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[Linda Anderson]

(11-26-2014 07:17 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Thank you, Roger! I somewhat expected such. Robert was a closed book.

(11-26-2014 04:54 PM)HerbS Wrote:  $$$$ was RTL's faith!

On the internet (no sources or further info) I once read that the mostly black Pullman porters were underpaid and ill-treated, but Robert obviously didn't care (while making good money himself). Does anyone know more on this?

Robert Lincoln's home, Hildene, has the Pullman railroad car Sunbeam on display along with an exhibit called "Many Voices" which "...highlights the voices of the Pullman Company, the Gilded Age passengers who traveled in its comfort, and the porters who provided the impeccable service that made travel by Pullman second to none." Hildene is on the Vermont African American Heritage Trail.

http://www.vermontvacation.com/Discover%...itage.aspx

"Pullman was the first company to roll out a new model of “sleeper” railcar: outfitted not just with more- comfortable pull-down berths, but with stained glass, gleaming wood, and thick carpets as well, and a staff of African American porters to tend to passenger needs. The Pullman car would play a historic role in the African American journey; as the largest employer of African Americans, many of them freed slaves and their descendants, it would give rise to the first established black middle class in America...
"At Hildene, a railroad car that once carried passengers across the country now transports visitors back in time to an age of national growth and social change. The Sunbeam exhibit, titled “Many Voices,” offers a timeline narrative of the Pullman porters’ story, along with the rare opportunity to stroll the interior of a restored car—from the plush passenger seating in the front to the spartan porters’ accommodations in the back—and to reflect on a complex legacy that calls to us still today."

http://www.yankeemagazine.com/article/hi...urney-home

Jason Emerson quotes from a Chicago Herald article on the "infamous Pullman Strike and Boycott of 1894." "'I wonder what [Abraham] Lincoln would say if he were still in the flesh and could speak to his son who has been advising Mr. Pullman how to starve his employees into subjection,' the paper quoted one of President Lincoln 'admirers' as saying."

Emerson goes on to say that, "While Abraham Lincoln clearly was a champion of labor, Robert Lincoln was clearly a champion of big business."

http://books.google.com/books?id=tPqgC3R...an&f=false