The versatile genius of Taylor

              qualified to review this part of his career and a complete account of his achievements remains to be compiled.

After this he re-organized the Symonds Ball Bearing Company at Fitchburg, Mass., and while there engaged, he incidentally developed his ingenuity as a detective and succeeded in trapping a number of concerns suspected of infringing the Symonds Patents. Although I have forgotten the details of these exploits, the impression made by their recital some fifteen years ago was one of admiration and amusement not excelled by any of the Sherlock Holmes stories I have since read, and I have no doubt that the License found among Taylor's effects as a Stationary Steam Engineer in Massachusetts from 1897 to 1900 bears directly upon his detective work. As I remember, this was one of his schemes to obtain access to the plant of a suspected competitor where Taylor applied for a job to run the engine and finally ran the concern out of business.

His work at Bethlehem, resulting in his epoch making discovery for the treatment of high speed steel and the further development of his ideas in management are so recent and so well known as to require no special notice from me. After Bethlehem, he was offered fabulous sums for the re-organization of other large concerns, but he realized that he was nearing the limit to his powers of endurance and wisely considered his health of more importance to himself and to the cause for which he stood than any monetary compensation.

Having acquired a competence, and believing that he could no longer afford to work for money, for the last ten or fifteen years of his life he devoted himself to the welfare of humanity by spreading his new gospel of management throughout the world at the sacrifice of his fortune, personal comfort and health; and it was while so engaged that