TAILIEUCHUNG - Great Fortunes from Railroads

The factory owner was the supreme type of that sheer individualism which had burst forth from the restraints of feudalism. He stood alone fighting his commercial contests with persistent personal doggedness. Beneath his occasional benevolence and his religious professions was a wild ardor in the checkmating or bankruptcy of his competitors. These were his enemies; he fought them with every mercantile weapon, and they him; and none gave quarter. Apart from the destructive character of this incessant warfare, dooming many of the combatants, other intervening factors had the tendency of holding back the factory owners' quick progress-- obstacles and drawbacks copiously described in later and more appropriate. | Great Fortunes from Railroads 1 Great Fortunes from Railroads Project Gutenberg s Great Fortunes from Railroads by Gustavus Myers Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission. Please read the legal small print and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg and how to get involved. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers Title Great Fortunes from Railroads Author Gustavus Myers Release Date September 2004 EBook 6495 Yes we are more than one year ahead of schedule This file was first posted on December 22 2002 Edition 10 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREAT FORTUNES FROM RAILROADS Produced by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HISTORY OF THE GREAT AMERICAN FORTUNES BY GUSTAVUS MYERS AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF TAMMANY HALL HISTORY OF PUBLIC FRANCHISES IN NEW YORK CITY ETC. VOL. II GREAT FORTUNES FROM RAILROADS I. THE SEIZURE OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN II. A NECESSARY CONTRAST PART III 2 III. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE IV. THE ONRUSH OF THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE V. THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE INCREASES MANIFOLD VI. THE ENTAILING OF THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE VII. THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE IN THE PRESENT GENERATION VIII. FURTHER ASPECTS OF THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE IX. THE RISE OR THE GOULD FORTUNE X. THE SECOND STAGE OF THE GOULD FORTUNE XI. THE GOULD .

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