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Show Rich Men on tba Wing. ' A prominent railroad official stated the other day that but for the fact that two-thirds of them use passes the men of wealth and prominence in the nation' affairs would be among the best patrons of the roads. ' ' "As it is," he added, "they are the most frequent passengers. Some of them spend as many hours in railroad cars a they do at their homes and journey all the way from twenty to forty thousand miles a year." The registers of all the well known hotels ho-tels reveal the names of men who come here every week or two,.traveling hundreds hun-dreds of mile and thinking little or nothing noth-ing of the trip. , . In fact, Mr. George Pullman has become be-come so popular as a host that many men do a large part of their dictation and correspondence cor-respondence while in his charge and take their secretarie along with them for that purpose. A rapidly growing tendency, too, ia for a man to have bis own car, request the railroad president to "dead head" it over his line and branches, and thus he brings his family and all Ills friend along. When anj express train is behind be-hind time ask the conduotor the reason for the delay, and nine chances out of ten he will answer: "We had to hitch on Mr. So and-So's car. He's making the trip with us." But there are still a great many people who cannot indulge in the luxury of a $20,000 house on wheels, and if you can t put that amount of money into one there is no use sending your order to the works. Philadelphia Press. |