The story of the Pullman car . of people for their greater has history more completely justified a busi-ness that from its character must be to a certainextent a monopoly. Never has competition morepromptly yielded to unification. It is natural to think of the Pullman Companyas housed in some miraculous manner in the carswhich it operates, as a company which expends itsrestless existence in untiring travel from state tostate. But, as a matter of fact, the vast organiza-tion which makes possible the movement of theseventy-five hundred cars which comprise the presentequipment h
The story of the Pullman car . of people for their greater has history more completely justified a busi-ness that from its character must be to a certainextent a monopoly. Never has competition morepromptly yielded to unification. It is natural to think of the Pullman Companyas housed in some miraculous manner in the carswhich it operates, as a company which expends itsrestless existence in untiring travel from state tostate. But, as a matter of fact, the vast organiza-tion which makes possible the movement of theseventy-five hundred cars which comprise the presentequipment holds an interest secondary only to theactual operation of the cars themselves. There was a day when the run from Albany toSchenectady was the longest continuous railroadride that a traveler might take. Today it is possibleto travel in a Pullman car without change fromWashington, D. C, to San Francisco, a distance of3,625 miles, requiring one hundred and eighteenhours, or approximately five days. [136] Digitized by Microsoft®. Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® OPERATING THE PULLMAN CAR But distance is not alone characteristic of Pull-man service; equal attention is given to shorterhauls. From Greensboro to Raleigh, NorthCarolina, for instance, a distance of only eighty-onemiles, Pullman sleeping cars are regularly , as in many other instances, arrangements existwhereby the passengers may retire early in the even-ing while the car is at rest on a siding in the station,and arise at a reasonable hour in the morning. Bysuch service hotel accommodations are practicallyafforded and it becomes possible for the travelers tohave a whole day for pleasure or business at oneplace, spend a night in which a hundred or fivehundred miles are traversed, and arrive withoutfatigue at another place the following morning. The hotel desk corresponds to the ticket office ofthe Pullman Company. Imagine a hotel with260,000 beds and 2,950 office desks, and a totalregistratio
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