Illustrations
![TOM L. JOHNSON AT SEVENTEEN](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Tom_Johnson_page_53-256x300.png)
![A.V. DU PONT](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/duPont_page_54-262x300.png)
![BIDERMANN DU PONT](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Biderman_duPont_page_55-272x300.png)
![TOM L. JOHNSON AT TWENTY-SIX](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Johnson_page-64-211x300.png)
“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](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Johnson_company_page_75-300x223.png)
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.](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/recent_image_Johnson_company_page_76-300x227.png)
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."](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Johnson_at_32_page-81-202x300.png)
“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](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Bond_certificate_page_96-300x136.png)
![HENRY GEORGE](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Henry_George_page-107-213x300.png)
![NOW THE NATIONAL TUBE COMPANY: BUILT BY MR. JOHNSON](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/National_Tube_Company_page_128-300x128.png)
!["Chance was responsible for my tent meeting campaigning."](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Tent_Meeting_page_137-300x184.png)
![HAZEN S. PINGREE](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Hazen_page_150-187x300.png)
![WILLIAM J. SPRINGBORN](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/springborn_page_175-235x300.png)
![FREDERIC C. HOWE Two Republican councilmen who early identified themselves with the administration](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Frederic_howe_page_176-275x300.png)
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."](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Bemis_page_189-193x300.png)
“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](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Johnson_Mansion_page_206-300x187.png)
![Surveying at Franklin Circle for three-cent fare line](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Franklin_circle_page_221-300x209.png)
![Laying the first rails for the three-cent line](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Laying_the_first_rails_page_222-300x212.png)
![Getting ready to pitch the tent in the Public Square, Cleveland, 1902](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/public_square_page_231-300x208.png)
![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."](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Fred_kohler_page_244-234x300.png)
“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."](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Cooley_page_245-234x300.png)
“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."](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/tent_page-258-300x209.png)
![A poster in the campaign of 1902](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Poster_page_259-300x210.png)
![Pitching the tent in a cornfield](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Tent_in_cornfield_page_270-300x215.png)
!["The tents were sent from town to town by wagon train."](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Wagon_traing_page_271-300x217.png)
![MR. JOHNSON IN 1905](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Tom_Johnson_page_282-225x300.png)
![Asking the Mayor's permission to play ball on streets](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/asking_permission_page_293-196x300.png)
!["By common consent I was the motorman."](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/motorman_page_308-300x217.png)
![Photos by L. Van Oeyen](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/3-cent-care-fare_page_309-300x214.png)
!["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."](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/December_26__page_314-210x300.png)
![Tom L. Johnson entering voting booth, November 7, 1906](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Johnson_voting_page_321-231x300.png)
![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."](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/group_page_324-300x191.png)
“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.”
![Characteristic group receiving election returns in City Hall](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/group_receiving_election_returns_page_339-300x188.png)
![At work on Pay Enter Fare Box](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/at_work__page_352-188x300.png)
!["The secret of a good executive is this--one who always acts quickly and is sometimes right."](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/good_executive_361-300x246.png)
![A. B. DU PONT](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/A_B_Dupont_page_368-230x300.png)
![F. H. GOFF](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Goff_page-369-239x300.png)
![PETER WITT TOM L. JOHNSON NEWTON D. BAKER 1910](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Witt_Johnson_Baker_page_374-237x300.png)
1910
![DINNER GIVEN TO MR. JOHNSON IN LONDON, APRIL, 1910](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/Dinner_page_379-300x177.png)
![THE JOHNSON-GEORGE MEDALLION](https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/my-story-tlj/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/03/medallion_page_393-300x162.png)