The demand for the _Tribune_ grew faster than new machinery could be obtained to print it.

It was a paper whose editor always tried to be _right_.
At the World's Fair in New York in 1853 President Pierce might have been seen watching a young man exhibiting a patent rat trap.

He was attracted by the enthusiasm and diligence of the young man, but never dreamed that he would become one of the richest men in the world.

It seemed like small business for Jay Gould to be exhibiting a rat trap, but he did it well and with enthusiasm.

In fact he was bound to do it as well as it could be done.