Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-04

yersy with Mr.. Carnegie, and then he was
succeeded by Mr.. Moroland. Mr.. Lovcjoy
is said to be in the $40, OO0, 600 and over
class.
II. p. Bope. who, although not quite so
young in years as Mr.. Blackburn, is still
on the sunny side of middle age, was Sc
lected by Mr.. Carnegie to be the company's
first stenographer because he presented "A
clean. keen appearance and had the reputa-
ton among his associates of being close of
mouth. In this position MIR. BOpe came into
intimate and confidential relations with Mr..
Carnegie and his proven ability TO guard
business secrets gave him his golden oppor-
tunity, which has yielded him 81, 600.
when Albert c. Case, now of New York,
where many of Pittsburg's moneyed men
have moved in late years, attracted Mr..
Carnegie's attention, he was connected with
the Pittsburg office of a big mercantile
agency. One day he gave the Carnegie com
pany a piece of information that saved 1t
several thousand dollars. Shortly after that
he was asked how he would like to become
the head of the credit department Of the
Carnegie plants. For five years thereafter
he handled the credits and in that time
only 9-1OOOths of l per cent of the millions
of dollars involved was lost.
Only a few years ago William Il. Corey,
president of the Carnegie company and the
Carnegie Steel company and frequently
talked of as a future president OF the
United States Steel corporation, was push
ing a wheelbarrow in the yards of one Of
the Carnegie mills in Braddock. He
wheeled so much more iron In a day than
the men at his elbows that he was soon
made a foreman over them. Then his en-
ployers noticed that he got three times as
much work out of his men as the other
foremen and at the same time the men
worked harder without any grumbling and
swore by their new and youthful boss.
Corey was straightway picked out by Mr..
Carnegie as a promising valuable acquisi-
ton and given constantly widening oppoF-
t%unities.
He worked hard, studied at night TO i'm
prove his public school education and in
time became an expert chemist and armor
plate authority, He was made superintend-
Cnt of this mill and that department and
invariably increased the output.
When Mr.. Schwab resigned to become
president of the steel trust Mr.. Corey was
the only man considered for his successor
at the head Of the Carnegie company anC
the Carnegie Steel company.
Thomas Lynch, the young head OF tn
worlds biggest coke company, was partl!
brought forward by MT. carnegie, alIhouBl
Mr.. Frick found him. But after the latte
had done this, Mr.. Carnegie, recognizinI
Mr.. Lynch's worth, helped to place advance
ment in his way.
Mr.. Lynch went to Pittsburg from
country town in southwestern Pennsyl
vania, where his father, a hard workin
Irishman, had put him through the com
mon school and started clerking in
wholesale grocery store. After a fe
weeks trial he was discharged. He drifte
to the little coke town of Broad Fore
near his home, and became a clerk in III
company store OF O. A. Tinstman, who Ia
coke ovens In the neighbCrhood. When NJ
Frick secured the Tinstman property a fe
months later he put Mr.. Lynch in chars
Of the store because, fOTsooth, he was |
only clerk. Mr.. Lynch made the store pr
and as a result he was told to superinteI
the various company stores of his Ell
ployer. Soon he was superintendent Of
the coal mines operated by the Eric
Carnegie interests in the Connellsyille co
region.
About this time foreigners were broug
into the coke regions and all sorts
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