. The story of the Pullman car . per night as com-pared with other eastern lines, proved an aggressive com-petitor of those lines, not in spite of the extra charge, butbecause of it, and of the higher order of comfort andbeauty it represented. Then followed a curious reversalof the usual results of competition. Instead of a levellingdown to the cheaper basis on which all opposition wasunited, there was a levelling up to the standard on whichthe Pullman service was planted and on which it stoodout single-handed and alone. Within comparatively a short period all the MichiganCentrals rival lines
. The story of the Pullman car . per night as com-pared with other eastern lines, proved an aggressive com-petitor of those lines, not in spite of the extra charge, butbecause of it, and of the higher order of comfort andbeauty it represented. Then followed a curious reversalof the usual results of competition. Instead of a levellingdown to the cheaper basis on which all opposition wasunited, there was a levelling up to the standard on whichthe Pullman service was planted and on which it stoodout single-handed and alone. Within comparatively a short period all the MichiganCentrals rival lines were forced by sheer pressure fromthe traveling public to withdraw the inferior and cheapercars and meet the superior accommodations and the neces-sarily higher tariff. In other words, the Inspiration ofthat key-note of vigorous ambition for excellence of theproduct Itself, Irrespective of immediate financial returns,which was struck with such emphasis in the building ofthe Pioneer, and which ever since has rung through all [42]. One of the first cars built by George M. Pullman
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