One of the most striking examples of the improvement of transportation facilities in the march of progress is to be found in the present-day Pullman car, a direct descendant of one of the two parent wooden coaches remodeled into sleeping compartments by a cabinet-maker, George Mortimer Pul1man, in 1859. The steel coach is a development of the last few years. It has minimized the number of fatalities consequent to railway accidents and is therefore a notable step forward along the line of economic progress.