete but dis-connected service struck the imagination of a manwho saw the endless miles of track of countless rail-roads bound together by a supplemental system towhich all railroads contributed and from which theyprofited, and by which, most of all, the public wouldenjoy a service of a scope which could otherwise only[134] Digitized by Microsoft®. Digitized by Microsoft® THE STORY OF THE PULLMAN CAR ment of the mechanical side of service he developedits extension throughout the country, by means ofwhich it might be put into the hands of the greatestnumber of people for their greater has history more completely justified a busi-ness that from its character must be to a certainextent a monopoly. Never has competition morepromptly yielded to unification. It is natural to think of the Pullman Companyas housed in some miraculous manner in the carswhich it operates, as a company which expends itsrestless existence in untiring travel from state tostate. But, as a matter of fact, the vast organiza-tion which makes possible the movement of theseventy-five hundred cars which comprise the presentequipment holds an interest secondary only to theactual operation of the cars themselves. There was a day when the run from Albany toSchenectady was the longest continuous railroadride that a trave
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