The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-14
Highest of all in Leavenng Power-Latest u Govt Report
R1!A!:,.:!! B Psxds1
ABSOLUTELY PURE
PURE

AD9yA0
tries; Scotch bag-pipes play at his sociai
entertainments; he makes Scotland ms
summer home and intends to BUY an es-
tate there; he has beautihed his native
city Of Dunfermhae, and he looks forward
to home rule for Scotland
In politics he is a Republican ana
great believer in protection and IS me
largest contributor 10 the campaign iunos
next to Levi P. Morton. He Is great
friend and admirer OF James g. Blaine
An idea of the immensely Of Mr.. Car
negie's business Is gwen by William
Hainsworth, who formerly had large
dealings with him when himself IN the
steel business in P!ttsburg. He said:
The annual output OF the nine blast furnaces
at Brsddock is $4,000 tons and OF the two Lucy
furnaces st Pitisburg rs 900 tons. making total
o. 10000 tons, over ole-tenta OF the Whoie
output Of the United states in 1870 and more
than the whole output OF the United states IN
1851 The output OF his plan.s is equal 70 the
toia. output Of the United states III 1910. ne
production OF pig iron IN the United Ssates n
1851 10000 tons, end in $3.50 lg,o0JUo tons.
In England the production in ISL was a5-o,So9
ond in $50 9.600.090 tons, that this county
has passed Eng isnd in the race, largely through
Mr.. Carnegie's efforts Here is the production
OF his various mills in 1890;
Tons
Braddock Steel Works, rails. e.: $500
blIe, s.' 7.oe. o-.' $50 $500
Homestead Steel Works, Bsssener and
open hearth steel. -.---....--.....-.-- osg,So
Thirty-third Street Steel Works, Pitts
burg. finished steel s5,u09
burg. rsiiroad Work AMI eas3ihgs'.".-. 5000
oil Morris fa-Ssat w
and wire nails ----------------.----- ei'oo
Total 600
| How much he contributes to the total produc-
ton OF BeSsemer steel OF the country and TO the
| fact that we have passed England in TIE rsee IS
| shown By these figures:
Tons.
/ Production o: United states in is73.-.-. Ea,A0o
Production OF United States in loS9.-.- S,s1,1c0
/ Production OF England in ISL 2.io,e0
! Mr.. Carnegie makes more tons of steel ingots
/ ST the present time in one year than the whole
! output Of steel producers il tie United Etstes
I IN 1880.
/ /. was and is thought to be something above
/ the average for private firms TO do business OF
! 81, 100000 year. Take Mr. Carnegie's 10000
tons Of proiuct of pig iron Der year, and reraen-
Der that il varies in price 81 ton sometimes IN
| few months. For instance, in January, lSo9,
| Bessemer pig iron was worth SIC; on January /,
! 1891, SIS. II SIC was the minimum cost, IL Will
be noticed that his income would be al the rate
OF s. 900 on the production OF pig iron alone
| Mr. Prick is an example of the rise of a
| man from proverty to wealth only second
| to Mr. Carnegie. Little more than twenty
| years ago he was a clerk in a store at
| Broadford, Pa. He obtained control of a
/ small coke works and organized the firm
| of H. C. Frick & Co. He gradually ex-
/ tended his business by acquiring increased
/ acreage of coal and buying or erecting new
ovens. Finally Mr.. Carnegie joined him
| in organizing the H. c. Frick Coke COM
| pany. which was the largest in the Con-
/ nellsville region. This company has
| gradually bought ont one company after
another until it now owns l1.Oo of the
1900 ovens and 5000 of the 81 900 acres
! OF coal in the Connellsville coking coal
| belt 1t ships 1000 car loads, or 1000
| tons of coke a week, the bulk OF it going TO
| the Carnegie furnaces.
| In an interview last night Mr.. Frick
! said:
We have regained control Of the labor in the
region since the great strike OF last summer.
| The majority Of the Italians we brought IN
| during the strike have since Left but the coun-
| try remains quiet and the works are running
| steadily. There is such sn oyer-production OF
| pig iron that many furnaces are going out OF
blast, but we have hardly begun 70 feel it yet in
| the falling of in the demand for coke.
| Mr. Smith, president of the New York
| Chamber of Commerce, is brother OF
| Commodore James D. Smith, who was the
| chief financial hacker OF the Lake Shore
road He is deeply interested in the sue
cess of the Nicaragua canal, and said Of
| that enterprise:
What you people on the Coast ought TO do is 10
- ~t,.1 IL
| ton OF that canal II will do more for you than
| anything else. 1t will put you nearer New York
| than Kansas is. You could ship your lumber
to New York in competition with Maine and
| send all your perishsble products TO the Allan
| tic coast, while you cannot send them around
the Horn. You could ship wheat in bulk in
| stead OF sending i in sacks around the Horn.
| Mr Warner Miller the president OF the COM
| psny is spending about $500 month on it
| He is placing the stock gradually among his
| friends in the East. Mr. Carnegie subscribed
| $4,000 TO it the other day and Is deeply inter
ested in its success
Is there any prospect that congress will pass
| the bill TO guarantee the bonds?
None ct all from this congress- The Demo-
Gratis are following a cheese pairing policy all
through They even rejected an appropriation
OF 5000 for drainage at the West Point academy
made necessary by sickness We must wsit till
the new congress: there Will be change this
fall
What do you think OF the silver agitation7
Both the Democrats and Republicans are d.
vided on the question, but the Democrats are
afraid TO do anything. Even If the bill, does pass
both houses, the president will veto it. and they
cannot pass il over his veto An international
monetary conference would only end IN talk
Germany would not remonetize silver, and no
body in England fayors it, except the corn-
parauveIy Jew people who are interested in
India.
What do you think of the presidential olt-
look?
President Harrison will be renomiIatad and
reelected His tour through the country
strengthened him. Blaine would not run,
although he could certainly sweep the country
he IS a SIC. man and his family would not CON
sent 10 it.
Neither Hill nor Cleveland can be nominated
by the Democrats. Hills conduct OF affairs and
his early convention have disguised the people,
aud tine Republicans VIII certainly carry
New YORK STATE this fall. HUI is thorough
demagogue. Why, even his district of Ellnira
went against him AMI tie Republicans have
gained immensely III the town elections. The
! Cleveland uen will send contestinC delegation
TO Chicago, and half OF each delegation viii
| probably be admitted; there IS precedent for
it. With New York divided between them
Hill and Cleveland are out of the question. Whit
uey i not var,t,lar with his pgrtv. and would