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reading on payment of the small sum ot twenty-five cents per 

 month or three dollars per year. Quite a large number of the 

 more intelligent classes found it convenient to patronize the library. 

 With it were connected several courses of lectures for the benefit of 

 the employees. But the great majority of the employees remained 

 outside of the direct influence of the librar}'. There was, however, 

 from year to year a slow increase in the number of persons using 

 the library, and man\- 3'oung men and women were materially 

 helped by it. The influence on those who were constant patrons 

 and readers at the library was very noticeable. They were among 

 the better class of employees, were not found with the malcontents and 

 strikers, and were reasonable in the consideration of the relations 

 of employer to employee. A church was built b}- the company 

 where regular services were had. but this, too, became as all 

 churches do when supplied h\ individual power, a monotonous 

 affair. The theatre was more of a success, for here convenient to 

 their labor the people could find the means of an evening's entertain- 

 ment and observe the performance of some of the best talent of the 

 country-. The base-ball grounds and picnic grounds were also of 

 some service to the people. In order to make a moral town, great 

 care was taken to eliminate all baneful influences, such as saloons, 

 gambling houses, and brothels, although it was allowed later to 

 peddle beer on the streets or deliver it in kegs at the 

 houses. The social life of the people, however, was mostly based 

 upon the gossip}' communications of families more intimately 

 acquainted which associated in groups. With all of the symmetry 

 of the town, there Avas not a homogeneous society. And the first 

 universal idea which prevailed in the majoritN' of the minds of the 

 people, and upon which they could all unite, was that the Pullman 

 company had finall}' grown to be a great overbearing corporation 

 without sympathy for the laboring man, and this idea, once 

 thoroughl}' established, could not easily be eradicated. 



An inquiry into the causes of the failure of the plan will show 

 first of all that laborers do not care to have too much done for 

 them, but prefer to be placed in a condition to do for themselves. 

 There are laborers who would prefer to have a poor house sur- 

 rounded by a small yard into which they could allow the pigs, 

 ducks, and the chickens to come and go at will, with poor water 

 and poorer sewerage, for the sake of bare independence, of having 

 the absolute control of the premises for the time being, than to live 

 in a row of brick houses, with lawns in front, well macadamized 

 streets which were kept by the company of whom they rented, and 

 in the management of which they have no voice. Such people 



