Huntington, Huntington, Huntington, Collis P. Huntington is who many consider to be the head of the Central Pacific railroad. The reason why it all came together, so to speak. Huntington was always a brash businessman. He even had the audacity to claim the Eiffel tower wasn’t profitable. Huntington was a man who was in it all for profit. I understand that the big four, the men responsible for the Central Pacific Railroad: IE Huntington, Leland Stanford, Crocker and Hopkins may have worked together, but it was Huntington who really wanted the money above all. Characteristics like this allow one to believe that these men were villians. Let me explain.
According to the Chris Matthews of the SF gate, Huntington was a malicious business man who …show more content…
Crocker was considered to be well spoken and easily approachable. When the congressional commissions would check in on the big four, Crocker was always the ‘tour guide’. Crocker would go out of his way to show inspectors the finest areas, where the track lied the best. Crocker would even take the inspectors for train rides, little did the inspectors know that Crocker would have the conductor speed up of the areas that were not constructed as well, strictly to manipulate the condition. The inspectors never knew what hit them. Huntington loved that Crocker was a con artist. Huntington was even quoted to say 'I think you must have slept with them,' this was from an actual writing Huntington wrote to Crocker. Huntington, as bold as he was, even went on to say 'There is nothing like sleeping with men, or women either for that matter.' (except from book by Richard Rayner, The Associates; Story of the Big …show more content…
It was just the search for gold still. The railroad was their chance and they seized it. Opportunists, not good, not evil. Not heroes, nor villains. These men just wanted a chance to succeed. The good was there, at heart. But men like Huntington, didn’t care about the individual, just the wallet. I’m indifferent. The values are like those of heroes, but the actions are the first demonstrated, well calculated manipulation of United States commerce. Today, men like the big four own sports teams, are gold and oil tycoons, generally big business billionaires who are not usually for the interests of people, in short-least likely to be heroes in today’s
According to the Chris Matthews of the SF gate, Huntington was a malicious business man who …show more content…
Crocker was considered to be well spoken and easily approachable. When the congressional commissions would check in on the big four, Crocker was always the ‘tour guide’. Crocker would go out of his way to show inspectors the finest areas, where the track lied the best. Crocker would even take the inspectors for train rides, little did the inspectors know that Crocker would have the conductor speed up of the areas that were not constructed as well, strictly to manipulate the condition. The inspectors never knew what hit them. Huntington loved that Crocker was a con artist. Huntington was even quoted to say 'I think you must have slept with them,' this was from an actual writing Huntington wrote to Crocker. Huntington, as bold as he was, even went on to say 'There is nothing like sleeping with men, or women either for that matter.' (except from book by Richard Rayner, The Associates; Story of the Big …show more content…
It was just the search for gold still. The railroad was their chance and they seized it. Opportunists, not good, not evil. Not heroes, nor villains. These men just wanted a chance to succeed. The good was there, at heart. But men like Huntington, didn’t care about the individual, just the wallet. I’m indifferent. The values are like those of heroes, but the actions are the first demonstrated, well calculated manipulation of United States commerce. Today, men like the big four own sports teams, are gold and oil tycoons, generally big business billionaires who are not usually for the interests of people, in short-least likely to be heroes in today’s