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Show Sees Boom in Carlntilding. Two extremes of opinion in transportation transporta-tion quarters regarding the situation arc expressed by N. J. Failing, president of the St. Paul, and Vice President Runnels of the Pullman company. The latter predicts pre-dicts years of maximum production because be-cause lie believes the railroads must buy cars, to which observation the former makes the following retort: "Possibly so If Pullman will trust tho railroads." "I do not know how the railroads will raise the money." Is tho Pullman oftl-cer's oftl-cer's observation, "but they must do so. Money seems lo be getting easier. Pullman Pull-man directors are not pessimistic, or they would not distribute their surplus. Earnings Earn-ings promise to continue good so far ahead that there is no need of much surplus now. Our general manager tells mc wc will likely need 5000 more men at Pullman this year. The sleeping car business may not keep pace with the mechanical department. In fact. It reached Its maximum last year, probably for some time to come." |