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    Pullman
    Pullman
    Pullman
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    Pullman

    By Acie Cargill

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    George Pullman built America’s first industrial town south of Chicago on Lake Calumet. He purchased 4000 acres of natural marshlands and woods and built factories to make sleeping cars for the railroads.

    He also built a model community for the workers to live in. Brick homes with modern conveniences. The more skills the worker had, the better the home he would have.

    Everything worked good for a while, but eventually the workers went on strike because George had to cut their wages without lowering their rents during a severe economic recession America was going through.

    The designs and the planning of all aspects of life attracted worldwide attention. It seemed like a real Utopia. After George died, the town was sold off to individual owners and it still stands today. Much restoration is going on and it has been designated a National Monument by the President Barack Obama administration.
    Most of the original homes are still occupied, but most the actual factory buildings are in ruins or have been demolished. It is still well worth a visit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcie Cargill
    Release dateJul 20, 2015
    ISBN9781311075888
    Pullman
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    Acie Cargill

    Acie Cargill is a poet, a songwriter, and a prose writer. He studied poetry with USA Poet Laureate Mark Strand and Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. He studied novel writing with Thomas Berger, who wrote Little Big Man that Arthur Penn made into a movie with Dustin Hoffman in the lead role. Cargill also studied journalism with instructor Jean Daily. His work is a synthesis of all these styles.He is a member of American Mensa and formerly edited the Mensa Journal of Poetry. He also is a member of the Grammy Association, The US Quill and Scroll Society.Cargill is a vegetarian, a former physician, a musical performer on a variety of instruments, an environmental activist, a lecturer, medical reviewer, a lover, a cannabis user, and a seer.

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      Book preview

      Pullman - Acie Cargill

      Pullman

      Acie Cargill

      Smashwords Edition

      Published By

      Acie Cargill Copyright © 2015

      aciecargill@gmail.com

      http://aciecargill.com

      Formatted - Brenda Van Niekerk

      brenda@triomarketers.com

      Website Design - Brenda Van Niekerk

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      Contents

      Synopsis

      About the Author

      Maps

      1. I Am Pullman

      2. The Pullman Experiment

      3. Lake Calumet Flyway

      4. Lake Calumet Today

      5. Col. James Bowen / Opening the Calumet for George Pullman

      6. I am Calumet / Andrea Stevens

      7. George Pullman’s Dream

      8. Big Steel

      9. The Development of the Sleeping Car

      10. Solon Beman

      11. Pullman Corliss Engine

      12. Coming to Pullman

      13. The Pullman Plan and The Greenstone Church

      14. Hotel Florence / Mike Wagenbach

      15. The Arcade

      16. The Pullman Library / Miss Bertha Stewart Ludlam

      17. Market Hall

      18. The Stables

      19. The Pullman Firehouse

      20. Pullman Plan for Education

      21. Healthcare in Historic Pullman / Dr. John McLean / CFHC

      22. Pullman in Illinois

      23. Pullman Recollection / Marlene Broderick

      24. The Wedding of the Century

      25. To My Beloved Frank / Florence Pullman Lowden

      26. Castle Rest

      27. The Pullman Twins

      28. Pullman Athletic Association and the Social Experiment

      29. The Regatta on Lake Calumet / 1883

      30. The Great Pullman Bicycle Race

      31. The World’s Fair Columbian Exhibition

      32. Asa Philip Randolph / Pullman Porters Union and Museum

      33. Dad Was a Pullman Porter

      34. I Rode Pullman Cars with Pullman Porters / Bill Warrick, CBS

      35. George and Hattie Arrive at Athletic Island

      36. The 1894 Pullman Strike

      37. Young Jennie Curtis / Pullman

      38. Union Maid

      39. The Pullman Massacre

      40. I Ain’t No Puppet

      41. Eugene Debs

      42. Walking on the Picket Line

      43. John Hopkins, Mayor of Chicago

      44. My Husband Works At Pullman

      45. George Pullman's Last Speech

      46. Last Words of George Pullman

      47. George Pullman’s Burial and Will

      48. Gustave Behring / Son or Con?

      49. Robert Todd Lincoln

      50. Labor Day in Pullman

      51. FDR at the Pullman Labor Day Re-enactment

      52. I Attended Pullman Tech / Robert Kelliher

      53. Run, Harry Bergstrom / Pullman Tech

      54. The 1960 Attempt to Condemn Historic Pullman

      55. Mario Avignone / Founder of Pullman Civic Organization

      56. The Historical Pullman Foundation

      57. Mayor of Pullman, Mike Shymanski

      58. Historic Pullman Garden Club and HPF Teas and House Tours

      59. Ed Beyer, Lifelong Resident / I Remember Historic Pullman

      60. The Night the Clock Tower Burned

      61. What About North Pullman?

      62. Poe Classical School

      63. The Three Pullman Murals

      64. Sgt. Albert Dono Ware / RIP

      65. Sherwin Williams

      66. David Doig / Pullman Park Plan

      67. How About a Nature Reserve in Pullman?

      68. Anthony Beale / Alderman of 9th Ward Including Pullman

      69. Harbourside International Golf Course / Lake Calumet

      70. What’s Happening in Pullman / Mark Konkol

      71. Fred Fallin / Pullman Ukulele Master

      72. The Earl of Pullman / Earl Pionke / Landmark Inn

      73. Paul Petraitis / Pullman Historian

      74. Hobos in Pullman

      75. Pullman’s Time has Come / Tom Shepherd

      76. Pullman Cars for Historic Pullman

      77. Pullman Partners / A New National Monument

      78. Mexican Americans of Pullman

      79. President Obama Dedicates Pullman National Monument

      80. Positioning Pullman / Plans for the Future

      Cars

      Interior

      Homes

      Synopsis

      George Pullman built America’s first industrial town south of Chicago on Lake Calumet. He purchased 4000 acres of natural marshlands and woods and built factories to make sleeping cars for the railroads.

      He also built a model community for the workers to live in. Brick homes with modern conveniences. The more skills the worker had, the better the home he would have.

      Everything worked good for a while, but eventually the workers went on strike because George had to cut their wages without lowering their rents during a severe economic recession America was going through.

      The designs and the planning of all aspects of life attracted worldwide attention. It seemed like a real Utopia. After George died, the town was sold off to individual owners and it still stands today. Much restoration is going on and it has been designated a National Monument by the President Barack Obama administration.

      Most of the original homes are still occupied, but most the actual factory buildings are in ruins or have been demolished. It is still well worth a visit.

      About the Author

      Acie Cargill is a poet, a songwriter, and a prose writer. He studied poetry with USA Poet Laureate Mark Strand and Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. He studied novel writing with Thomas Berger, who wrote Little Big Man (that Arthur Penn made into a movie with Dustin Hoffman in the lead role). Cargill also studied journalism with instructor Jean Daily. His work is a synthesis of all these styles.

      He is a member of American Mensa and formerly edited the Mensa Journal of Poetry. He also is a member of the Grammy Association, and The US Quill and Scroll Society.

      Cargill is a vegetarian, a former holistic physician, a musical performer on a variety of instruments, an environmental activist, a lecturer, medical reviewer, a lover, a cannabis user, and a seer.

      Maps

      1. I am Pullman

      I am Pullman

      A unique place

      An inspiration

      An idea, an ideal, a living museum

      I am damaged

      Part of me in ruins

      That is part of my charm

      Experience me

      Many of my jewels are intact

      The past in the present

      I am alive

      And preserved forever

      I am the fruition of imagination

      Efficiency

      Seeds from god

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