Excerpt from The Insurrection of June and July 1894 Growing Out of the Pullman Strike at Chicago, Ill: An Address Delivered Before the National Statistical Association at the Columbian University, Washington, D. C., October 9th, 1894 The town of Pullman was founded in the year 1880 on what was then an Open prairie at a point 14 miles from the City of Chicago. The Pullman Palace Car Company purchased at that point about 500 acres of land, and there erected extensive works for the building of sleeping, parlor and dining-room cars, for its own use, also for the building of cars of every description for railroad compa nies. The Pullman Company also built at the town of Pullman all the houses needed as homes for its employes, and others called there by the needs of such a community. To this day the Company retains the ownership of this en tire property. The streets, parks, sewers, gas works, wa ter works, school houses, library and other public build ings at Pullman were also constructed by the Company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.