The Memoirs of an American Citizen

_A poor stenographer--The positive young lady under altered circumstances--Miss Gentles's story--A hard road for tender feet--Social and sentimental--A misunderstanding--Which i...

_The Harringtons--The village magnate--A young hoodlum--On the road to school--The first woman--Disgrace, and a girl's will--An unfortunate coincidence--In trouble again--May lo...

_A family scene--Sarah's ideas--We dine--Carmichael comes in--Visions of empire--Almost persuaded--Common people--The touch of mind and mind--Mr. Dround becomes ill, and we miss...

_The terror of good citizens--Henry Iverson Dround--Righteous indignation--Leaders of industry get together "to protect society"--A disagreeable duty--Selecting the jury--The ma...

Jane Dround smiled again and turned her face from the window of the library, through which could be seen dots of ice and snow sailing out on the blue lake. The years she had bee...

_Mr. Dround's little weakness--An unpleasant occurrence--To the best of one's knowledge--"Kissing goes by favor," and other things--Switch-tracks and rebates--Carmichael talks--...

Mrs. Dround threw back her coat and looked up with a mischievous smile on her face. She was a very handsome woman these days, not a month older than when I saw her first. She ha...

I told them all at the supper table that evening how I was going into wholesale with Henry I. Dround & Co. Slocum nodded approvingly, but before any one could say a word of cong...

It was a raw, blustering September night when I rounded up for the first time at the lake front in Chicago. There was just a strip of waste land, in those days, between the grea...

without his knowing what it meant. I learned later that he came from a good Maine family, and had been to college in the East. And he had it much on his mind to do several thing...

It was that autumn of jubilation after the Spanish War. The morning when I drove through the city to the bankers' office, workmen were putting up a great arch across the avenue...

"I am writing Sarah that after all we cannot dine with you. My husband is restless and feels that we must leave for the West to-night. It was very sweet of Sarah to want us, but...

_I go to see May--A cottage on the West Side--May comes to the door--Pleading--Stiff-necked virtue--A discussion of patriotism--We wash dishes and dispute--Old times--One woman'...

_Romantic folly--The impulse that comes from beyond our sight--I go to seek Mr. Carboner--An unpromising location for a banker--I receive advice and help--Dickie Pierson gets an...

_Hard times--How to make something out of nothing--The problem of finance--Getting help--Cousin Farson--A trip down the coast--Paternal admonition--The beautiful city beside the...

War! That was what was in the air those days. It had muttered on for months, giving our politicians at Washington something to mouth about in their less serious hours. Then came...

_Who was the traitor?--Slocum's logic--We send for our accomplice--One look is enough--The poison of envy--I see the last of an old friend--Slocum points the moral--What people...

Just before we were married, Sarah and I went down to my old home in Jasonville. She was determined that I should make it up with my folks; it hurt her gentle heart to think tha...

_A dinner at the Metropolitan Club--Old friends and enemies--A conservative Senator--Pleasant speeches--A favor for Henry I--I plan a gift for a tried friend--I find that I have...

_The snake lifts its head--My picture gets into the newspaper--The Reverend Mr. Hardman in his church--The opinions of ministers--Mr. Hardman points his finger at me--I reply--A...

Mr. Dround's illness kept him away from business for a mouth or more. He had always been in delicate health, and this worry over the loss of Carmichael and the bad outlook in hi...

_The people's choice--What the legislature of a great state represents--The Strauss lobby--Public opinion, pro and con--An unflattering description of myself--Carboner's confide...

_Elementary lessons in finance--What is a panic?--The snake begins to show signs of life--An injunction of the court--Inquiries--Ed Hostetter knows our man--How to deal with a p...

When it came time to go to Washington to take my seat, my friend Major Frederickson, of the Atlantic and Great Western road, placed his private car at my disposal and made up a...

Slocum had been after the bondholders' protective committee of the London and Chicago Company. There were only a million and a half of bonds out, which, before their smash, coul...

Meantime, for a little entertainment, we had a strike in one of our Indiana plants. At first it didn't make much difference: all the packers had been shutting down here and ther...

Not long after my little deal in pork Carmichael promoted me. Instead of running around the city to look after the markets, I was sent out on the road to the towns that were bui...

_The great fit of dumps--Keeping afloat--Interest on bonds--A sudden financial frost--Strauss shows his hand--I beard the lion in his den--He soars--I give him food for thought-...

There was a greasy bench at one end of number twelve, where I sat myself down, feeling that I had come to the end of things in Chicago mighty quick. A measly gas-jet above the d...

"Do you see that big, fat fellow talking with Mr. Joyce?" the cashier whispered to me one morning as I passed her cage. "He's Dround's manager--his name is Carmichael. When he s...

After the trial came another boost at Dround's. Thanks to the big Irishman, I had done pretty well before; but now there was some one at the top watching me. I was given a chanc...

They sent old John Carmichael around to treat with me. He had to come to the office the same as any other man who had a favor to ask. Slocum and I and two or three others who we...

"Hello! Here you be! Ain't I glad I found yer this soon," and Ed's brown eyes were looking into mine. His seemed to me just then about the best face in the world. "Seems though...

just about as wrong, too. Let me tell you one thing: if you folks were honest, if you didn't send rascals to Springfield and to Congress, if you weren't ready to take a dollar a...