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Conductor Kennedy was born in Albion, N. Y., but he never met another native of that countryside, born 27 years before, with whose works he was to become so closely associated?the late George M. Pullman. The smile on his long, gentle face will grow shy if you ask him to tell about all the bishops, actresses, pugilists, governors, bankers and U. S. Presidents (all since Grover Cleveland's first term) that he has conducted and known. Off duty he lives in a small house under old elms at Rochester, N. Y. One son is a plumber; another a Baltimore...
...valet service, ladies' lounge and maid service, shower baths, free stenographer, observation car telephone (until departure), and market and sport reports, travelers now notice that white enamel is replacing nickel on plumbing fixtures, that upper berths are more private and accessible. These features, of course, are to the Pullman Co.'s credit, as is much else about the Century...
...Warner's aptness with a billiard cue is doubtless partly due to his health. Never has he needed a doctor since the hour of his birth. His aptness at taking cues from passengers is unquestionably due to the 38 years he has spent at that major study of all Pullman porters, Human Nature...
...Beaumont, Lake Drain, Alfred Nobel, Point Case, Christopher Wren, Glen Manor, Louis Pasteur, Cyrus Field, Edmund Halley?or any of 76 other names?doing small things for large people and quietly watching them, studying them, children and greybeards, ladies and gentlemen, to size them up in one of two Pullman-porters' categories...
...Pullman passengers may be divided into two parts, the "nervous," the "not nervous."* For the "not nervous" Mr. Warner gives silent thanks and hastens to anticipate the imaginary wants of the "nervous." The shade down a little? Yes, Sir. Magazine from the newsboy? Yess, Madam. Drink of water? Ginger ale? Another pillow? Right away?and the more testy the request, the more cheery the service. That is professional ethics. Invariably, the "nervous" are poor tippers. But Mr. Warner and his peers are nearly certain to make up their average of $1 per capita in tips from the "not nervous...