The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04
Rapid Telegraph Brought Millions.

tary 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 This accom-
plishment softened Mr.. Carnegie'S
heart towards him. for Mr.. Carnegie
himself a splendid telegrapher, thor
oughly appreciates one. Therefore, Mr.
Moreland did not long remain an OPP
orator on the private lines connecting
the Carnegie plants with one another
and all with the New York office of the
great iron master. First thing he knew
he was rising rapidly in the steel bus
mess.
Like Mr.. Moreland, w. w. Black
burn, the present secretary and treas
urer of the Carnegie Company and also
second vice president of the Carnegie
Steel Company, started in and attract
ed attention without the aid of out
side influence. Mr.. Blackburn had been
clerk in a country store in Central
Pennsylvania before he went to the
Carnegie mills, and there he had pick
ed up knowledge of business princi-
pies that shortly caused his new en-
ployer to see evidences of splendid
business acumen in him. After that
this poor boy of a poor farmer went
forward gradually and. when Mr..
Moreland resigned the secretaryship of
the Carnegie Company. he succeeded
to the position. He and Mr.. Moreland
can truthfullv be called boy million
aires, for each is still on the shady
side of middle age.
Like the rest of Carnegie's lieuten-
ants, these two ambitious employees had
to work hard to keep the good will of
their employer and get a share of the
profits. How closely the Carnegie
group was kept down to business is
shown by the following incident:
Mr.. Moroland. when auditor of the
company, was summoned to New York
to consult with his commercial master.
At dinner Mr.. Carnegie set wine be-
fore his guest.
No, thank you, don't drink" said
Later on Mr.. Carnegie brought out
the cigars.
mo, thank you. I don't smoke" said
Mr.. Moreland.
Still later in the evening Mr.. Car
negie proposed a game of cards.
mo, 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
learn" was the reply.
Mr.. Carnegie thought a moment
Andy" he said. I'm going to give
you three months vacation, Now, for
heavens sake, go off somewhere and
learn to do something besides work"
Carnegie's First stenOgraprer's
Luck.
The Carnegie company one day ad-
VnTfi9d6
keeper. F. T. F. Lovejoy, while work
ing in laundry, had picked up a good
knowledge of accounting, and So
when he read the want ad" de-
cided to apply for the position. BY
good luck he managed to arrive at the
managers office ahead of all other
applicants, and, after a short inter-
view was given the position. The
lucidity of his balance sheets at once
attracted attention, and then, step by
step, he began rising until he attained
the secretaryship. This he held until
he took sides with Mr.. Prick in his
controversy with Mr.. Carnegie, and
then he was succeeded by Mr.. More
land. Mr.. Lovejoy is said to be in
the 100000 and over class.
H. P. Bope, who, although not quite
so young in years as Mr.. Blackburn,
is still on the sunny side of middle
age, was selected by Mr.. Carnegie to
be the company's first stenographer
because he presented a clean, keen ap-
pearance and mad the reputation
among his associates of being close Of
mouth. In this position Mr.. Bope
came into intimate and confidential
relations with Mr.. Carnegie and his
proven ability to guard business se-
crets gave him his golden opportunity,
which has Nelded him $4,000, 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 atten-
ton, he was connected with the Pitts
burg Office of a big mercantile agency.
One day he gave the CaZNegie com
pany piece of information that saved
it several thousands of 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 nine
one-thousandths of l per cent. of the
many millions of dollars involved was
lost.
A Man Who Began TrundIing Iron.
Only a few years ago William e.
Corey, president of the Carnegie Com
pany and the Carnegie Steel Company,
and frequently talked of as future
president of the United States Steel
Corporation, was pushing a wheel
barrow in the yards of one of the
Carnegie mills in Braddock He wheel
ed so much more iron in a day than
the men at his elbows that he was
soon made a foreman over them. Then
his employers 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 ac-
QUESTION and given constantly WIDEN
ing opportunities.
He worked hard studied at night to
improve his public school education.
and in time became an expert chemist
and an armor-plate authority He was
made superintendent of this mill and
that department, and invariably in
creased the output.
When Mr.. Schwab resigned to be-
come president of the Steel Trust, Mr..
Corey was the only man considered
for his successor at the head of the
Thomas Lynch. the young head of
Carnegie Company and the Carnegie
Steel Company