Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — GEORGE M. PULLMAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEORGE M. PULLMAN.

Something of the Donor of the Fort Dearborn Massacre Statue. George M. Pullman, who recently unveiled the Ane monument he has erected upon the spot of the Fort Dearborn massacre, is one of the most public-spirited as well as one of the richest citizens of Chicago. You don’t see his name in the list of chairmen of reform meetings and World’s Fair congresses; neither do you hear of him in political circles; but it is doubtful whether there is any other man in the city who Aghts mere vigorously and effectually the cause of good goverment and moral

improvement. When money is needed for works of art or charity, when the political situation appears to require it, Mr.. Pullman is never applied to in vain. How well he knows the proper use of money is shown by his liberality in the establishment and conduct of “Wildwood,” the pretty country house near the town of Pullman, where Chicago working girls are maintained without expense to them during their vacation. He once said: “I don’t want my girls to shine in society. That is all nonsense. But they can have carte blanche for charity.” He is about sixty years of age, a handsome, wellgroomed man in perfect health. It is said that he works harder than any of the thousands of men in his employ. His fortune has been variously estimated. It is probably in the neighborhood of $25,000,000. He lives unostentatiously but in Abe style in a large handsome brownstone house at the northeast corner of Prairie avenue and 18th street.

GEORGE M. PULLMAN.