The Oil and Stock Exchanges in Pittsburgh had not as yet been founded and brokers' offices with wires in connection with the stock exchanges of the East were unnecessary.

Pittsburgh was emphatically a manufacturing town.
I was surprised to find how very different was the state of affairs in New York.

There were few even of the business men who had not their ventures in Wall Street to a greater or less extent.

I was besieged with inquiries from all quarters in regard to the various railway enterprises with which I was connected.

Offers were made to me by persons who were willing to furnish capital for investment and allow me to manage it--the supposition being that from the inside view which I was enabled to obtain I could invest for them successfully.
Invitations were extended to me to join parties who intended quietly to buy up the control of certain properties.