Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-26

| never assumed It, but rather inclined e
taking the side of the weaker youths
whenever that could be done without
the appearance Of interference, fol
Leishman has ever been stickler foi
attending strictly to his own business.
This Characteristic stood him In good
stead after he had become d power IN
the manufacturing world. Any one at
all familiar with Leishman's relations
with Carnegie and Prick can readily
understand that II must have required
tact Of a high order to avoid the neces.
sity Of siding with either OF the two
magnates when differences arose be-
tween them But Leishman did II and
also succeeded I'm retaining the friend
ship Of both Carnegie ana Frlck lie IL
to this day held up by them as an ex-
ample of all that the high salarled con-
servator Of vast manufacturing inter-
ests should be-
II is related OF Mr.. I.elshman that
time and again as he and his fellow in
mates Of the orphans home passed
through the streets OF Pittsburg on the
walks that gave them their one well
come diversion from The routine Of the
asylum life he would look up at the
handsome residences and substantial
business houses Of the great manufac-
turing center and vow that some day
he himself would be a merchant King.
But as often as he made this vow so Of
ten would the bitter thought recur that
he could never count on the world to
give him helping hand and that there
was no place In the scheme OF the uni
verse for helpless ones like himself. out
OF this dependency, however, grew the
determination 10 overcome all obsta-
cles, His first step In the direction of
self emancipation came when doctor
who had shown a friendly interest in
him offered him a position rs boy.
Gladly shaking from his feet the dust
Of the orphan asylum and discarding
for all time the somber uniform OF the
institution in which he had first learned
how to adapt himself to his environ.
ment, he leaped az the Doctors offer.
and never did physician have a more
willing or Industrious seryitor
All the time he was carrying mes
sages and answering calls young I.eish-
man kept his eyes open and was al
ways on the lookout for q means OF
lettering his prospects IN llfc not that
he was afflicted with the nomad in
stincts found in so many lads brought
up as he had been but merely that he
realized that his ambition to become an
industrial monarch could never be re-
allied in the sphere In which he then
moved, So II came about that, learning
one day that there was vacancy In
the Office Of the schoenberger steel
works, the whllom orphan asylum boy
applied for the position.
His new employers soon found that
they had secured youth of much
promise. Always ready TO perform
cheerfuly any task allotted to him and,
above all, studiously inclined and indie
In learning the details OF the
business, young Lelshman waxed high
in favor with the officials Of the con-
Germ. Surely, however slowly, he was
advanced from one position to another
Then occurred an incident which was
to mean much to him. Part Of his du-
ties consisted in bringing from a bank
to the steel works the pay roll money
and one day a man acquainted with
this fact made desperate assault upon
him. Despite being physically the IN.