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  THE STORY OF THE
  PULLMAN CAR


[Illustration: 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_

  [Illustration]

  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




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