Chapter 2—William J. Hypperbone
Because James T. Davidson, Gordon S. Allen, Harry B Andrews, John I. Dickinson, George B. Higginbotham, and Thomas R. Carlisle have been mentioned among the distinguished crowd walking behind the car, it need not be inferred that they were the most prominent members of the Eccentric Club.
In fact, to tell the truth, there was nothing eccentric in their manner of living in this world, except in their belonging to the said club in Mohawk Street. These eminent sons of Jonathan, grown wealthy in their multiple and profitable businesses in land, salt provisions, petroleum, railways, mines, stock raising, stock slaughtering, may have intended to astonish their compatriots in the fifty-one States of the Union and the new and old worlds by their ultra-American ext
