I pursued the idea.

The sleeping-car business, in which I was interested, had gone on increasing so rapidly that it was impossible to obtain cars enough to supply the demand.

This very fact led to the forming of the present Pullman Company.

The Central Transportation Company was simply unable to cover the territory with sufficient rapidity, and Mr.Pullman beginning at the greatest of all railway centers in the world--Chicago--soon rivaled the parent concern.

He had also seen that the Pacific Railroad would be the great sleeping-car line of the world, and I found him working for what I had started after.