The story of the Pullman car . g 5P. Oh Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST port their through passengers than in others. Otherroads require an equally great number of sleeping andparlor cars during other months, as for instance thoseroads which carry the winter tourists to the South andSouthwest in winter as opposed to the roads whichfeel the peak of passenger travel in summer whenthe vacationists are headed for the Atlantic coastresorts or the northwestern mountains. Again, thereare special occasions, like great conventions, whenthe railroads touching
The story of the Pullman car . g 5P. Oh Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST port their through passengers than in others. Otherroads require an equally great number of sleeping andparlor cars during other months, as for instance thoseroads which carry the winter tourists to the South andSouthwest in winter as opposed to the roads whichfeel the peak of passenger travel in summer whenthe vacationists are headed for the Atlantic coastresorts or the northwestern mountains. Again, thereare special occasions, like great conventions, whenthe railroads touching the convention city musthave hundreds of sleeping cars above their normalneeds. Few railroads could afford to tie up capital in thecars required for such brief periods of demand; itwould be an economic fallacy to pass the expense ofthe maintenance and constant replacement of suchan equipment on to the public. To meet this situa-tion is the mission of the Pullman Company. Of the numerous sleeping car companies the GatesSleeping Car
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