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His manner was so impressive that he really made me uneasy
lest I had broken some kind of a law I knew not of. From the fact
that not long after window reflectors began to make their appearance
in Buffalo, I infer that, whatever the enactment, it did not apply
to natives, or else that he was a very fearless man, willing to
take the risk from which he would save me--a sort of commercial
philanthropist. However, by that time I had other things to think
of, being a drummer and a very energetic one.
It came about in this way: some countrymen of mine had started
a cooperative furniture-factory in Jamestown, where there were
water-power and cheap lumber. They had no capital, but just below
was the oil country, where everybody had money, slathers of it. New
wells gushed every day, and boom towns were springing up all along
the Allegheny valley. Men were streaming into it from everywhere,
and needed furniture. If once they got the grip on that country,
reasoned the furniture-makers, they would get rich quickly with
the rest. The thing was to get it.


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