CHAPTER 2

DESIRE

THE STARTING POINT OF ALL ACHIEVEMENT

The First Step toward Riches

WHEN Edwin C. Barnes climbed down from the freight train in Orange,

N. J., more than thirty years ago, he may have resembled a tramp, but his

thoughts were those of a king!

As he made his way from the railroad tracks to Thomas A. Edison's office,

his mind was at work. He saw himself standing in Edison's presence. He

heard

himself asking Mr. Edison for an opportunity to carry out the one

CONSUMING

OBSESSION OF HIS LIFE, a BURNING DESIRE to become the business

associate

of the great inventor.