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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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Yet
while
doing
so
much
for
the
public,
those
who
saw
Peter
Cooper
in
his
family
knew
how
he
retained
the
simple
habits
of
early
life--how,
while
giving
hundreds
of
thousands
to
others,
he
cared
to
spend
little
on
himself;
how
he
remained
the
same
modest,
kindly
old
man;
the
pure,
the
generous,
and
the
good.
His
was
"The
good
gray
head
that
all
men
knew,"
and
that
was
sadly
missed
when,
nearly
thirty
years
after,
in
1883,
at
the
age
of
ninety-two,
he
was
borne
to
his
grave.
It
is
a
pleasant
remembrance
that
the
beginning
of
this
enterprise
was
connected
with
that
honored
name.
Mr.
Field
next
addressed
himself
to
Mr.
Moses
Taylor,
a
well-known
capitalist
of
New
York,
engaged
in
extensive
business
reaching
to
different
parts
of
the
world,
and
whose
daily
observation
of
all
sorts
of
enterprises,
both
sound
and
visionary,
made
him
perhaps
a
severer
judge
of
any
new
scheme.
With
this
gentleman
he
had
then
no
personal
acquaintance,
but
sent
a
note
of
introduction
from
his
brother,
David
Dudley
Field,
with
a
line
requesting
an
interview,
to
which
Mr.
Taylor
replied
by
an
invitation
to
his
house
on
an
evening
when
he
should
be
disengaged.
As
these
two
gentlemen
afterwards
became
very
intimately
associated,
they
often
recurred
to
their
first
interview.
Said
Mr.
Field:
"I
shall
never
forget
how
Mr.
Taylor
received
me.
He
fixed
on
me
his
keen
eye,
as
if
he
would
look
through
me:
and
then,
sitting
down,
he
listened
to
me
for
nearly
an
hour
without
saying
a
word."
This
was
rather
an
ominous
beginning.
However,
his
quick
mind
soon
saw
the
possibilities
of
the
enterprise,
and
the
evening
ended
by
an
agreement--conditional,
like
Mr.
Cooper's--to
enter
into
it.
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