American inventions and inventors . itted in on each side of the car, making it useless except tosleep in. That was the great feature of Mr. Pullmans invention,was the reply. He saw that few railroad companies wouldcare to go to the ex-pense of running carswhich could only beused for sleeping pur-poses. He was famil-iar with the old-fash-ioned, stuffy cars,where men sat in stiff-backed seats and dozedand yawned and waitedfor morning. By put-ting people to sleepthis wide-awake manmade a fortune. Youare sitting on the bednow. But here comes the porter to make up the berths next to us. The ladywi
American inventions and inventors . itted in on each side of the car, making it useless except tosleep in. That was the great feature of Mr. Pullmans invention,was the reply. He saw that few railroad companies wouldcare to go to the ex-pense of running carswhich could only beused for sleeping pur-poses. He was famil-iar with the old-fash-ioned, stuffy cars,where men sat in stiff-backed seats and dozedand yawned and waitedfor morning. By put-ting people to sleepthis wide-awake manmade a fortune. Youare sitting on the bednow. But here comes the porter to make up the berths next to us. The ladywishes to put her little boy to sleep. With much interest Mr. Greenleaf watched the portermake a sleeping room out of a sitting room. In a trice thecushions in the seats and backs were twisted about and laidfrom seat to seat, making a bed. With a jump, the porterstood on the arm of the seat, and turned a knob in the came another bed, a few feet above the first. Fromthis was pulled a triangular board which was placed between. A PULLMAN SLEEPER. 238 AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS. the beds and the next seats. Sheets, blankets, and pillows,which had been shut up in the roof, were soon properlyspread out, and two good beds were the result. Curtainswere found above the upper bed, which, hung upon poles,shut the beds off from the car aisle. Behind these the moth-er undressed her child and put him to bed. Just at this moment a man went through the car cryingFirst call for dinner. Mr. Towne immediately jumpedto his feet and said, Let us go and get good seats. You have forgotten your hat, Henry, said his uncle. I dont need it. Come, hurry, said Henry. Perplexed, the old man followed his nephew throughthree cars to the dining car, where they were soon seatedat a little table, in front of a large window, from whicheverything they passed could be seen. It is not neces-sary to describe the dining room, for it was merely awell-furnished restaurant. The men ordered what theydesired
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