The story of the Pullman car . Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® THE TOWN OF PULLMAN An interesting personal reminiscence of this famousreal estate operation may be found in FrederickFrancis Cooks Bygone Days in Chicago. Another Pullman scoop was of an extraordinaryreal-estate and manufacturing interest when nego-tiated — the slang to be accepted for once in its propermeaning. In the later seventies, besides other duties, Ihad charge of the real-estate department of the became known that the Pullman Company intended tobuild a manufacturing town somewhere, but whether int

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The story of the Pullman car . Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® THE TOWN OF PULLMAN An interesting personal reminiscence of this famousreal estate operation may be found in FrederickFrancis Cooks Bygone Days in Chicago. Another Pullman scoop was of an extraordinaryreal-estate and manufacturing interest when nego-tiated — the slang to be accepted for once in its propermeaning. In the later seventies, besides other duties, Ihad charge of the real-estate department of the became known that the Pullman Company intended tobuild a manufacturing town somewhere, but whether inthe environs of Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, or otherwestern point, was for the public an open question formany months — and, I dare say, for a time was an unset-tled proposition with the company itself, for St. Louisoffered large inducements in the way of land finally turned the scales in favor of Chicago,according to Mr. Pullmans declaration to me, was themore favorable climatic conditions presented by C

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