The Rutherfords of Fairfield made their fortune by exploiting cheap Irish labor to build railroads up and down the eastern seaboard. J. M. Rutherford seeks to continue the family legacy by exploiting cheap Chinese labor to build railways up and down the western seaboard.
A striking gentleman of great import, T. Archibald Foulke III bows to neither man nor beast. Having departed the east coast for great opportunity afforded by cheap labor and endless skies in the west, Mr. Foulke, a patriot, statesman, and captain of industry, seeks ever new enterprises in his quest to tame the wiles of nature.
R. Thurmane Woudspelle was a worrisome infant who showed signs of a dim future. He did not cry until well into this thirties, and he was unable to sit up on his own until he was seven or to speak until he was ten. On his fifteenth birthday, he vowed that he would one day not only read, but write critical essays on the subject of morality in political thought. He taught himself to read using his blind younger sister's braille books. Within a year, he had mastered braille and begun to pen his essays. He sent his first essay, "Why Must Doggies Die So Young? Probably Because They Are Jews" to the New York Times, but it was sent back to him with the criticism that it was "just a bunch of dots on a page." It was at this time that he decided it was in his best interest to learn to read and write in standard English. At the age of 34- an age that he emphasizes as the defining point in his journey to Man Hood- R. finished high school and left home to discover himself on the icy seas of the Pacific Ocean, working as a whaler for his uncle. He made the important discovery that he disliked the ocean and swore to never leave dry land again.
Dr. Brimsby is a leading mind in the fields of phrenology, cyptozoology, and astronomy. He has published papers for the New England Journal of Medicinal Salves and The Harvard Brumpton and has given guest lectures on subjects as varied as animal husbandry, the causes of Protestantism, and the negro mind.