The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-12
CONCENTRATION" PERsoNlFIED.
Wherein w. E. Corey Differs From
 Schwab and Other lronmasters.

From "The Romance of Steel and Iron
 by Herbert N. Casson, in August Nun
 sey's.
 There was another young workman in the Carnegie company who followed Schwab like a shadow. He was four years younger. and his name was Will liam Ellis Corey. He was as thoroughly an. American as any one can be, being a descendant of Beniiah Corey, who flour ished a hundred years ago and owned a farm of 300 acres whose site is now covered by the streets of New York.
 schwab and Corey had been boyhood friends in smoky Braddock. when one was in a grocery store and the other was working on a coal tipple. Both got dol lar-a-day jobs from the Carnegie com pany and worked up to be superinten- dents at 21 Both married Braddock girls Both became armorplate special ists. Both made reputatons as "drivers" and record breakers. Both moved up from one presidency to another, Schwab being always one move ahead.
 But here the resemblances cease. Schwab, the last of the individualists of steel, put personality first and organiza- tion second Every business grows around a great individual," he said. Corey put the organization first and the individ ual second.
 To schwab a workman was Bill" or Joe" or "Tom" To Corey he was No. 137"
 Schwab swayed his men by sentiment, by his contagious enthusiasm, by his per- sonal knowledge of each man. Corey ruled by his tireless supervision and his thorough knowledge of every department
 Schwab was brilliant, dramatic, impul- siye. Corey was painstaking, methodical, trustworthy. On one of the very few oc- casions when he was persuaded to talk for publication, he said:
 'The man who succeeds is the one with bulldog tenacity-who never gives7up. He is the man who not only does what he Is told, but more"
 Schwab loves men and the applause of men. Publicity stimulates him like wine. Corey is reserved, stern-faced, non-mag- netic.
 Schwab is man of many interests. Even his charities are unique. He has built at Loretto, his birthplace. a cathe- dral and a monument to Prince Gallitzin. the founder of the town. To Braddock he has given a church and to Homestead an industrial school. At Richmond Beach, N. Y, he has established schools in which crippled and deformed boys and girls are learning trades. To the tene- ment children of New York he gives 5000 worth of toys as a Christmas pres ent.
 In his own pleasures, he loves display like a child. His New York palace is rated on the tax list as the second highest in cost Senator Clarix's unfinished man. sion being first. With land and furnish ings it's value is probably more than five millions Carnegie's austere residence is a model of simplicity when compared with Schwab's ornate pile of cream-colored granite. with it's gobeln tapestries. its music room and chapel, its Flemish smok- ing room Louis Seize drawing room, Henri ouarte library, Louis Quatorze dln- ing room, and Louis Treize breakfast room.
 As to where Corey lives, no one knows. The ouiet, anonymous apartment hotel from which he steps forth at twenty min utes mast 8 every weekday morning has moi vet been discovered by the Sunday press He may have his philanthropies. but they are never heard of. He has few interests. if any, outside of his office. Not only is he the president of the biggest corporation in the world-he IS part or the mechanism itself. As a Homestead roller told me, Corey never knowed any thing except his own business. He has sunk himself, his personal likes and dis likes. in the socalized steel business. He feels himself to be a fraction, rather than a unit His corporation is an organism like a human body. and he is the CO., ordinating function of it's brain.