The Cairo bulletin., 1905-12-09
FINISH OF COREY
CLOSE At HAND
Superintendent Morrison viii
Succeed Him as President
MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE
OFFERED LOYAL WIFE BY HER
STANCH FRIENDS - EVEN
HIS SISTER EsPouSEs
HER CAUSE.


Pittsbur. Penn, Dec S-Thomas
Morrison. a former general superin-
tende9t of the Edgar Thompson
Works Of the United States Steel cor.
| poration, now director in the Steel
combine, will succeed VIM Ellis Corey
as president of that corporation.
When Corey admitted in New York
| yesterday thar he had reached the
conclusion he must separate from his
wife hundreds of his acquaintances
| in Pittsbnrg looked back to the years
his faithful wife had stuck to him
through adversities and poverty, and
at once predicted Corey's finish. That
he VIII be asked to resign Is fore
gone conclusion in Pittsburg, II is not
matter of speculation, steel men
say, but it is positive Corey will be
asked to get out From a representa-
tive Of the United States Steel cor
poration a representative tonight Sc
cured the announcement that Thomas
Morrison will succeed the man who
prefrs an actress to the woman who
worked hard and aided Corey to get
the education enabling him TO occupy
his present position.
A SeIf-Made Man.
Morrison Is a self-made man. al
though cousin of Andrew Carnegie,
and advanced himself from a ma
chlnist 10 the general superintendency
Of the most important plant owned
by the Steel combine On June I, 1903,
Morrison retired from the superin.
tendency of the Edgar Thompson
Works. going abroad for a year. and
when he returned he was elected a
director of the United States Steel
corporation. He is acknowledged to be
one of the most successful managers
OF the steel business today, II Morri
son will accept the position u Is be-
Iieved here that Messrs. Frick and
Gary will at once order Corey to step
down and out, and install Morrison.
who is admitted TO be more prac-
tical steel man than Corey. on cials
here a2a not protecting Corey, and
one said tonight that, If necessary, he
would demand, as a stockholder that
Corey be removed
Pittsburg society women are up in
arms against Corey's method Of dis
cardlng his wife. az they allege, Mrs
Corey, through years of adversely,
had helped him TO rise from a coal
miner to the presidency of the great.
est corporation in the world.
Mrs. Sehwab in the Lead.
Headed by Mrs Charles M Schwab.
II is said a number of women are adj
vsIng Mrs. Corey not to allow herself
to be suppanted by another woman
without putting up a fight. and assur-
ances have been sent 10 her that she
will be provided with all money neces-
sary TO carry on her battle In the
courts. here or elsewhere. and steps
to raise this fund are now quietly
being taken.
Society women here are shocked by
the Corey revelations. and that he
should undertake 10 discard his wife
for the reason she did not care so
much for moving in society as he did
and on the grounds that she hindered
his social advancement, has stunned
them.
They recall how Mrs Corey. in the
days when her husband was working
as a miner for his uncle at Braddock
at $40 month by rigid economy
boughf books on chemistry for him
and encouraged him to master them
so that finally he was enabled TO get a
position in the chemical department
of the Edgar Thompson mills Of che
Carnegie company. from which the
history of his rise and wealth com
mebces.