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


out the murder and riot charges against
the strikers. Frick and Love1oy worked
together with grit and determine ton. and
thelr friends say they are loaded for bear
in the present still hunt.
Among the partners OF the company who
came and went the most prominent is
John q. A. Leisman, now minister to
switzerland. He went to the Carnegie
company as a clerk at a GALAXY OF $50 a
month, and rose steadily until he reached
the presidency. He retired" in 1897 with
nearly $l'OOO'OO0, and is now Spending it in
SWltzerlad entertaining descendants Of
the royal blood of Europe
Another partner who went into the Car
| neg1e offices as a clerk and retired in a
few years rich was w. l. Abbott, who
preceded Prick as chairman
Henry w. Borntraeger was a German
immigrant, and his first employment with
the Carnegie concern was as a laborer
in one of the Lawrenceville mills He
rose from one position TO another until
ne became superintendent. He was ad-
mltted 10 partnership in 1886 and died seV-
eral years ago, leaving 100000.
j.. {. Phipps, the second vice president
ana treasurer of the Carnegie Company.
Is a nephew of Henry Phipps. He owns
per cent. of the stock. Personally he is
with his uncle but officially he is with
Carnegie
-
sor as secretary, is another telegrapher
He was given employment in the tele-
graphic department of Carnegie's city Of
flee in IS at a salary of $50 per month
He is now a director of both the steel
and coke companies and owns a nice
block of stock
John Walker, another of Carnegie's
early partners, who has Joined Frick by
taking the lead in court proceedings to
enJoin the Prick Coke company from sell
ing Carnegie coke at Sl.35 per ton, when
So is the market price, is one of Pitts
burgs leading millionaires. He has not
been on friendly terms with Carnegie
since the latter ousted him from the pres
idency of the company fifteen years ago,
and there are some who say Mr. Walker
takes a special delight i'm seeking Mr.
Carnegie's scalp. In his bill filed in the
county courts last week Mr. Walker
AYERS that the coke company would lose
$40OOO00 if the Carnegie contract stands.
He claims it is fraudulent and viii make
a strong legal fight to prove it.
Asr. Tricks Rise.
Henry c. Frick was born in the viii
lage of West Overton, Westmoreland
county, Pennsylvania, Dec. 10. 1S49. His
father was of Swiss ancestry. His moth
er was of German ancestry and the
daughter of Abraham Oberholt, the lead
ing distiller of his time in Southwestern
Pennsylvania. Young Frick was edu-
Gated in the country school, but his de-
sire for a practical business education
led him TO secure a position in a dry
goods store, in Mount Pleasant, Pa. Sew
eral years later he became bookkeeper
for his grandfather at Broadford, Fay
cite county, Pennsylvania, and while
there his attention was attracted to the
value of cooking the coal deposits in the
vicinity of Bradford. Coke making then
infancy
was a business with which Frck was not
familiar, but he made a thorough in
Vestigatlon of it and entered into part
nership with men in the locality. He
bought a small piece of coal land and
built about fifty ovens for the manu-
facture of coke. This was his first ven
ture and from this has grown the H. C.
Frick Coke Company, which controls
about 16, 900 of the $4,000 coke ovens in the
Connellsville district.
In 1873 he sold an interest in the bust
ness to E. NJ. Ferguson of Pittsburg. The
business continued to grow, and in 1882
the firm became known as the H. c. Prick
Company Carnegie Bros. & Co. were
large purchasers of the stock. This was
Mr.. tricks first partnership with Mr..
Carnegie.
The Carnegie and Frick companies, with
their allied interests, employ from $4,000
10 $4,000 men, upon whom are dependent
from 10000 to 100000 persons. The Car
negie Company alone pays out in wages
over 81. 500, 600 a month.
Mr. Frick has two hobbes-music and
pictures. His home is flied with the rar-
est examples of the art of painting. His
private collection of pictures is one of the
best in the country, One of the canvases
is a Dagnan Bouberet, the famous
Christ at Emmaus." This picture cost
Mr.. Frick 100000, and was presented to
the Carnegie Institute.