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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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But
could
he
find
anybody
to
join
him
in
his
bold
undertaking?
Starving
adventurers
there
always
are,
ready
to
embark
in
any
Quixotic
attempt,
since
they
have
nothing
to
lose.
But
would
men
of
sense
and
of
character;
men
who
had
fortunes
to
keep,
and
the
habit
which
business
gives
of
looking
calmly
and
suspiciously
at
probabilities;
be
found
to
put
capital
in
an
enterprise
where,
if
it
failed,
they
would
find
their
money
literally
at
the
bottom
of
the
sea?
It
seemed
doubtful,
but
he
would
try.
His
plan
was,
if
possible,
to
enlist
ten
capitalists,
all
gentlemen
of
wealth,
who
together
could
lift
a
pretty
heavy
load;
who,
if
need
were,
could
easily
raise
a
million
of
dollars,
to
carry
out
any
undertaking.
The
first
man
whom
he
addressed
was
his
next-door
neighbor,
Mr.
Peter
Cooper,
in
whom
he
found
the
indisposition
which
a
man
of
large
fortune--now
well
advanced
in
life--would
naturally
feel
to
embark
in
new
enterprises.
The
reluctance
in
this
case
was
not
so
much
to
the
risking
of
capital,
as
to
having
his
mind
occupied
with
the
care
which
it
would
impose.
These
objections
slowly
yielded
to
other
considerations.
As
they
talked
it
over,
the
large
heart
of
Mr.
Cooper
began
to
see
that,
if
it
were
possible
to
accomplish
such
a
work,
it
would
be
a
great
public
benefit.
This
consideration
prevailed,
and
what
would
not
have
been
undertaken
as
a
private
speculation,
was
yielded
to
public
interest.
The
conference
ended
by
a
conditional
agreement
to
engage
in
it,
if
several
others
did,
and,
as
we
shall
see,
when
the
Company
was
organized,
he
became
its
President.
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