The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-10-05

very department submitted to him at
tae close OF the day. He and the
doughty n used to spat SO much
over things at the mills. thai Jones
got in the habit Of sending his report
oly someone else.
one eYening he sent schwab to Car
Sehwab. it appears, looked more at the
Dis piano than at Mi. Carnegie. The
steel King asked the young mill man
y ne could play. and as an answer
aehW13 Went TO the piano and started
M. re forgot all about Carnegie, who
was laid up with a bad ankle, and he
nulst INTO n Carnegie kept him
paying and singing TWO hours and the
next day sent word to Jones to send
mat Young fellow" up each evening
with the report.
And so in The course of years Schwab
was made superintendent OF the Home
stead Steel works. becoming one of Mi.
o~itrheSles young partners. When the
Dnited states government demanded
lhe retirement of superintendent
charles NJ. Schwab, Of the Homestead
works, because of some bad work ON
government almor plate. Mr.. Carnegie
obeyed the mandate. but Schwah was
next heard of as head of the billion
Collar steel trast. But few of the cold,
hafd facts of the aflnor plate trouble
We're printed at this time. the bare fact
mat President Cleveland had fined the
Carnegie Steel company a cool GUAR
ter OF Il million for the wrong sort of
work on arnlor being about oil that
was made public.
Had TO Go, hut Was Repaid.
NeWspaper men VINO We're working
on the case then still remember tine
carl spons Of Captain, aiterward
Aanli'ai, sampson tn evening the
S~oyeranent'; Homestead investigation
WAS finished at Homestead. He said
That the commission had found the
reports Of bad ar,ncr well founded;
that they had decided that Superin-
tendent Charles NJ, schwab was to
blame, and that the investigating com
mlttee would demand the immediate
resignation Of Superintendent Schwab
from the Homestead plant if the Car
neGie interests desired to retain the
government work. MI. Carnegie difn't
care very muca whether ne had q con-
tlnuahce OF the contract or rot, but
he cid want to stick to S~chwab-and
he did. He stuck to sscllwab and put
l1iEl in the biggest paying position lin
the civilized worid-tbat of che presi-
dent Of the billion Collar steel trust.
j. is not common knOw-lcd@e but it is
nevertheles true taat one OF the con-
Git.on5 under which MI. CARNEGIE al
ioweS his majority stock. to be merged
into the United States steel corpora
tion was chat he should be allowed to
name the presidents Of the United
and that = how one of his young
partners came to be ut the head of the
steel corporation, and that's how am
ether CT Carnegic's young partners
is sill az the head of the big steel
"fsan Wron, no Woman Can Touoh.v
William Ellis Corey was next in lire
80 .n,1..L a. : Il 'u1-1,n cic.E. o. ,,,,. ,a,.r
and HI vas quickly sent to the head OF
the pile when SehWab rolled off. There
are tlloss connected with the steel trust
wiio still smile when they recall the
speech Carnegie made d%ethroning
achN 40 and elcVating Corey. In part
Garne sic said: Gentlemen. ! give you
here Il man whom no woma can touch.
I nominate as president of The United
States Steel corporation William Ellis
ccrey."
IN view of the later divorce develop
nlcnts in which Corey was c~ntanglea,
the sandoff which his mentor. Mr.. Car
hcGie. gave Corey at the time of his
elevation Goes appear to have been ri
diculous. but there is nc doubt that Fir.
Carnegie believed that Corey was all
he said he was.
Lunch With John w. Gates Costly.
Another of Mr.. C~arne5ie's young
partners. who gave some trouble tic the
Iiiiu, Het VINO qua NOT SUCK long after
MIR. Carnegie got to him., is United
States Minister to Turkey John G.. A.
Leishn2an. Mr.. Leishman was once
the president of The Carnegie Steel
company. One day he Went to lunch
with John w. Gates, the Illinois steel
man. II that WAS the beginning of
the end for Leishma1, also for w. p.
Palmer. Who was assistant to Leish-
man, also one of Carnegie's young
partners, also Took his first pitch
Though that lunch. Gates, it would
seem, had Il world OF pig ircn to UNI
load IL he foisted it off on Leish,nan
and Palmer. Gates knew prices were
going to slump, but they did not.
Leisiman and Palmer had played for
a good thing for Mr.. Carnegie. but in
stead They had squeezed him. The