“God has no use for the man a dry-hole knocks out.”—Daniel Cady.
“His good deeds are so far apart they die of loneliness.”—Charles Collins.
“He’s more kinds of a blamed fool than a whole lunatic asylum.”—David Armstrong.
“Too often the mean man is the man of means.”—Stephen W. Harley.
“If all Christians were like some Christians the church would be a rubbish-heap.”—Rev. Edwin T. Brown.
STANDARD BUILDING, 26 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
XVIII.
THE STANDARD OIL-COMPANY.
Growth of a Great Corporation—Misunderstood and Misrepresented—Improvements in Treating and Transporting Petroleum—Why Many Refineries Collapsed—Real Meaning of the Trust—What a Combination of Brains and Capital has Accomplished—Men Who Built Up a Vast Enterprise that has no Equal in the World.