A contemporary writer closes an enthusiastic de-
scription of the town of Pullman with the following
paragraph :

Imagine a perfectly equipped town of 12,000 inhabi-
tants, built out from one central thought to a beautiful

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and harmonious whole. A town that is bordered with
bright beds of flowers and green velvety stretches of
lawn; that is shaded with trees and dotted with parks
and pretty water vistas, and glimpses here and there of
artistic sweeps of landscape gardening; a town where
the homes, even to the most modest, are bright and whole-
some and filled with pure air and light ,'\ a^ 4awnr in-ftl
word, where all that is ugly, and discordant, and demora- I
lizing, is eliminated, and all that inspires to self-respect, \
to thrift and to cleanliness of person and of thought is \|
generously provided./ Imagine all this, and try to picture*^
the empty, sodden morass out of which this beautiful
vision was reared, and you will then have some idea of
the splendid work, in its physical aspects at least, which
the far-reaching plan of Mr. Pullman has wrought.^

^ The Story of Pullman, prepared for distribution at the
World's Fair, 1893.
