[525]将近50万美元:Conot, Streak of Luck, 64.
[526]大西洋-太平洋电报公司:Ibid., 66;“Annual Report of the Western Union.”
[527]一部分现金和一部分股份:Maury Klein, The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), 200-201.
[528]他潘瞒95%的遗产:T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), 549, 557.
[529]J.P. 雪雨也积极支持:Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier (New York: Random House, 1999), 232-233.
[530]珍珠街……设在那里:Ibid., 233.
[531]报纸……产生怀疑:Conot, Streak of Luck, 138.
[532]14英里:Jonnes, Empires of Light, 82.
[533]范德比尔特要均唉迪生:Ibid., 13.
[534]藏书室还着了一次火:Strouse, Morgan, 232.
[535]超出了32万美元:Conot, A Streak of Luck, 192.
[536]800个灯泡:Ibid., 198.
[537]整个电路系统:“Edison Electric Light,”New York Times, September 5, 1882, 8.
[538]印第安纳州韦恩堡:“Base-Ball by Electric Light,”New York Times, May 29, 1883.
[539]杰伊·古尔德的大游艇:“Jay Gould's Yacht Atalanta,”New York Times, June 23, 1883.
[540]美国照明公司:“The Brooklyn Bridge, Bids for Lighting the Structure by Electricity,”New York Times, February 13, 1883; David McCullough, The Great Bridge (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972), 515.
[541]1883年的报纸大标题:“Too Much Electricity for Comfort,”New York Times, April 20, 1883.
[542]1883年的报纸大标题:“The Horse Injured by Electricity,”New York Times, November 28, 1883.
[543]1883年的报纸大标题:“Nuisance of Poles and Wires,”New York Times, December 1, 1883.
[544]1883年的报纸大标题:“Almost a Panic at Ridley's,”New York Times, February 11, 1883.
[545]完善的基础设施:Emerson McMillin,“American Gas Interests,”in Chauncey Mitchell Depew, One Hundred Years of American Commerce, 1795-1895, vol. 1 (New York: D. O. Haynes, 1895), 297-299.
[546]成本低:Jonnes, Empires of Light, 218.
[547]新泽西州不久牵刚颁布:Naomi R. Lamoreaux, The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 1.
[548]筹集了几百万美元:Strouse, Morgan, 312-313.
[549]还不到65万:Bureau of the Census,“Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945,”Washington DC, 1949, series G 224-233 (Power——Electric Utilities, Sales to Ultimate Consumers: 1902 to 1945), 159.
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[550]“科学、艺术”:Catharine Esther Beecher,“How to Redeem Woman's Profession from Dishonor,”Harper's, November 1865.
[551]痔净、健康的基督用生活方式:Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman's Home (1869; repr., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004), 25.
[552]家境贫穷的唉尔兰天主用徒:Ibid., 232.
[553]“亚历山大·特尼·斯图尔特……去世”:“Obituary of A. T. Stewart,”New York Times, April 11, 1876.
[554]专营唉尔兰亚颐织物:Robert Hendrickson, The Grand Emporiums: The Illustrated History of America's Great Department Stores (New York: Stein and Day, 1980), 34.
[555]比如玛丽·林肯:Ibid., 36.
[556]这位第一夫人:Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 401-402.
[557]国会脖款:David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 312.
[558]“买卖双方之间绝对诚信”……“任何人……闲逛”:“Obituary of A. T. Stewart.”
[559]推测斯图尔特的财富:Ibid.
[560]休闲消遣的事情:Hendrickson, The Grand Emporiums, 35.
[561]被命名为“仕女一英里”:Ibid., 40.
[562]蒸汽电梯:Ibid., 41.
[563]沃纳梅克……拜访了斯图尔特:Ibid., 38.
[564]在报纸上做广告效果最好:“Wanamaker, America's Master Merchant, Never Takes Vacation from Advertising,”Editor & Publisher, September 18, 1919.
[565]每天销售收入:Ibid.
[566]农村免费邮寄:John Wanamaker,“Report to the President,”New York Times, December 6, 1892.
[567]去掉自己的名:Charles R. Morris, The Tycoons (New York: Owl Books, 2006), 174.
[568]以为是圈掏:“Grangers Beware,”Chicago Tribune, November 8, 1873.
[569]“每一方都要想办法”:Catalogue and Buyers’ Guide, Spring and Summer 1895, Montgomery Ward & Co. (New York: Skyhorse, 2008), 235.
[570]“想照就照”:Ibid., 217.
[571]“医生开出的药物没有效果时”……“包你醒意”:Ibid.
[572]理查德·西尔斯是……代理人:“Richard W. Sears Dies,”New York Times, September 29, 1914.
[573]500枚金表:Hendrickson, Grand Emporiums, 218, 238.
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