St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-16
THREE COAL KINGS.
FL. Clay Prick, Hon. William L.
Scott and Capt. "Sam" Brown.

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Scott and Capt. "Sam" Brown.
In the course of an extended article
on kings of the Coal Fields" the New
York World prints the following:
The third great coal king of the coun-
try is Henry Clay Frlck, of Pittsburg,
who represents $1,000 acres of coal land.
This enormous coal bed is mainly in the
Connellsville coking coal region. The
Henry Clay Frick Coke company has
over 1000 ovens. its daily output is some
$4,000 tons, and its aggregate product is
larger than that Of any coke-producing
company in the world.
MIR. Frick is young man, blonde,
aboct feet inches in height, of slight
build, sandy complexion and affable
manners. Few men are worth so much
money and hire so many men and play
so conspicuous part in the industrial
world at so early an age. Mr.. Prick
will not be forty until the 18th day of
next December. Mr.. Prick must be
worth between $10,000,000 and $4,000
600, OF represents, atleast, coal holdings
of that value. He is the most approach
able of milliOnaireS, small in person and
soft of voice. His career is one of the
romances OF which the annals of Amer
lean milliOnaifeS are full. Twenty years
ago he was poor young man, book
deeper on small salary, an employe,
however, who was so industrious, tact
full and thoughtful as to win the esteem
Of his employers and the respect of all
with whom he came III contact. He
saved his salary, went into business for
himself, and, once his own boss, began
to develop speedily great talent for
n nf
As rule Mr.. Frick has been fair to
his employees. The name of Frlck is not
unpleasantly associated with labor
troubles. as are those of Scott and Jay
Gould, for instance. Mr.. Prick has
even gone further than this. He has
been known at times actually to pay his
men more wages than did any other
employer around him.
Col William l.. Scott, of Erie, Pa,
also of New York, and Long Branch,
and Philadelphia, is fifth at least in
wealth, power and extent of holdings
among the coal kings of the country.
He is abont FIVE feet nine inches high,
weighs about 155 pounds, has sandy
mustache, sandy gray hair, sandy
brown eyes, and wears new and expen-
sive clothes. Col. Scott is about fifty
years of age, and he is a great chum of
Gen. ''Sam" Thomas and Col. Gal"
Brice. Col. "Bill'' ScOtt'S coal fields are
in Western Pennsylvania. in the soft
coal regions, and he mines both btu
minOuS and gas coal.
The great Scott coal mines, where
there have been so many miners
strikes of recent years. are at Scott
Haven, on the Baltimore &c Ohio rail-
road, in which Col. Scott'S great friend,
Senator German, is big man. The re-
lations uetween Col. Scott and his coal
miners are said to have been brought
to peaceful basis by means of a new
arrangement he has entered into with
them. There are no company stores
at Scott Haven, and it is said that the
men are paid in cash fixed rate of
wages the year round. 1t is even
declared by coal sharps that Col.
Scoott's system is the most successful
in use in Western Pennsylvania.
OF course there have been some saw
age strikes at Scott Haven OIL the sub
ject of wages. and Col. ScOtt'S miners
now receive actually less than their fell
lows in the neighbOring mines. But to
make up for that, they have steady en-
ployment all the year round at fixed
probably 100000 at a low estimate.
sentS only himSelf-and he is an auto
crat to those with whom he has the rela-
ton of an emplOyer-Col. Scott, with
his immense mining interests, cuts a
very important figure in the world of
coal. He has interests in other coal
beds than those at Scott Haven, and it
is thought has good deal to say about
the Denver 81 Rio Grande'S coal fields
in Colorado.
Col. Scott's personality presents so
many and such richly varied sides to
the public that it Is saying good deal
to declare that he drives better bar
gain and gets better transportation and
makes more money as coal king than in
any other aspect of his plutocratic
being. Col. ScOtt's fortune is rated at
sl5, 100000 He has achieved the dream of
his life by returning to congress as
member and remembering with pride
how he once served there as page.
Col. Scott danced with Mrs. Cleveland.
civilian ii. Brown d Co." are the
biggest coal miners and shippers any
where in Western Pennsylvania, and,
indeed. along the Ohio river. The
elder Brown, William H., IS dead, and
the firms enormous business is carried
on now by his sons, chief of whom is
man. whose figure is familiar oh all the
Eastern race tracks. and who was
famous some time since as the owner of
that crack racer. Tr0ubadOur. Cant.
"Sam" is about forty. about six feet one
inch high and weighs about 225 pounds.
He wears small mustache, and has a
better-natured look than most million
aires
Cant "Sam,sn coal fields are on the
Monongahela river, in Allegheny conn
tv He emnIovs several Thousand min.
ers the mines are worth "a GOO 600 or
& ooo 600 and the bnsiness which in
cImdes anv number of bar9es. scowsi
tuos steamers etc as we'll az Goa
Yards in JonisviIle Cincinnati Mem
mis- Ration Roupe St T,ouis and New
orleans can't he worth much less than
s1o 0O0 O0O or s15 .OOO. Oo0. Cant. ..Samo
OWNS coma Tood horSeS and the biTgast
The Browns have heen in coal for
nearly half century and have no idea
of not keeping on i'll coal. By owning
bargeS, steamers and yards. as we'll as
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