The morning news., 1899-01-01

OF my plan. At first she would have mona
OF II, but persuaded her | assured her
she could rely on my care not to place
her IN false position, aud finally she
agreed. Well, the trip was made as
planned 1t, and eventually Col. Scott and
MISS Riddle were married She was q
charming girl and made him a good wife
ana that IS why l say / was able to do
hlm one good turn. anyway. in repaymenf
of the many he did me.
was examining the railroad track onc
day aIter my return 20 the service Of tbe
pennsylvania Railroad Company when a
tan man with a green bag in his hand
came up and asked me if l was connected
with the Pennsylvania Railroad ComDanv
w Aeh l sald yes, he drew out the model
OF sleeping birth and showed if 10 mo
lie did not need to explain it al very ,,reat
lehgth. seemed 10 see its vaiue ar a
hash. Railroad cars in which peoDle couId
steep on long journeys-of course there
were no raiiroads across the continent yer
struck me as being the very thing for ,bis
Iand OF magnificent distances I told hin,
l would speak about his model to Mr.
9coi'' ana dld so, enthusastically. He
uiu not share my enthusiasm, but said r
nlght bring the inventor TO see him 50
l introduced T. T. Woodruff. the inventoT
OF the sleeping car. And the result was NOT
ohiy the building of two trial cars. which
were run over the PENNSYLVANIA railroad
but the formation of a sleepine oar con,
pany in which l was offered an interest T
promptly accepted, although [ didn't ouito
KNOW where my share Of the capital was
coming from. But this nv third bnsi,as,
venture, found me confident in my abilit,,
to overcome difficulties. / had secYred M
money 60 buy the Adams Express stoclr.
car stock. 9'se pms
But how? At last ! went to the hank
ana telling the president the exact facte
ouered MIN my note for $21750-my share
Oh the first payment on the stock-if he
Woutu ADVANCE me the money and let me
pay nm back out of my salary al the ratio
Of SIS month To my delight. he natte4
me on the back said "You are All rigbt
Andy and discounted my note NV suh'
sequent payments for stock in the Uood
ruff Sleeping Car Company | was anaGIe,1
to meet without giving any more NOS
from the receipts Of the cars themselves n
was thus made my first substantial can't
tai. apr
Opportunity in Oil.
When l heard of the oil strike on the
Storey farm, on Oil creek. | reserved 10 in
vest IN oil lands. l visited that famous
% %weii from Whlch quantities Of oil were run
hlhS waste into the creek The caracit,,
OF the Wen was several hundred barrels n
DAY, put when my associates and I bougbt
the farm for $4,000 we had no conddancn
mat this flow would continue and b1lt !,
pond big enough TO hold 100000 barrels W.
ran our oil into this pond until we had
run IN several hundred thousand barraJs
part or which leaked and some of which
eVaporated. Yet this investment Of ca ooo
paid us in one year l.OOOOO0 in casb and
dividends, and the farm Itself eyenfuaiiv
became worth, on stock basis. the sum
of $5,0OO,OOO
start in the steel Business
There were so many delays on raiIroads
in those days from burned or broken
wooden bridges that L felt the dav Of
wooden bridges must end soon. lust as the
Gay OF wood-burning locomotives was end-
ca. Cast iron bridges, I thought. ought
to replace them, so l organized comma
ny principally from railroad men I knew
70 make these iron bridges, and we called
1t the keystone Bridge Works. The de
Veiopment or this new company required
my time, so l resigned from the railroad
service in 1867. / had risen from tele-
graph operator to BE- superintendent Of
the Western division / no longer drov,
a salary; from that time on was my own
master
In 1868 l returned TO England. and there
l noticed that the railroads were discard
ing iron rails and substituting steel. The
necessity for this had long been Impressed
on me, and on railroad men IN general. IN
fact, the Pennsylvania company had at
my suggestion, spent $4,000 on a process
for hardening iron rail by carbon-preciseiy
the modern Harvey process, and very good
rails they were, TOO. But on my return
from England l built at Pittsburg a plant
for the Bessemer process OF steel making.
which had not until then been operated in
this country, and started in to make steel
rails for American railroads. / bought
the Homestead works some time Ia ler
and by 1888 owned. with my associate es
the selen steel works in and about Pitts