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creased steel castings and steel sheeting, they did not agree with my 

 plans and they sent for Max Schneider, chief designer of the Pullman 

 Company, and told him to draw plans for new steel cars. He did. but alsi> 

 left out the heavy steel castings and the sheeting. They spoke to him 

 about this omission, and he spoke to me about it. saying that Deau and 

 Dunbar wanted these things in, which he believed to be entirely unneces- 

 sary. 



"A short while later — I just do not reciill the date — I met Schneider 

 on an interurban Illinois Central train, coming into Chicago, and asked 

 him how he made out with his steel car plans. He said to me : 'I guess 

 those steel castings are needed In the cars, and I don't think the sheet- 

 ing will do any harm. They gave me a block of stock in the Common- 

 wealth Steel Company and the General Railway Supply Company, so I 

 guess we will use these materials in the future.'" 



The General Railway Supply Company was incorporated in 1907 by 

 the aid of two men named XlcClun. who are in the typewriter business 

 on La Salle street. F. L. Wells, a former railway supply man, is presi- 

 dent, and H. V. Morton, former secretary to the general manager of the 

 Pullman Company, is vice-president and general manager. Thomas EUett. 

 the protesting stockholder at the Pullman stockholders' meeting referred 

 to, was formerly employed by this concern. 



In another article on the same subject printed in the Chicago 

 Examiner on Oct. 21 it says: 



Samuel F. Klohs. an engineer, wlto was employed in the Pullman plant 

 for years, the man who designed for the Pullman plant the first steel 



car ever built, sat at a draughtsman's bench in his office and laugheiJ 

 remlniscently at the Pullman scandal. 



"It is funny how these cars get heavier every year and don't carry any 

 more passengers or give any better service," he said. "Of course the 

 added weight of steel, worth three cents a pound, gives stability to the 

 car. Some day some one will build a ear on the square and discover that 

 pig iron is just as good ballast as machine steel. 



"I don't know who ordered the use of more steel in Pullman cars, but 

 I know that it has been done, and that good engineers have ridiculed the- 

 idea." 



H.\RD\voon Ef.cokd does not wish to guarantee the trutlifulness 

 of llie Examiner's interviews or allegations, but it is safe to assume 

 thai they have a foundation in truth. It is further fully believable 

 thp.t on the pretense of building ears that will insure greater safety 

 to the traveling public the Pullman Company, through the in- 

 flueuee of either the steel trust of employes having large personal 

 interests in selling the company large quantities of steel materials, 

 has built and put into general use cars that are not only lamentably 

 extravagant in the building, but that are unduly expensive for rail- 

 roads to haul; and a type that in place of insuring greater safety 

 and comfort to the traveling public, has proved to be not only 

 remarkably unhealthly and uncomfortable, but very I'angerous in the 

 event of accident. 



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The eighteenth annual convention of the National Implement 

 and Vehicle Association went into session Tuesday, Oct. 17, 

 at 10 a. m. at the Congress hotel, Chicago, with a large portion 

 of its membership in attendance. Before the opening it was ap- 

 parent that the fraternal spirit vi'as lieenly alive among the mem- 

 bers, and much enjoyment was manifested at the reunion of the 

 fellow craftsmen and dealers, many of whom had not met for 

 several years. Every possible provision was made for the comfort, 

 convenience and entertainment of the members and visitors, and 

 the management, represented exeeutivelj* by E. W. McCullough, 

 secretary and general manager, did itself great credit in the brisk 

 and affable conduct of the opening session. 



The meeting was called to order bj- the president, Edwin D. 

 Metcalf of Auburn, X. Y. The invocation was offered bj' Eev. 

 James M. Phelps. 



William G. Clyde of Pittsburg, Pa., president of the auxiliary, 

 welcomed the members in a concise and hearty speech which was 

 replete with siige and seasonable observations on existing condi- 



tions in the trade and in the country generally. He said the asso- 

 ciation was meeting under remarkable conditions; that although 

 nature has been generous in dispensing her bounty, business is 

 halting, stocks are low and everyone is striving to bolster up the 

 situation and help business along. He said the association is one 

 of great importance and dignity, and it will aid business men to 

 get the best results from their efforts, but that the affairs of the 

 association should be kept apart from polities; that the agricul- 

 tural implement manufacturers' trade is widespread and should not 

 l;>e influenced by anything akin to legislative trickery or political 

 chicanery. 



Responding, F. E. Myers of Ashland, 0., voiced appreciation of 

 the gracious and hearty welcome. He went back to the beginning 

 of the implement manufacturing industry and described its prog- 

 ress from pioneer days up to its present state of excellence. The 

 perfection of the art was the forerunner of a fine association and 

 an inheritance of great value. 



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