Geo. M. Pullman Dead

Chicago, Oct. 19.- George M. Pullman, president of the Pullman Palace Car company, died at 5:30 o'clock Tuesday morning at nis home, 1729 Prairie avenue. Death was sudden, and is attributed to heart difficulty. Monday night Mr. Pullman retired at 11 o'clock, after entertaining a party of friends at iiis home. At tfeat time he made no particular complaint regarding his health. T)urirg the past month Mr. Pullman has been ailing, but the trouble was not sufficient to interfere with his business, and Monday he was at his office as usual.. Early Tuesday mornlng a friend, who was stopping with Mr. Pullman Monday uight, heard a slight noise from his host's bedchamber and entered to see Mr. Pullman make his way to a safe, where he feil gasping for breath. Physicians were summoned, but the sick man expired before a doctor could reach his side. His very sudden death comes as a shock to his relatives and friends, and as it became known throughout the city, formed the chief topic of conversation in business circles. Remarkable Business Achievements. George Mortimer Pullman was born March 3, 1S31, in Chatauqua ccunty, N. Y. At 14 he went into a country store, at 17 he left the place to learn the trade of a cabinet maker, and at 22 he took a contract for moving houses, as was made necessary by the widening of the Erie canal. So far there is nothing exciting in his record. But what really lnterests the public is his town and the wonderful business and social system he and his coadjutors have built up there. Pullman is. indeed, a wonderful tcnvn - the greatest town iñ the world owned by ene man or Corporation. All the world knows that, but all the world does not yet know that in Pullman have been solved several questions over which George and Bellamy, Donnelly and the ocialists, are still puzzling themselves- and ua In 1S80 the town of Pullman was founded purely as a business enterprise. to serve the imperative needsof the Pullman Car eompany for increased hop facilities. Today it is a great city by itself. or would be if it had not been absorbed within the ever-enoroaching Hmïts of Chicago. Tet when it was founded Chicago people spoke of it as "away out on Iake Calumet." ard its center is fully fourteen miles from the central part of the city. Iescrition of Pullman. Puliman is epacious and cleanly. There are eight miles of paved streets, bordered fcr the most pait by stately elms ard maples. From the cozy brick station when he leáves the railway the visitor looks down a broad, clean, wel] shaded and well lighted boulevard to the sparkling waters of the lake. There are a hotel, a theater with seats for 1,000 people and a renowned arcade containing postcffice. savlngs bank and public Iibrary, the last, with its 8,000 volumes, being the gift of Mr. Pullman. But more than all, the basis of it all in truth, are the great car works. On the first floor is the great Corliss engine whieh ran the machinery at the centennial exhibit of 1S76, ar.d on the other floors are all the minute devices for putting through their successive stages the many thousand cars turned out yearly by the cempany. It was in 1859 that Mr. Pullman located in Chicago in the business of raising buildings, and on his first night ride I he eonceived the idea of making com ■ fortaMe sleeping cars. All the wora has read of the difficulty he had in inducins raiiroad men to believe the Écheme would pay. That year he induced the Chicago and Alton rcad to let him remodel two of their day coaches and make them sleepers. In ' 1863 he turned out the first regular Pullman car and narr.ed it the "Pioneer." ! His "Pullmans" are now running on 125,0(10 miles of railway. His Work i= i wonderful, and the town of Pullman is ! his monument. Age ToucTioil Hiin T.ightly. G;orge M. Pullman was one of the , style qL men popularly described as a "perfect gentleman." His 66 years of life touched his kindly face Hghtly. He was an extenive tr.aveler in foreign lands and a very pleasant talker. No man ever had a more loyal and unselfish friend. The boy who loved hia mother in Brocton was the husband atid father who worshiped his family in Chicago. Mr. Pullman was a member ! of half a dozen Chicago clubs, a pation of art and music and a "chum" of his neighbors, Philip D. Armour and Marshall Field. The home of the Pullmans is on the lake shore, Prairie avenue and Eighteenth street, the corner of the Iawn toucbing the spot where occurred the Fort Dearborn massacre in the Indian days of Chicago, which Mr. Pullman recently commemorated by a splendid bronze group. The house is of fine Drown stone and one of the most costly in the city, and the family is made up of father and mother, Florence, now Mrs. Lowderi, a beautiful brunette of 26; Harriet, now Mrs. Frar.k Carolan of San Francisco, a duplícate of her mother, aged 24: and George M., Jr., and Sar.ger, twins, aged -1. llrs. Pullman was Harriet Sanger, daughter of J. Y. Sanger of Ottawa, Hls., where she was married to Mr. Pullman in 1S67. She is a very lovt!y woman and, with her children, is largely interested in woi'ks of charity.