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Vacuum has always been generous to stockholders out of veneration for its creator, late Hiram B. Everest,* Rochester, N. Y. farmer, himself a poor man, and generous like all poor...
...close of the Civil War, Farmer Hiram was a failure. He loved to raise apples. But his apples rotted. His farm went to ruin and unrepair. The harness fell apart. Inventor Everest, always of a studious, enquiring drift of mind, tried some of Mr. John. D. Rockefeller's newfangled Pennsylvania fluid called petroleum on the harness. It softened, unstiffened. Manufacturer Everest built a small still near his barn, made harness dressing, sold it, prospered a little, but was utterly ruined by a patent suit establishing that somebody else had previously made harness dressing in the same kind of still...
...Litigant Everest turned to his abandoned harness-oil still. He thought of trying petroleum for mechanical lubrication. Only wax and vegetable oils were then in use. Modern lubrication science was born at the barn. The Rochester oil business soon became too vast for Hiram Everest. Responsibility of management told on him. The Standard Oil Company bought him out at a small price, throwing in a job with a small salary, a nominal job as President of the Vacuum† Oil Co. with nothing much to do. President Everest continued to raise apples on his farm outside Rochester...
...political difficulties of tackling Mr. Everest were cleared away by the personal friendship between Sir Charles Bell and the Dalai Lama of Lhasa. In 1922 the first expedition made an in-road on the desired region, mapping the surroundings, gained knowledge of the weather and choosing a route up the peak. A few poor attempts were made on the mountain itself, but these were abruptly ended by the death of several porters in an avalanche...
Captain Noel has given us the whole story as he saw it, and then shows why and how Everest may be conquered in the near future. This book is not technical; rather it is meant for public interest, and above all it justifies the spirit of men who accept the challenge which to others may seem foolish...