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...Tornado v. Train" (TIME, June 8) you say that "in the string of eleven Pullmans there were 119 passengers," etc. The inference is that the one man killed was a Pullman passenger. Such is not the fact. The unfortunate traveler rode in a day coach. Fear-stricken, he jumped through a window; the car a moment later was blown over on him. The Pullman Co. is proud of the fact that last year (1930) we carried 30.800,000 passengers 12,814,000,000 passenger miles (1,183,669,000 vehicle miles) and only one of these passengers was killed...
JAMES KEELEY Vice President The Pullman Co. Chicago...
Permit me to bring to your attention an editorial entitled "In a Pullman," in your magazine issue of May 11 in which you say, after referring to the Pullman porter as the factotum of the car and his trustworthiness: "The necessity for this trustworthiness was evident last week when a Pullman porter went berserk on a Montreal-bound New York Central train...
...seems obvious, after a disinterested examination of the facts involved that if Pullman Conductor Edward English had used a little tact and common sense and dealt with the porter as though he was a human being and not struck him in the face with his fist after questioning him which provoked the fight, the whole unhappy affair could have been avoided. A. PHILIP RANDOLPH...
TIME also reported: "Porter Smith protested that he had been arranging baggage for the woman, that Conductor English had started the fight." Last week, Pullman officials would make no comment on the above points by President Randolph, pending disposal of Porter Smith's case by the Utica grand jury.-ED. Optimist Sirs...