Excerpt from Phil May's Illustrated Annual, 1903-1904: Winter Number They represented much that was good and great in the world, those men who constituted this group of investigators. One man was an American railroad king, 3. Person of profound thought, who might have been almost anything in this world, if his boy hood had not been tainted by the crude bitter knowledge that direct personal poverty brings with it. He had turned his hand and heart to the making of money from infancy, and he had succeeded, but to such a man mere money was not satisfying. When he became vastly rich he knew that he had not won life's battle - knew that ize never would win it all that he had won was a golden sword with which to fight, but the best of his life lay behind him - the energy, the power, the splendid courage and resource of his youth was gone for ever, buried in the Cinders where his golden sword was forged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.