Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — Defaulter Builds Railroad. [ARTICLE]

Defaulter Builds Railroad.

"For romantic careers of our own citizens In South America contemplate Henry Meiggswrites Judson C. Web liver in*Munsey’s Magazine for October. “Meiggs fled from San Francisco to Chile* a defaulter; built the railroads of that country and Peru, made and lost four huge fortunes and died in hia exile, almost poor, because, though he bad long since repaid,bis defalcation, the indictment was ‘ always held over his head. On one of the railroads he built, the Central of Peru, you may be whirled through a tunnel a thousand feet higher than the summit of Pikes Peak”