Sublime

“Sidewalk Blues,” recorded by pianist Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers in Chicago on September 21, 1926.

Of course, his primary legacy lies in his railroads, the GN especially but also the NP, the Burlington, and the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle, which remained—after the Northern Securities decision—bound by a loose community of interest although not by a direct affiliation. The

And the Chase Manhattan Bank was selected by Moses as the trustee of Triborough’s bonds and hence was the single largest recipient of the lucrative service fees connected with them.

Thus prepared, after a frenzied holiday season, the foursome, along with their Saint Paul attorney R. B. Galusha, headed to New York early in January of the fateful year 1878 to meet with Kennedy and his associate Barnes. They found Kennedy eager to close a deal with his Dutch clients, for he genuinely believed this offer to be the best they were l