http://www.cityofsmoke.com New York History, Commentary, and Culture Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:23:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/348 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/348#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:36:11 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=348 He went four times around the world and inspired Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. He devised the financing scheme for the transcontinental railroad, lobbied Congress to enact it, and made a fortune from it. And at the end, nearly penniless and living in a Greenwich Village single Read More]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/348/feed 0