The fact that, unlike the Cleveland refiners, many of the firms in these other cities took Standard stock, and so became parts of the new organization, is in itself significant.

They evidently realized that they were casting their fortunes with the winning side.
The huge shipments which the Standard now controlled explain this change in front.

Every day Mr.Rockefeller could send from Cleveland to the seaboard a train, sixty cars long, loaded with the blue barrels containing his celebrated liquid.

That was a consideration for which any railroad would at that time sell its soul.

And the New York Central road promptly made this sacrifice.