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that it would be a good idea if the company would pay off Orville so they would not have that obligation on their hands and if they would do that I wanted to resign.  [[strikethrough]] So [/strikethrough]] this was [[strikethrough]] accomplished [[/strikethrough]] agreed to.
     
They had some very wonderful men in connection with the company as [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] stock holders and directors. The company was composed of very wealthy New York men who had invested something like half a million dollars to buy all obligations.  Among them was W. B. Thompson, a big operator on the street, and Frank Manville of the firm John Manville and Company. The others I do not remember.

I found shortly after arriving in New York the new members of the Wright Company were not agreeing with one another. The president at that time represented a group of financiers and also the Simplex Automobile Company of New Brunswick. Among the deals that were made was the purchase by the Wright Company of the New Brunswick plant [[strikethrough]] for half a million dollars [[/strikethrough]] and Henry Lockhart was made the president. He had with him Mr. Henry Crane who was the chief engineer of the Crane Simplex Automobile.  [[strikethrough]] As I said before, [[/strikethrough]] Dissatisfaction developed through causes I am not familiar with and those in the majority decided to replace Mr. Lockhart with a man from Chicago. They moved the head of the Universal Portland Cement Company, Mr. Ned Hagar, together with his engineers and his secretary and also all their office furniture, to New York and set up business at 60 Broadway. I was placed in charge of the school and during [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] this period it was necessary for me to remain in the office to collect the money from students. We charged $500 for giving a student four hours training. If he needed more time he paid for it. With dual control on the Wright machine, it was possible to train a man in four hours. We had a waiting list.
     
One day a tall, rather lanking looking Texan with a big sombrero came in and said, "I want to see the head of the shooting match."