Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER LVIII. JAY GOULD. His Bibth And Early Education.--Clerk In A Country Store.--He Invents A Mouse Trap.--Becomes A Civil Engineer And Surveis Delaware County.--Writes A Book And Sells It.--Gets A Partnership In A PennSylvania Tannery And Soon Buys His Partner Out.-- He Comes To New York To Sell His Leather, Falls In Love With A Leatheb Merchant's Daughter And Marries Her.--Settles In The Metropolis And Begins To Deal In Railboads.--Buys A Bankrupt Road From His Fatheb-in-law, Reorganizes It And Sells It At A Considerable Profit.--Henceforth He Makes His Money Dealing In Railroads.--His Method Of BuyIng, Reorganizing And Selling Out At A Large Profit.--How He Managed Erie In Connection With Fisk And Drew.--His Operations On Black Friday.-- Checkmated By Commodore Vanderbilt And Obliged To Settle.--He Makes Millions Out Of Wabash And Kansas & Texas.--His Venture In Union Pacific.-- His Construction Companies.--Organization Of AmerIcan Union Telegraph, And His Method Of Absorbing And Getting Control Of Western Union.--The Strike Of The Telegraphers And His Great Encounter With The Knights Of Labor And Trades Unionists.-- Gould's First Yachting Expedition.--An ExceedIngly Humorous Story Of His Early Experience On The Water.--His Status As A Factor In Railroad Management.--His Acquisition Of Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph, &c. IF Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens or Dumas, in the height of the popularity of any of these great writers of fiction, had evolved from his inner consciousness a Jay Gould as the hero of a novel, its readers would have found serious fault with the author for attempting to transcend the rational probability allowed to the latitude of fiction. Few novel readers, in fact, would have patiently submitted...