Sol Bloom is very innovative at coming up with new ways in making money. “At the Alcazar he inserted into scripts the name of popular products, bars, and restaurants, including the Cliff House, and for this received another stream of income.” (136) Based on this excerpt he was doing product placement and advertising local businesses for a fee, the way that radio and TV stations do nowadays. “He also organized a cadre of professional applauders,”(136) Much like the screens at TV tapings that say applause. I feel that these were revolutionary at this time in America’s history. I think that he was given the opportunity to be the “czar” of the midway was because of his innovation and tenacious attitude.

Frederick Law Olmsted was a man of great strength and resolve. He was a man of great forethought. All of his ideas were meant to be realized 10-20 years into the future. It takes great strength and resolve to not let people change your vision, but to have to keep people from changing your ideas for 20+ years is proof of his resolve.”, he learned of another attack on his beloved Central Park.” (169) He was under constant pressure to let somebody put buildings on the Wooded Island. “The island had come under repeated assault, promoting a resurfacing of Olmsted’s old anger about the compulsion of clients to tinker with his landscapes.”(168) After all this he finally relented and let Japan build a temple.

H.H. Holmes valued power more than anything else. “What he craved was possession and the power it gave him; what he adored was anticipation – the slow acquisition of love, then life, and finally the secrets within.” (200) He wanted to control the women that worked for him and the women he courted. These were usually one and the same.