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Next day the commission brokers by special permission of the union sold the few thousand head which were privately owned. More Government cattle were shipped to fresh pastures, others turned over to packers for slaughter. A train of Pullman cars was shunted into the yards to house strikebreakers. And 400 scabs, mostly boys from droughty farms eager to earn an honest penny at the risk of a broken pate, watered and fed the cattle, drove them under sheds and viaducts that offered some protection from the blazing sun. In a few days the yards were more than half empty. Thereafter...
...Private car costs: $75 per day Pullman rental; 15 railroad fares, plus surcharge; $3.50 per day for parking. Approximate price of a round-trip private car Manhattan-Seattle junket...
Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific arrived from Omaha in an ordinary Pullman on a pass. So did Lawrence A. Downs of Illinois Central who lives in Chicago. Samuel Thomas Bledsoe of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Hale Holden of Southern Pacific, Leonor Fresnel Loree of Delaware & Hudson, Frederick Ely Williamson of New York Central all left their luxurious "office" cars behind to save money, make a good impression. In the gold and amber club rooms of the Hotel Traymore they, and 61 other railroad presidents and chairmen, sat down behind closed doors to discuss ways & means of extracting more money...
...least 10%. Railroad revenues approximate $4,000,000,000 annually, of which $3,000,000,000 is from freight, $1,000,000,000 from passengers. A 10% freight rate increase would bring in $300,000,000 annually. But the railway executives well knew as they rolled home in Pullman drawing rooms last week, that to add 10% to the freight charges on lightweight commodities for short hauls would only drive even more business into the hands of truck and steamship competitors. Consequently they were planning a graduated increase, not permitting rates of any one commodity to he upped more than...
...what seems new, the West furnished American Airlines' sleepers with many a capacity load. Encouraged by its success, American Airlines last week inaugurated sleeper service on its six-hour New York-Chicago night run. using 160 m.p.h. Curtiss Condors with twelve berths, upper & lower. The same length as Pullman berths but nine inches narrower, the aerial berths are convertible by day into roomy club chairs...