# Endnotes explained — Struggles and Triumphs

> Chapter companion for Struggles and Triumphs by P. T. Barnum.

## What happens

This chapter contains endnotes that provide additional context and commentary on earlier parts of the book, including references to local place names, a person named John Fish, and a dispute with the New York and New Haven Railroad Company over a law protecting commuters and the sale of this book.

## Key lines

> The New York and New Haven Railroad Company never forgave me for thus securing a righteous law for the protection of its commuters. Even as lately as 1871, the venders of books on the trains were prohibited from selling to passengers this book which exposes their cupidity.

The railroad company held a grudge against Barnum for getting a law passed that protected commuters, and as late as 1871, they banned the sale of his book on their trains because it revealed their greed.

_Barnum highlights his ongoing conflict with the railroad monopoly._

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