. THE visible exponents of a commercial institution like thatof P. & F. Corbin are the men who conduct it, thebuildings that afford it a home, and the goods which itproduces and which furnish the reason for its existence. Its history naturally consists in the relation of the events inwhich these factors appear conjointly and the circumstances whichaffect them. It is this which the following pages attempt to set forth. In writing the story the greatest difficulty has been to obeythe injunction to keep in the background the personality
. THE visible exponents of a commercial institution like thatof P. & F. Corbin are the men who conduct it, thebuildings that afford it a home, and the goods which itproduces and which furnish the reason for its existence. Its history naturally consists in the relation of the events inwhich these factors appear conjointly and the circumstances whichaffect them. It is this which the following pages attempt to set forth. In writing the story the greatest difficulty has been to obeythe injunction to keep in the background the personality of themen who have made the business. I have done all that I couldin this direction, even to the extent of suppressing some occur-rences that have had an important bearing upon the prosperity ofthe company and of minimizing the part in its growth and devel-opment taken by one or two of the persons who are still activelyengaged in its affairs. Yet, I trust that those who read can find between the linesthat which I have not been permitted to write, and wi
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