We have an offer to buy cheap the old Germantown Gas Company which has charter rights to go into any of the streets of Philadelphia.

We shall purchase that company, we will put ten millions new capital into it, and reduce the price of gas in Philadelphia to sixty cents a thousand.

Where will you be then ?" The face of the Colossus as he uttered this stand and deliver speech was calm and inscrutable.

Conscious of the resistless power of his untold millions, he felt no more compunction in mercilessly crushing this business rival than he would in trampling out the life of a worm.

The little man facing him looked haggard and distressed.