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Excerpt from The Barrier He had been a contrast to Ellis in the Openness of his methods and the rapidity of his success. To organise all the street-railways of his city, to force his person ality upon the stockholders of three lines, and to weld the old clumsy systems into one efficient whole - that was George Mather's achievement. To be head and shoulders above all others of his years as the street railway president, yes, and as the man in whom the reform politicians built their best hopes - that was his pride, and his class was proud of him. But his strength was his weakness, for he used no trickery and he kept his word. Therefore by a business stroke undertaken against him in the face of an agreement, a method not so analogous to a stab in the back as to the adroit administering Of poison in a loving-cup, Mather was upon a certain spring morning, at a certain stock-holders' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.