Show DEATH CAME T G G1 M PULLMAN Strange But Swift Malady Strikes the Millionaire THE PALACE CAR EARNED HIS FAME Mammoth Fortune Built by a Remarkable Re-markable Man Death Came to H Quickly But I ist Week He Gave t Dinner toad to-ad Officials Appreciable Effect On Chicago Stock Market At Fourteen He Began life a Clerk in a Country Store Hid Wealth Estimated at Forty mi lions Pullman City a Marvel Chicago Oct ID George M Pullman the palace car magnate died at his residence Eighteenth street and nnt Prairie avenue this city at 5 oclock this morning Mr Pullman who was In his 66th year had not been enjoying his usual good health during the summer The extreme heat of last week greatly aggravated ag-gravated his disease known to medical science a angina pectoris But no serious trouble was anticipated Mr Pullman was at his office In the Pull man building daily and dined with his friends at his club Later in the evening even-Ing he remarked having a slight pain in the back He retired at his usual early hour At 4 oclock his household were awakened awak-ened by a disturbance in Mr Pullmans chamber and upon entering found him standing in the corner of the room dazed and apparently suffering excruciating excru-ciating pains in the region of the heart Rev H M Eaton who was visiting Mr Pullman called Dr Frank Billings the family physician Restoratives were applied but to no purpose and at 5 oclock the millionaire and philanthropist philan-thropist passed away without speaking and with scarcely I struggle Mrs Pullman who with her two sonsGeorge and Sanger have been on a eastern tour were wired to at once and no funeral arrangements wil be made until she arrives CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH While seemingly In good health Mr Pullman had been complaining during the last three or four days of the hot spell and of feeling rather uncomfortable uncomfort-able After leaving his office at 5 pin p-in yesterday he remained at his residence resi-dence all evening About 430 oclock he awoke and called his body servant toMS to-MS bedside and snake again of feeling I uncomfortable Finally he requested the family physician Dr Billings D sent for In the meantime hearing through the servants of Mr Pullmans indisposition Rev Dr Charles Eaton of New York an intimate friend of the Pullman family and who was visiting at their home went hurriedly into the Sick mans bed chamber Mr Pullman lapidly grew worse and a second message mes-sage was sent to Dr Billings but before be-fore the doctor could reach the homer home-r Pullman had become unconscious Pulman ha unconscous and he did not rally Mr Pulhnan while in apparently good health recently formerly had some stomach trouble which he attributed attrib-uted largely to tie condition of his eyes His belief was that about all the bodily ills were due to the eyes During Dur-ing the early part of last week he gave the visiting officials of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania railroad a dinner at the Chicago club and was in excellent spirits Death came to Mr Pullman qUickly About E oclock this morning some friends who were staying at his house heard a noise in his room as If he wanted to call some one They went to his room and found him standing up and as i he were in great pain One of them telephoned for Dr Billings At the same time he was assisted to walk to a lounge He then became Unconscious Uncon-scious Meantime Dr Billings had arrived ar-rived at the house and applied restoratives restor-atives but without avail and Mr Pull alves man quietly passed away without Regaining Re-gaining consciousness At the town of Pullman preparations were made to close the big shops and fo the proper observance of Mr Pullmans mans obsequies George Mortimer Pullman was born in Chautauqua county New York on CautauqUa March 3 1831 At 1 he began life asa as-a clerk in a country store later associating asSO-ciating himself with an older brother catng cabinet making business at Albion Al-bion He came to Chicago in 1859 and at first engaged in the business of raisins buildings elevating entire blocks a number of feet to bring ttiem up to new street grades While riding in an oldfashioned sleeping car from Buffalo to Westfleld N Y It occurred to him that there was a field for building compartment sleeping coaches From iSIS to 1S63 he made a Series of experiments on the Chicago Alton and Galena roads From these experiments ex-periments he worked out detailed plans A work sop was rented skilled mechanics me-chanics employed and Mr Pullman threw himself into the task with the ardor of a man who moves from settled set-tled convictions Although without mechanical training himself he personally per-sonally directed the work of others In all the minor details Of putting the Ideas he had originated into material the Pioneer completed form The frt car cm for pleted early in 1S65 immediately took rank as the most perfect railway vehicle hide the world had ever seen This was the beginning of the Pullman system which has grown to the pre ent enormous proportions In 1SSO owing to the growing de mands of his manufacturing Interests he put Into execution a pet theory for the establishment of a model town as a home for his car works and the thousands of employees A site was the shores of lake Calumet selected on te sho lke CaumC 12 miles south of Chicago Mr Pullman Pull-man devoted his personal attention to the erection of the little city and succeeded suc-ceeded even beyond his own expectations expecta-tions in making a model town Pull man now has a population of 11000 11 Pullmans wealth is variously estimated at from 12000000 to 530000 000 His financial interests were confined con-fined to 0 few corporations the bulk of the holdings being stock in the Pullman Palace Car company of which he owned about onehalf Some stock was also held in Diamond Match and New York Biscuit These securities securi-ties were somewhat affected by the news of Mr Pullmans death but quickly recovered Mr Pullman was married in lIST tev Miss Hattie Sage of Chicago FOUE children a living George Sang Harriet and Florence The latter was mare to Frank O Louden of this city two yeare ago |