These posts will be numbered and every week highlight the trade of the Pullman porter during the Jazz Age.
The company rules were for all Pullman porters and employees. (The research has been fictionalized in the book Midnight Sleeper)
Trick of the Trade for today.
"Car-Service men are forbidden to carry offensive weapons, either on their persons or in the cars; also from carrying (independent of buffet supplies) bottles of liquor or beer for sale to passengers. Persons known to have habits of dissipation off duty will not be retained in the service."
The company rules were for all Pullman porters and employees.
(The research has been fictionalized in the book Midnight Sleeper)
Trick of the Trade for today.
"Car-Service men are forbidden to carry offensive weapons, either on their persons or in the cars; also from carrying (independent of buffet supplies) bottles of liquor or beer for sale to passengers. Persons known to have habits of dissipation off duty will not be retained in the service."