Complex sentence: This company was organized in just six weeks from the time he undertook it, at that time it was the largest Edison illuminating company in the United States except one the Pearl Street Station, New York City, and had a capital of $250,000.
Split into simpler sentences: This company was organized in just six weeks from the time he undertook it. At that time it was the largest Edison illuminating company in the United States except the one at the Pearl Street Station, New York City, and had a capital of $250,000.