| Show 1 I whence our great fortunes when when commodore vanderbilt lipkin iho r buil business ness in 1803 1863 the he ra railroads fh road go of f tho the country had 11 not lit a eme t n recil a d from the tha character in w which h agg they were originally conce conceio iv eathey were improved turnpikes k es chiefly lor for local loca I 1 buil nem rivalry with the canal for the transportation or of heavy articles was hardly thought of TIB shipment fur any great di stancel wits was a matter of no small expense delay and risk in short the present railroad system of i the 11 a country by which dekota ex tier wheat produced nt at in an expense of about thirty cents a bushel instead of about sixty five alvo in ili now naw york for eastern manufactures produced under equally alvaha advantageous age circumstances was yet embryonic jn ili the transformation of local lines into highly organized und and efel clent systems which give the public 0 much h better much lem cost c o A two men were con I 1 cornellus vanderbilt find A brott more than the rest these men man saw I 1 the h e need mid and the possibility or of improvement and thit th now new Cei central itral nud and Peria sylvania srstemil tn trio u Ill matt result Is id well known rate from chicago tu now new york in 1808 1868 were from five to ton times as h high h as ai lit at present and the he service bervice given was in fit every way Infer inferior for to that chilt now flow furnished but bat this in ili Is 18 a 11 comparato comparatively vely trifling matler without 1 the hap transportation thui furnished the world would bo be wit without hont the ma jor part of the rich product now annually pouring from texas ka kansas bissit dakota and the rest of our inland territory the earnings of overy livery man in tho the united states anti and eos eng land have thus been Increase dEven dEve a the eastern farmer has hai been bono bone tiled paradoxical aa m it mr atkinson has hai shown the hut the value of the product of Masai ichu ila otta farms his hag been greatly increased by tho the fact that the farmer no longer hus bus to lu raise his own down cete but ean can devote his hia entire farm to per perishable fruits etu etc which Y brine high were the gains lains fc to the ile graat thus thug organ zed und had lo ili ur mr vanderbilt and his they were ere almost al when compared with the gains or of the ilia public tills this its Is the history of ilia iho vander liila fit fortune the bub substance stance of it is that his organizing and const constructive etia enabled bled him to offer a great creal boon to tho the public and lie he eucce succeeded eded in securing a share of the tha result of his labor labora it much jant ller lionato share than he laborer ordin ettlin anly rec receiver elvei hii reward was based on oil the ilia value or of his sory services leeg and not on ilia his expenses similarly with other branches ol of nu rac lurer find in erchant most pr prompt ld meeting the new economic in ic cou dillons outstripped chini competitors ed and the ilia public put were benefited adte 1 the ilia 0 of f lite ilia les lesi i efficient ett effi lelent clent science month lit |
