The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-15
SURPRISE AT PITTsBURG.
Filing of the Suit Caused n Sensa-
tion-Attorneys I'm the Case.


PITTsBURG. Feb. H.-The announce
ment in the papers to-day that the long
threatened clash of the steel kings had
been finally ~preciptated by III. c. Frick
filing the widely-heralded suit against An
drew Carnegie and the Carnegie Steel
Company. praying for an equitable &C
counting of the ex-chairman's ~stockhold-
ings in the giant steel concern. created a
sensation in financial and manufacturing
circles here and was the principal topic
throughout the city. The suit is regarded as
the most important ever filed in connection
with the steel business, and 1t is said more
money Is at stake than in any legal pro-
ceedings ever brought in this country in
which all the parties were simply citizens.
Steel manufacturers view the trouble as
a bitter personal struggle for supremacy
n are watching each move with intense
interest.
The legal talent called into action by the
suit Is an array OF the giants of the pro-
fession in this State with probable lumin-
aries OF national repute yet TO be in
cluded. On Mr.. Tricks side are John c..
Johnson. OF Philadelphia. who stands at the
perhaps OF the State, and who has been en-
gagged In some of the greatest legal battles
of the country; David L. Watson, OF Pitts
burg, an attorney scarcely less widely
hliONA anu NnOcG pIONGCS III liz ClNl
courts of the State has been proved time
and again. in cases where vast fortunes
were at stake. and, finally, Willis F.. Nc
Cook. for years the personal counselor and
intimate friend OF Mr.. Prick. whose abili-
~ in handling the affairs OF big corpora
lions has put him in the front rank at the
Allegheny county bar
Strangely enough Attorney Watson Is the
man who originally drew up the now
famous 'fronclad' agreement for Andrew
Carnegie. in which he has now been re-
tanned 10 find a flaw I'm, and nave declared
the best part OF three months in drafting
this instrument and when finished de-
clared that IL was the strongest paper of
the kind he had ever formulated.
AS yet little has come 10 light OF the
plans made by Andrew Carnegie to de-
fend his company's interests. although IL is
almost certain that Dalzell. Scott a Cor
don have been at work for days in the Car
negie defense Representative John Dali
yell. the senior member OF this law firm,
s. not I'm Pittsburg. and so far has at
tended none of the conferences which are
Mr.. Cargenie's adherents and representa-
tives In the steel company. but he will
likely take a hand before long. Other
prominent lawyers OF both this city and
New York are mentioned as having been re-
tanned by Mr.. Carnegie, but just who will
really be opposed TO the legal array on Mr..
Frick's side cannot certainly be ascer-
tanned until n day or two has passed and
answer Ia made TO the bill. Attorney Nc
Cook said to-day that be confidently ex-
pected the suit TO come to trial before mid
summer and probably much earlier.
Secretary Noreland. OF the Carnegie Stee,
Company. refused 10 talk about the suit
to-day. When the company had any,
thing 90 give out, he said, IL would come
through the regular channel. Daizell. Scott