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stuck to the work and soon was known
as test boy or the lad who rushed
from the laboratory, with the chemists
tests, to the workmen in charge of the
immense ladies. - .t..
1t was while working here that Corey
first tired of marital relations, and it
is alleged tried to kill himself by taking
are yet in the Braddock works those
who at that time say they helped walk
the young fellow all night in order that
the poison might be shaken out of his
system. His life-savers, it is said, never
received any mark Of his appreciation.
First Met the Actress.
Shortly after this young Corey be-
came distinguished as the strongest
and most fearless swimmer in the Mo-
nongahela valley and this was a sport
in which he has ever excelled, and &C
] cording to report it was his liking for
| the water that won him the love Of Ma
belle Gilman. -.,~. -
Their first meeting was in the swim
ming pool here. four years ago, when
! there was a swimming bout in which
about thirty persons participated.
= Corey was ever an athlete. Soon at
Ter Mr.. Schwao made him superlntend-
emit Of the Homestead armor plate plans
Of the Carnegie Steel company, Corey
bIossomed out as leader of a football
team, and one season as mead Of the
baseball team, putting in much money
and time pursuing this sport.
:, Andrew Carnegie at last called the
young superintendent down and told
him he was paid for handling the af-
fairs Of the Carnegie company, not for
entering in sports.
Carnegie's Guinness.
= This stopped the young mans ardor
Once installed as head Of the Carne-
gle was we'll known. He would cut a
mans head off and let other people
ask questions. So until young Corey
was made president of the Carnegie
Steel company he did not do much open
1y in the way Of sports.
for athletics, for the curtness of Carne-
gle interests, Corey became somewhat
independent. and produced an athletic
marvel in the way of football team
the like of which was never before
seen in the athletic world. His vanity
would not permit anyone else to have q
team which nearly approached his in
excellence and he sunk small fortune
( in an organization which was really sc
good that it could not get any Other
team to stand out against it and SO had
to disband. -; Co.. e.. :.
His Own Football Team.
It was in 1891 that w. O. Temple, for
mer president of the Pittsburg baseball
team and donor Of the Temple cup, ha(
a football team that seemed goot
enough for anybody, but Corey in hi
mad jealousy announced that he woult
put one in the field that would MAKE
Temple s team, the D. G. & A. G. squad
look like lot of amateurs-and he did
but it cost him dear.
Some idea of the strength Of the foot
ball team which Corey put in the field
! in the fall of 1901 can be gathered from
the following names which appeared OF
the roster and the players were all OF
hand:
Arthur Poe, Princeton, end; Perry
Hale, Yale, end; George Brook, Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, fullback; Davit
Fultz, Brown, now with the New Yor]
American baseball team; John Gam
mons, Brown, halfback; W. B. Rich
ardson, Brown, quarterback; Overfield
University of Pennsylvania, center
with Bemis and Hawley Pierce Of Car
isle, the: famous Indian brothers
guards and with Church Of Princeton
and Weinstein and LAWYER to fill.
"s' Too Strong to Play.
This team was put up at the bes
hotel in Rittsburg and was the laughin
stock Of the valley because they wer
10 strong that no team could be pei
suaded to play it.
The salaries paid by Corey to thi
outfit were most extraordinary, Will
the revenue obtained from the fey
games they played scarcely paid for tn
shoe shines of the high-priced player:
Corey's football fad that season alon
cost him $4,000, but he did not seer
10 care, as he had lots Of money an
) spent it like a lord. - -.
It was at this juncture that W. ELL
Dorey first ran foul Of the teachings G
his family. His father, Alfred Core,
Ind his uncle, B. Corey, tried as bes
they could to get the young presider
to stop his connection with athletic
md pay strict attention to business, By
he declined to listen. It was about tn
time that he met Mabelle Gilman an
n !hen all was off at home. ~ :.
= His Work and Rise. ID.
From the coalmine Corey was tran
terred to the chemical department. (
The Edgar Thompson mills of the Ca
iegie Steel company, and with the al
s,f his wife, who had good educatio
mastered the theory Of chemistry /
studying at home in the evenings. Fro
The Thompson laboratory he was tran
.erred to the plate mills of the HON
III itead steel mills and subsequently
The order department. Of the plant.
Mr.. Corey was made superintende1
IF the plate department Of the mills /
he age Of 90 and soon after was Civ.
supervision of the open hearth depal
nent and the slabbing mill. !.
It was while in that position tn
lie put into practice the Corey refor
ng process, a method of armor pla
construction that added greatly to Il
esisting qualities Of the plate, with
decrease in weight Of the armor.
800 he was made general superinten
mt of the Homestead steel mills, t.
surrie furnace plant and the Howa
lxle works. :.
He was elected president of the C.