Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
still lacks a year of being fifty. Like the
great majority of Pittsburgs men Of money
he Is comparatively young.
Rapid telegraph Brought Millions.

SEtdl IudyOiity f-lttSbuEE men % money
he Is comparatively young.
Rapid Telegraph Brought Millions.
Andrew NJ. Moreland former secretary OF
the Carnegie Company. owes his present
financial position to his ability to send and
receive telegraph messages with lightning
like rapidity and unerring accuracy. fhis
accomplishment softened Mr.. Carneg!e's
heart toward him. for Mr.. Carnegie, himself
splendid telegrapher. thoroughly appre-
ciates one. Therefore, Mr.. Moreland Gid
not long remain an operator on the private
lines connecting the Carnegie plants with
one another and all with the New York
office Of the great ironmaster First thing
he knew he was rising rapidly in the steer
business.
Like Mr.. Moreland. w. w. Blackburn the
present secretary and treasurer of the Car
negte Company and also second vice prcsi-
dent Of the Carnegie Steel Company. start
ed In and attracted attention without the
aid of outside influence. Mr.. Blackburn
had been a clerk in a country store in CEN
tral Pennsylvania before he went to ihe
Carnegie mills. and there he had picked up
knowledge of business principles that
shortly caused his employer to see
evidences of splendid business acumen in
him. After that this poor boy OF a poor
farmer went forward gradually and, when
MI. Moreland resigned the secretaryship OF
che Carnegie Company, he succeeded 10 the
position He and Mr.. Moreland can truth
fully be called boy millionaires, for each is
still on the shady side OF middle age.
Like the rest of Carnegies lieutenants.
these two ambitious employees had to work
hard to keep the good will of their employ
er and get share of the profits. How close
ly the Carnegie group was kept down to
business is shown by the following Incl
dent:
Mr.. Moreland, when auditor of the COM
pany. was summoned to New York TO con-
suit with his commercial master. At din
ner Mr.. Carnegie set wine before his guest
/ dnr't iii s-aid Mr.
Moreland.
Later on Mr.. Carnegie brought out the
cigars.
mo, thank you, don't smoke" said Mr..
Moreland.
Still later in the evening Mr. Carnegie
proposed a game of cards.
No. thank you, don't play cards" said
Mr. Moreland.
Mr.. Carnegie looked at his guest.
Tell me why you don't do any of these
things?'' he drily requested.
you've Kept me working too hard all
these years; 1 have had no time to learn
was the reply.
Mr.. Carnegie thought moment.
ANDY he said I'm going to give YOU
a three months vacation. Now. for heav-
ems sake, go off somewhere and learn to do
something besides work"
Carnegie's First Stenographer's Luck.
The Carnegie company one day adver-
tised in the newspapers for a bookkeeper.
F. T. F. Lovejoy. while working in a
laundry, had picked up a good knowledge
of accounting, and SO, when he read the
want ad.," decided to apply for the posi-
ton. By good luck he managed to ar
rive at the managers Office ahead of all
the other applicants, and, after short
interview, was given the position The lu-
cidity of his balance sheets at once attrac-
ted attention, and then step by step he
began rising until he attained the secre-
taryship. This he held until he took sides
with Mr.. Frick in his controversy with
Mr. Carnegie, and then he was succeeded
by Mr. Morel an Mr.. Lovejoy is said to
H. 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 8
first stenographer because he presented
clean. keen appearance and had the reputa-
ton among his associates Of being close OK
mouth. In this position Mr.. Bope came in
to intimate and confidential relations with
Mr.. Carnegie and his proven ability to
guard business secrets gave him his golden
opportunity, which has yielded him
So 100000.
When Albert c. Case, now of New York.
where many of Pittsburg's moneyed men
have moved in late years, attracted Mr.:
Carnegies attention, he was connected
with the Pittsburg Office Of q big mercan-
tile agency. One day he gave the Carnegie
company a piece of information that saved
it several thousands of dollars. Shortly
to become the head of the credit depart
ment of the Carnegie plants. For five years
thereafter he handled the credits and in
that time only nine one-thousandths or one
per cent of the many mllllonS OF uoiidrs
involved was lost.
A Man Who Began Trundling Iron.
Only a few years ago William E. Corey,
president of the Carnegie Company and the
Carnegie Steel Company. and frequently
f,,f,, prasdaDf nf the limited
States Steel Corporation, was pushing
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 fore
man over them. Then his employers noticed
that he got three times as much work OUT
of his men as the other foremen ana al 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 promising
valuable acquisition and given constantly
widening opportunities.
He worked hard studied at night to i'm
prove his public school education, and In
time became an expert chemist and an ar
NOR plate authority. He was made superin-
tendent 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 ana
the Carnegie Steel Company.
Thomas Lynch, the young head OF the
worlds biggest coke company, was partly
brought forward by Mr.. Carnegie, although
Mr. Frick found him. But after the latter
had done this Mr.. Carnegie. recognizing
Mr. Lynch's worth, helped to place ad-
vancement in his way.
Mr. Lynch went to Pittsburg from coun-
try town in southwestern Pennsylvania,
where his father, hard-working lrishman,
had put him through the common school,
and started clerking in a wholesale grocery
store After a few weeks trial he was dis
charged He drifted to the little coke town
of Broad Ford near his home, and became
a clerk in the company store of o. A: Tinst-
man. who had coke ovens in the neighbor-
hood When Mr.. Prick secured the Tinst-
man property few months later he put
Mr. Lynch in charge of the store. because
forsooth, he was it's only clerk. Mr.. Lynch
made the store pay. and as result he was
told to superintend the various company
stores of his employer. Soon he was super
intendent of all the coal mines operated by
the Frick-Carnegie interests In the Con-
nellsville coke region.
Mr.. Lynch as Queller Of Riots.
About this time foreigners were brought
into the coke regions and all sorts of trou-