The story of the Pullman car . edinto four compartments in each of which three bunkswere built against one side of the car, and in therear of the car were provided a towel, basin, andwater. No bed clothes were furnished and the wearypassengers fully dressed reclined on rough mattresseswith their overcoats or shawls drawn over them,doubtless marveling the while at the fruitfulness ofmodern invention. As time went on other similarcars, with berths arranged in three tiers on one sideof the car, were adopted by various railroads, andoccasional but in no manner fundamental improve-ments were made.
The story of the Pullman car . edinto four compartments in each of which three bunkswere built against one side of the car, and in therear of the car were provided a towel, basin, andwater. No bed clothes were furnished and the wearypassengers fully dressed reclined on rough mattresseswith their overcoats or shawls drawn over them,doubtless marveling the while at the fruitfulness ofmodern invention. As time went on other similarcars, with berths arranged in three tiers on one sideof the car, were adopted by various railroads, andoccasional but in no manner fundamental improve-ments were made. Candles furnished the light, andthe heat was supplied by box stoves burning wood [22] Digitized by Microsoft® EVOLUTION OF THE SLEEPING CAR or sometimes coal. For a number of. years thesemakeshift cars found an appreciative patronage, andtemporarily served the patrons of the road. In the next ten years similar bunk cars wereadopted by other railroads, but improvements werenegligible and their only justification existed in the. Midnight in the old coaches previous to the introduction ofthe Pullman sleeping car. A night journey in those days was some-thing to be dreaded. ability of the passengers to recline at length duringthe long night hours. The innovation of beddingfurnished by the railroad marked a slight progress,but the rough and none too clean sheets and blanketswhich the passengers were permitted to select froma closet in the end of the car, must have failed evenin that day to give satisfaction to the fastidious. [23] Digitized by Microsoft® THE STORY OF THE PULLMAN CAR But in the early fifties these very inconveniencesfired the imagination of a young traveler who hadbought a ticket on a night train between Buffaloand Westfield, and in his alert mind was inspired,as he tossed sleepless in his bunk* the first vision ofa car that would revolutionize the railroad travelof the world and of a system that would present tothe traveling public a mighty organization whosefirst
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