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

amount of money this deal cost Car
hegle has never been made known ex-
actly, but it is known the next fast
vessel from Europe brought Mr.. Car
negie in persoll-to fire Leishman and
Palmer, which he did.
Lawrence c. Phipps is another of the,
young men taken in early under the
wing of Carnegie. Lawrence was the
nephew of Henry Phipps. the old side
partner of Carnegie, and he was one
of the lads that Carnegie liked, and he
gave him n lift. He is now living in
his palace in Denver.
Phipps' Marital Troubles Hurt.
The marital troubles of Lawrence
l.hlpps hurt MIR. Carnegie, and when
me foTmer, a couple of years since.
stole his two children from New York
MOTEL and fled with them to Denver Mr..
.aillesle came to the front and tried
TO effect a settlement between Phinps
ana his beautiful wife.
u. hart Mckee, another Young and
hoe-blooded millionaire, was mixed in
tfls Ph!pps divorce affair. and this
case has been brought to MIND afresb
pS tAe ruhlor from abroad that Mrs
IeVls Mckee, who married J. Hart Nc.
Nee soon after Mrs. Phipps was di-
Nofced, is coming to America TO annlv
lor a divorce. 1t had been expected
.laat McsAee would marry Mrs. Phipps,
but he didn't. He may yet. pp'
Another of the suddc millionaireso
made so through a partnership with
.AilafeW Carnegie. and one who is etill
increasing his millions, though his
5peadlnss are large. is Alexander r.
re- saeoch, on Plttsburs and New York.
Ihe wealth of Peacock is estimated NJ
$l3,O0O,o00. He treats it as n hnge
joke, and gets more fun out of HE
money thar n other man known to-
r~lttsbufs. His sport is clean, and he.
rs fo,, a great pasc family man: Mr.; Carnegie
goods store while he and the now Mrs ,
Carnegie were shopping for her we'd
dlnS trousseau. "A certain kind of,
goods was wanted, but it was not flo
be found in New York.
Inc greatest sin a Carnegie partnor
could commit in the eyes of MIR. Car,
lltsie was gambling in stocks. He never,
e!leNed in taking II chance of that,
Gambling was what downed
Scawab and also Leishman. Andy
could never forgive Leishman for sit
ting in that pig,ron game with Cafes
and others. And Mr.. Carnegie believes
to this day. as DO others. that the
deck was stacked OH L.eishman. hrt
tnat didn't let Leishman out. Carnegie
told Leishman he had no business get
tihG mo the plsiron market as AN in
N~estinent-that the Carnegie Steel com
paily Was a maker Of steel, not a
broker shop
As Salesman Peacock Was a Bird.
TN have the goods made for yo,,
MT. Carnegie" said the bright young
head salesman. and that CAUGHT tho
heart OF Carnegie. He liked the way
the Young follow Went at things and
ne didn't waste much time lifting that
5alesalan to Plttspurg. where he put
hlM as salesman for the Carnegie COM
pany. lit wasn't long until the young
fellow showed himself a real sales
man. He landed n contract for 65,-
Geo tons of steel rails from the Cana
dian Pacific railroad, Il contract tho
firm had given up hope of getting, and
again he sold $4,000 tons of structural
steel to the builders of the New York
subway. These were the largest tive
contracts ever landed by a salesman
of the Carnegie interests.
y. T. +. Lovejoy. o. Pittsburs, and
Of Colorado Springs. is another who
Jared we'll at the hands of Mr.. Car
negic, starting in as one of the youns
partners. For many years Lovejoy
was secretary of the Carnegie Stee,
humble. Carnegie found him as a tel
egrapa operator. Carnegie always hal
q weakness for telegraph operators, a.
he started out that way himself. Love.
JOY having made his millions in iroI
md steel, is now heavily Interested Il;
mining in Colorado and in the Philip
pines. IS we'll as in giving P%ittsburs a
subway. He is president of the Pitts
burg Subway company.
Thomas Lynch. of P%ittsburs, presi.
lent of the II. C. Frick Coke company
is another of the men made by Car
negie: rather one of the men whor
Carnegie showed the way to wealth
Lynch is u native OF the Connellsviut
coke regions, having beer brought VI
in the CRIME there, and if there is aay
thing he does not know about COX.
that thing has not yet been learned b,
any one.
Weaving cotton in Africa is slow anf
difficult work. A skilled workman car