The story of the Pullman car . by just twelve—onlytwelve—bouncing factory girls were introduced, whowere going on a party of pleasure to Newport. Makeroom for the ladies! bawled out the gentlemen, jump up on top; plenty of roomthere! Im afraid of the bridge knocking my brainsout, said a passenger. Some made one excuse, and someanother. For my part, I flatly told him that since I hadbelonged to the corps of Silver Grays I had lost my gal-lantry and did not intend to move. The whole twelvewere, however, introduced, and soon made themselves at [13] Digitized by Microsoft® THE
The story of the Pullman car . by just twelve—onlytwelve—bouncing factory girls were introduced, whowere going on a party of pleasure to Newport. Makeroom for the ladies! bawled out the gentlemen, jump up on top; plenty of roomthere! Im afraid of the bridge knocking my brainsout, said a passenger. Some made one excuse, and someanother. For my part, I flatly told him that since I hadbelonged to the corps of Silver Grays I had lost my gal-lantry and did not intend to move. The whole twelvewere, however, introduced, and soon made themselves at [13] Digitized by Microsoft® THE STORY OF THE PULLMAN CAR home, sucking lemons, and eating green apples. . .The rich and the poor, the educated and the ignorant, thepolite and the vulgar, all herd together in this modernimprovement in traveling .... and all this for thesake of doing very uncomfortably in two days whatwould be done delightfully in eight or ten. To follow further the rapid development of therailroad in America would require many Cars and locomotive in use on the Camden & Amboy Rail-road in 1845. The cars were heated by wood stoves, the glass sashwas stationary, and ventilation was possible only from a wooden-panelled window which could be raised a few inches. As the canal building fever had seized the fancy ofthe American public in preceding years, so a similarenthusiasm was instantly kindled in the new rail-road, and railroad travel became immediately themost popular diversion. In a relatively few yearsa web of track carried the smoking locomotive andits rumbling train of cars throughout the , and lacking almost every convenience of the Digitized by Microsoft® BIRTH OF RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION passenger coach of the present day, the early rail-way carriage served fully its new-born function. Tothe latter half of the century was reserved thedevelopment of those refinements which have ren-dered travel safe and comfortable, and the perfectingof those vast organizations
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