by Arthur E. Stilwell
Book Description: The Bankers Publishing Compnay, New York, 1910. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, Beige cloth boards with gilt title to cover and spine, Top edge gilt, uncut edges to text block, First Edition, Signed by Author, 1910.
Book Condition: Very Good, corners bumped, covers gently rubbed, light soil to boards, general shelfwear, text blocked tanned, but internally well preserved, slightest hint of tanning to pages otherwise no marks, spine straight, binding intact, boards feel loose, but hinges still intact.
Contents: CONDITIONS - Preface, A Protest, Our Country, The Englishman, Mexican Officials as Confidence Builders, On Which Side of the Fence is the Water?, Where is the Water in the Great Northern? ERRORS - American Wolves, "Grabitis," Are You a Lion or a Zebra?, Our Financial Apaches, REMEDIES - State Contracts, The Corporation Court, Fixed Traffic Rates for Fifteen Years, An American Legion of Honor, Let Us Be Fair! -- "Respectively Dedicated to George W. Westinghouse whom I consider one of the greatest Americans, and to whom the world owes a debt of gratitude for the air brake and other inventions." -- Scarce First Edition, Signed by Author, Collectible.
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About the Author: Born in Rochester, New York, October 21, 1859, Arthur Edward Stilwell, with only a fourth grade education, (due to poor childhood health) formed over forty companies, and was responsible for the laying of 2,300 miles of railway in America, in the 1890's and early 1900's. When twelve, he told his grandfather, Hamblin Stilwell, a builder of the Erie Canal, "I am going West and build a railroad." When only twenty-seven, and married, he quit The Traveler's Insurance Co, where he was in line to become president, and headed west. He considered Kansas City his home, doing much community service there. In Kansas City he organized the Belt Line, and later the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad, now the Kansas City Southern. Since he was so young, he agreed to not be its first president, but he ran it. He was president only from 1897 to 1900. In his retirement I wrote numerous books, poems, plays and hymns.
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