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The Metropolitan Street Railway System (New York)
Page entitled : Thomas Fortune Ryan stockbroker
Content of this page is about :
Of Thomas Fortune Ryan, his Southern origins, marriage to Ida Barry, move to
New York where he became a stock broker, Tammany Hall supporter and street
railway tycoon
Extract :
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then a member of the New York cable railroad syndicate, from which Jacob
Sharp had wrested the lucrative Broadway franchise by a more convenient
bribe. An alliance with William Collins Whitney, who had the keys to undo
the deal, and the Elkins-Widener Group of Philadelphia, who had the money,
was a logical step for Thomas
F. Ryan, at this stage of his career. More significant was the fact that
this group, henceforth known as the Street Railway Syndicate would stay
together in business for over two decades and act
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