THE STORY OF THE
PULLMAN CAR

GEORGE MORTIMER PULLMAN
1831-1897

The Story of the
Pullman Car

BY
JOSEPH HUSBAND

Author of "America at Work" and "A Year in a Coal-Mine."

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1917

Copyright
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1917

Published May, 1917

W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO

To
George Mortimer Pullman

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Of the many books from which information was drawn for the preparation of this volume the author wishes to make particular acknowledgment to The Modern Railroad, by Mr. Edward Hungerford, to the article "Railway Passenger Travel," by Mr. Horace Porter, published in Scribner's Magazine, September, 1888; and to Contemporary American Biography, as well as to the many newspapers and magazines from whose files information and extracts have been freely drawn.

J. H.

Chicago, April, 1917

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS