Morgan and Company, first attempted to combine these great companies, the antagonisms which had been accumulated in many years of warfare constantly threatened to defeat his end.

He early discovered that the only way to bring these men together was to keep them apart.

The usual way of creating such combinations is to collect the representative leaders, place them around a table, and persuade them to talk the thing over.

Such an amicable situation, however, was impossible in the present instance.

Even when the four big men--McCormick, Deering, Glessner, and Jones--were finally brought for the final treaty of peace to J.P.
Morgan's office, Mr.Perkins had to station them in four separate rooms and flit from one to another arranging terms.