The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-24

aires-sOme of His Most Trusted
Advisers Telegraph ers
Pittsburg Correspondence of Cleveland
Leader.
The great fight between Henry Clay
Frick and Andrew Carnegie has attracted
the eyes of the whole commercial world
TO the two men. In this battle for mill
ions and millions, the other men concern
ed have well nigh been lost sight of, and
yet there are twenty-five or thirty of them.
Nh Carnegie always refers to them as
my thirty young partners" He holds
the controlling stock, but they have Jared
exceedingly well. Mr.. Carnegie believes
in young blood and brain. He is willing
to pay ID well but none knows how to use
it better than he. OF his thirty old part
ners, one and all, like Carnegie himself,
rose from the ranks of struggling clerks,
brains and energy being their sole capt.
tai.
Henry Phipps, who owns II per cent. of
the steel company's works, his subscrip-
tion being 81, 750,0O0 and who is now allied
with the Prick forces, was one of Mr..
Carnegie's earliest and most trusted part
ners. He is the son of a poor shoemaker
in Allegheny City, where he was born and
raised. His first employment was as clerk
for transfer firm. His acquaintance with
Andrew Carnegie began at a meeting of
q young peoples debating society, of
which Carnegie was the leading spirit
Phipps formed a partnership with
Thomas N. Miller in the iron business.
They disagreed, and Phipps appealed to
Carnegie for aid Carnegie bought an in
terest in the business. To a friend he
wrote a the time that he had gone into
the iron business against his will to save
a friend. Phipps continued in the firm,
and has been CarnegieS steadfast friend
for thirty-seven years. By the irony of
fate Phipps, whom Carnegie saved and
made a millionaire many time over has
now turned against Carnegie and taken
sides with Prick. Phipps' friends claim,
however, that il was Phipps who made
Carnegie, as Carnegie only went into the
iron business at Phipps' earnest solicita-
ton
Three People Carnegie Loved.
There used to be a saying in Pittsburg
that there We're three persons in the world
that Andrew Carnegie loved-hs wife,
Henry Phipps and George Lauder.
Lauder is one of the consulting partners
in the firm and owns per cent. of the
stock This, at Tricks valuation, would
be worth about $10000,000. Lauder is
Scotehman who came to this country
about the same time as Andrew Carnegie.
He began as clerk and was admitted
as a partner in the Carnegie concerns
when the firm of Carnegie &, Bro. was
formed in 1871 When the Frick-Carnegie
war broke out Lauder sailed for Europe
to be away from the strife, and is still
there.
c. NJ. Schwab president of the Carne-
gle Company, was born in the village of
11ff,rv t1.1Y,.~ oh.
ents moved TO Loretto, where his father
owner stage line. Young Schwab was
educated in st. Francis College, at Lo-
retto, and when 19 got job as clerk in
store al Braddock, near the Carnegie
mills. Soon afterward he entered the
mills, also as clerk He had a talent
for mechanical drawing that attracted
the attention OF w. R. Jones, the mana
ger of the mills, who sent the youngster
to a Pittsburg night school,
Schwabs first position of prominence
was assistant engineer at Braddock. He
shortly became chief engineer. He plan
ned the immense blast furnace plant of
the Carnegie Company at Braddock. and
the new mill which became famous all
over the world If Frick wins his suit
Schwabs interest will be worth $1,000,
600. He gets a salary of $4,000 year as
president.
President of the Company.
Last fall Mr.. Schwab returned to the
mountain town of Loretto, where Prince
Galitzin, 100 years before, first planted
the seeds of Cathoicity i'm Western
Pennsylvania, and presided over the only
Catholic church between Harrisburg and
st Louis. There. amidst bOyhOod
scenes, Carnegie's rght-hand man, wit
messed the unveiiing of a $4,000 monu-
ment in honor of the noted Russian. for
which he paid. on the same day with
tho C.nuarDoV IF T1anucNyIxyania
tinelli, Romes representative in the Unit
ed States and the noted Archbishop Ire
land. grouped about him on the platform
facing Gallitzn's statue, Mr. Schwab an
nounced that he would build the noun
taineers a $780, 600 edifice on the spot where
the Prince-priest first said mass in a
log cabin. The church is now being built.
Henry NJ Curry has a 2 per cent. in
terest in the company. He was a clerk
at the Lucy furnaces in the 70s, and
some time later was admitted to the
firm. He has been in i'll heath for some
Years. Mr.. Carnegie retired him with
Mr. Frick. The shock had such effect on
Mr. Curry that he took to his bed the
day he was retired and several times
since has been reported as dying
Teegraphers are much sought after In
the great concern, judging from the num-
bar that have gained positions of import
ance In It. Carnegie was a telegrapher,
and is a charter member Of the Old Time
Teegraphers' Association of the United
States.
Some of the photographers.
Frances r. f. Lovejoy who resigned the
secretaryshp in consequence of Tricks
retirement is a telegra pher He went 10
the Carnegie concern in 1880 as an opera
tor at a salary Of $35 month. His sub
scription in the Carnegie company
amounts 10 1888, 800 His salary was $1,000
year. In the present issue Mr. Lovejoy
is heart and soul with Mr.. Frick In the
bloody days of the Homestead strike Mr..
Lcyeioy was the mouthpece of the Car
negle company, and 1t was he who swore