BUILDING MODERN STEEL PULLMANS, THE ACME OF COMFORT AND SAFETY 



One of the most striking examples of the improvement of transportation facilities in the 

 march of progress is to be found in the present-day Pullman car, a direct descendant of one 

 of the two parent wooden coaches remodeled into sleeping compartments by a cabinet-maker, 

 George Mortimer Pullman, in 1859. The steel coach is a development of the last few years. 

 It has minimized the number of fatalities consequent to railway accidents and is therefore a 

 notable step forward along the line of economic progress. 



by a mechanical and research engineer of 

 Michigan. 



Would you know the size of the Amer- 

 ican steel industry? Then reflect that 

 even before the great world war broke 

 out, even in the slack and uncertain days 

 of 1914, it employed more people than 

 live in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, 

 and Wyoming together — four States 

 whose aggregate area is more than twice 

 that of all Germany. The capital em- 

 ployed is greater than the national wealth 

 of Switzerland. The Republic of Portu- 

 gal — land, improvements, industrials, 

 everything — is not worth as much by a 

 billion dollars as America's steel products 

 were in the single year 191 J., a year in 

 which a ton of pig iron sold for less than 

 one-third present quotations, and a ton of 

 steel likewise. 



Think of an ore train so long that it 

 would take a fortnight to pass a given 

 point, running at full freight-train speed 

 and never stopping! Think of ore ships 



moving in column formation and stretch- 

 ing from Detroit, Mich., to Erie, Pa. ! 

 Think of a row of blast furnaces reach- 

 ing from New York City to Chester, Pa. ; 

 of a column of rolling mills and pud- 

 dling furnaces reaching from New York 

 to Indianapolis ! Think of a stream of 

 ten tons of liquid iron flowing out as 

 molten pig metal every second of the 

 year ! 



Then you will begin to get a picture of 

 the vastness of the steel industry. It is 

 steel, steel, steel, everywhere and al- 

 ways — steel for guns, steel for shells, 

 steel for ships. Without American steel 

 the German submarine would conquer the 

 oceans, the German war machine would 

 starve our Allies, overrun France, master 

 Russia, and work its own good pleasure 

 upon all the earth. But with American 

 steel that can never be done. The road 

 to victory for autocracy has been closed 

 by the unyielding gate which American 

 industry has put across its path. 



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