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...Pullman Officers who "scouted" the Orientals for Pullman Porters have never witnessed the feats of strength performed every day by millions of Chinamen. It is not uncommon to see three or four Chinamen doing work equivalent to a five-ton truck, or to make it plainer, they will pull a load of, from three to six tons uphill and across country...
...travelers snore peacefully, each night, in the sleeping cars of the great company of which he was president-La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens.† Moreover Baron Dalziel was, up to the moment of his death in London last week, chairman of the British Pullman Car Co.-pioneers of such luxury services as the Pullman-Golden Arrow route between London and Paris...
Going to help his brother, John W. Cox, 21, Harvard student, insisted upon riding in the club car of a Boston-to-New York train, although he lacked money for the Pullman fare. The conductor tried to oust him. John W. Cox protested and, according to the conductor, became abusive. John W. Cox was removed from the train and jailed overnight in Pelham...
...regular performance is made up of the pictures. "The Girl in the Pullman" with Marie Prevost, and "Beau Sabreur", starring Gerry Cooper...
...Next morning, after leaving her, he discovers in his pocket the $50 with a scrawl attached: "Just a little gift from a baby girl to a honey boy." But Jake had lost her address. So he finds new women, old drinks; becomes a longshoreman, a third cook on a Pullman, a quiet enjoyer of metropolitan fleshpots. In the end-Negroes, too, like it happy-Jake wanders into the arms of that same warm brown girl...