We soon agreed that the Pullman Company should absorb our company, the Central Transportation Company, and by this means Mr.Pullman, instead of being confined to the West, obtained control of the rights on the great Pennsylvania trunk line to the Atlantic seaboard.

This placed his company beyond all possible rivals.
Mr.Pullman was one of the ablest men of affairs I have ever known, and I am indebted to him, among other things, for one story which carried a moral.
Mr.Pullman, like every other man, had his difficulties and disappointments, and did not hit the mark every time.

No one does.
Indeed, I do not know any one but himself who could have surmounted the difficulties surrounding the business of running sleeping-cars in a satisfactory manner and still retained some rights which the railway companies were bound to respect.

Railway companies should, of course, operate their own sleeping-cars.

On one occasion when we were comparing notes he told me that he always found comfort in this story.
An old man in a Western county having suffered from all the ills that flesh is heir to, and a great many more than it usually encounters, and being commiserated by his neighbors, replied: "Yes, my friends, all that you say is true.