Using highly effective tactics, later widely criticized, it absorbed or destroyed most of its competition in Cleveland in less than two months and later throughout the northeastern United States.
通过后来受到广泛批评的高效战术，它在1872年的两个月内吞并或者摧毁了它在克里夫蘭的大部分竞争者，在后来更是席卷美国东北部。