Mr. Plant Goes from New Haven to New York--Captain Stone’s Friendship--Mrs. Plant’s Health Fails again--Returns to the South--Is Appointed Superintendent of Adams Express Company--His Great Executive Ability--The Civil War--Mrs. Plant’s Death--Mr. Plant Buys out the Adams Express Company.....51-55 CHAPTER VI. Relations to the Confederate Government--Jefferson Davis Gives him Charge of Confederate Funds--Mr. Plant Buys a Slave, who afterward Nursed him through a Severe Sickness--Impaired Health--Goes to Bermuda, New York, Canada, and Europe--Second Marriage.....56-67 CHAPTER VII. Education from Books and from Experience--Keen Intuitions--Abreast of the Progress--Mr. Plant’s After-dinner Speech at Tampa Banquet Given him by Tampa Board of Trade, March 18, 1886--Location of Tampa--In Territorial Days Had a Military Reservation--In 1884 Population about Seven Hundred--Its Cosmopolitan Population now--Many Cubans and Spaniards in Tampa--Tobacco Industry--Phosphate Abounds in this Part of the State--Much of it Shipped to the North and to Europe--Plant System Gives Impetus to the Prosperity of the Place--Its Progress the Last Five or Six Years.....68-86 CHAPTER VIII. Florida Mr. Plant’s Hobby--Banquet at Ocala--Mr. Plant’s Speech--Sail on Lakes Harrison and Griffin--Banquet at Leesburg--Visit to Eustis--Cheering Words to a Young Editor--Make the Best of the Frost--It may be a Blessing in Disguise--Must Cultivate Other Fruits (and Cereals) besides Oranges--Importance of Honesty--Sense of Justice--Consideration for the Workmen--Unconscious Moulding-Power over Associates and Employees--Letter of Honorable Rufus B. Bullock.....87-101 CHAPTER IX. Mr. Plant’s Industry and Power to Endure Continuous Strain--Labor of Examining and Answering his Enormous Mail--Letter from Japan--Mail Delivered Regularly to him at Home and Abroad--His Private Car, its Style, Structure, Hospitality, and Cheering Presence--Numerous Calls--The Secret of his Endurance--The Esteem and Love of the Southern Express Company for its President--Mr. Plant Enjoys Social Life--He is a Great Lover of almost all Kinds of Music--Mr. Plant a Medical Benefactor--Some of the Progress Made in the Healing Art--Bishop of Winchester’s High Estimate of the Value of Health--Dr. Long’s Opinion of the Gulf Coast as a Health Restorer--Unrecognized Medicines in Restoring Lost Health--Nervousness among the American People--The Soothing and Strengthening Effect of Florida Climate--Mr. Plant’s Part in Facilitating Travel and Providing Comfortable Accommodations for the Invalid.....102-116 CHAPTER X. Reason for Submitting Press Sketches of Mr. Plant--_Descriptive America_, December, 1886--_City Items_, December, 1886--_Railroad Topics_--_Home Journal_, New York, March, 1896--F. G. De Fontain in same Journal--Ocala _Evening Times_, June, 1896--_Express Gazette_.....117-140 CHAPTER XI.