The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13
CARNEGIE OFFICIALS SILENT.
New Developments Expected in the Al
legged Armor-Plate Conspiracy.

legged ATmor-Plate Conspiracy.
P%ITTsBURG, Penn, March 6.-The
officials of the Carnegie Steel Company,
Limited, decline to talk about the con
spiracy alleged to have been the final
cause of its payment of $40, 434 81 to
the government as damages for deliver
ing inferior plate. When the names of
the supposed conspirators were shown
the officials to day they would not say
whether they were correct or other
wise,
It was intimated to day that the real
sensation in connection with the con
spiracy was yet to come, and might
develop o Suggesting it's import
ance, a nan whose business takes him
into the armor department at Home
stead from 8 o'clock in the morning
until 5 o'clock in the evening, said to-
day that it would be impossible for en-
ployees of the company to cause defec-
tive armor plate to be shipped without
the aid of higher officials, either of the
company or the government. He said
that the government inspectors saw
the armor plates every day and made
record of them, and that these records
are filed. When a plate was finished,
it's complete record through every pro-
cess was forwarded to the government
at the time it was shipped. There
would be no way to deceive the govern
ment unless such deception was ourted.
The informant also said that it was
equally impossible for an unauthorized
person to secure or use the government
seal with which such approved plate
was stamped.
About the works at Homestead the
idea Of a conspiracy is secuted by those
who know the amount of red tape each
plate must go through during it's man
ufacture. One of the men supposed to
have been in the conspiracy is said to
be still at work In the armor plate de-
partment.
The friends Of the men who furnished
information to the government are ex-
ceedingly angry at the imputations Of
conspiracy laid upon them In the recent
publications. It is not denied thatsF.
B. Perry, Edward Sill, Dennis Riley,
and T. E. James. until recently en-
plOyees Of the Carnegie Steel Company,
have received money from the United
States Government for their services
In furnishing the information relative
to the quality of the armor plate deliv-
cred to the Navy Department. The
assertion that the persons mentioned
were in any way responsible for the
shipment of defective plate is, how
ever, emphaticaIly denied, and it is
pointed out that it would have been
impossible for them to have entered
into such a con ypiracy or exercised any
control over the manufacture or ship
ment of the armor plate.
AS to the division Of the reward,
James has told some friends that he
received $7,400 as his share, and that
Perry, Sill, and Riley received similar
sums. b. B. Williams, an engineer,
and a man named Gregg, employed In
the heating department, received 81, 300
and So, 600, respectively. Five others,
whose names are unknown, got sums
ranging from $3.50 to $3.50.
The ex-naval official, who was the
channel by which the information
reached the government, issaid toEave
pocketed S., 500, while two attorneys
Of this city received handsome Res IN
consideration of their legal assistance