Illustrations

Tom L. Johnson

TOM L. JOHNSON AT SEVENTEEN

A.V. DU PONT

BIDERMANN DU PONT

TOM L. JOHNSON AT TWENTY-SIX
“Just ten years after my entrance into the business as an office boy I became a bidder for a street railway grant in Cleveland.”

JOHNSON COMPANY WORKS
Taken during early history of company when Mr. Johnson was connected with it

RECENT PICTURE OF JOHNSON COMPANY WORKS
Town of Moxham, Seventeenth Ward of Johnstown, Pa.

TOM L. JOHNSON AT THIRTY-TWO
“Protected now by special grants in the highway, by the tariff and by land monopoly my training as a monopolist had gone far.”

CERTIFICATE ISSUED BY THE JOHNSON COMPANY AT JOHNSTOWN

HENRY GEORGE

NOW THE NATIONAL TUBE COMPANY: BUILT BY MR. JOHNSON

“Chance was responsible for my tent meeting campaigning.”

HAZEN S. PINGREE

WILLIAM J. SPRINGBORN

FREDERIC C. HOWE
Two Republican councilmen who early identified themselves with the administration

EDWARD W. BEMIS
“An expert on the valuation of public service corporations, and the only such expert on the people’s side.”

THE JOHNSON MANSION ON EUCLID AVENUE

Surveying at Franklin Circle for three-cent fare line

Laying the first rails for the three-cent line

Getting ready to pitch the tent in the Public Square, Cleveland, 1902

FRED KOHLER, CHIEF OF POLICE
“He got results and on these results he built what has come to be known as the Golden Rule policy.”

HARRIS R. COOLEY
“If service of a higher order on humanitarian lines has ever been rendered to any city than that rendered by Mr. Cooley to Cleveland I have yet to hear of it.”

“My enemies called my tent a circus menagerie.”

A poster in the campaign of 1902

Pitching the tent in a cornfield

“The tents were sent from town to town by wagon train.”

MR. JOHNSON IN 1905

Asking the Mayor’s permission to play ball on streets

“By common consent I was the motorman.”

First three-cent fare car-November 1, 1906

“The night of December 26, 1906, the Forest City Company attempted to lay temporary tracks on top of the pavement on Superior St., N.W.”

Tom L. Johnson entering voting booth, November 7, 1906

1. A. B. DU PONT. 2. MAYOR JOHNSON. 3. VICE MAYOR LAPP. 4. MAYOR’S SECRETARY, W. B. GONGWER. 5. PETER WITT. 6. FREDERIC C. HOWE.
“It had taken two and a half years to get the grant for that car to run to the Square and nearly four and a half years . . . for it to wade its way through injunctions to that point.”