The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-30

rs safe in the hands of my thirty-odd
young business partners. They have
assisted me greatly, and will. / am sat
lsiied. keep up the good work"
Andrew Carnegie made this diplo-
matte speech not many years ago at
farewell banquet TO the heads of his
departments in the great iron and steel
business bearing his name. Many who
the next morning read it smiled 10
themselves at what they termed more
or Andys joshing," but It did not take
iong 10 prove that the iron and steel
King, as Is usual with him, knew
whereof he spoke.
This was really the first information
given the outside world that Andrew
carnegie had any partners. They were
All young men, not a few of them on
the sunny side of thirty, but each and
all had either already made good or
did so later
since Mr.. Carnegie made this remark
many changes have taken place, and
II Is interesting just now 10 see where
some OF these young partners" are
today. When he made the remark
thirty odd" it is doubtful if the steel
baron himself knew just how many
he was including I'm this assertion. but
he had then surrounded himself with
at least two dozen bright minds I'm the
steel business, among them being
Prick, Corey, Schwab, Leishman.
Phipps, Lovejoy. Dinkey and others.
each and all Of whom have been since
heard from i'm the steel world, IL they
had not already been heard from ex-
tensively at that time.
Tyler an Insane Wanderer.
The passing of some of the "young
partners has just been recalled, and
somewhat painfully. too, by the an
nouncement that Ben G. Tyler. for
merly one of the Woodworking and
successful young partners" has gone
insane and disappeared from his home
on the outskirts OF Rochester, n. Y.
Iyler's age is 80. A reward has been
onered for information which will To-
cate the wanderer.
For years Tyler was superintendept
or Carnegie's big mills at BeHaire. o.
when little more than a lad. He was
one OF the few who on the merging OF
inc carnegie interests into the United
STATES steel corporation decided to take
his money and quit the steel game. MIR.
carnegie had long previous to this |
made General G. Tyler comparatively |
wealthy, giving him a great interest in
the business, and when the billion-dol- !
lar trust was formed the Carnegie |
stock OF this man was greatly multi |
piled and he turned it into cash. retir- |
ing 10 farm near Perry ". V
whether the sudden acquisition of
wealth., which has been estimated To 1
nave been over a million dollars. for a !
man who started as a very moor Lad l
was directly responsible for the mental |
arrangement of Tyler, is not definitely /
known, but II is the consensus of opin- |
ION ION mere mat such was the case. There /
nave been others of the favored ''voun1
partners who have not done we'll since /
tneir sudden elevation. Carnegie always
chose the poor lad to push to the front.
Frlek a RebeIIlous Young Partner.
1t must not be thought that Mr.. Car
hegie had a continuous pathway of
roses with his young partners There
were many thoTns. In very truth il
must be said that the steel king had
little else than trouble with the men
whom he set on pinnacles.
Henry Clay Frick. who has not now
been connected with the Carnegie in
.erests for some years, was the first of
Mr.. Carnegie's young partners" and
was perhaps the most unruly of the en-
tire outht. He was the only Young
partner who ever had the nerve to saw
no 10 Carnegie, and ne said il on sew
'ral dltterent occasions. chickering's in
'reasing I'm number and intensity final
" developed into row i'm which Mr.
carnegie was worsted.
Schwab's Beautiful Tenor Voice.
Perhaps the most promising of The
young partners of Mr.. Carnegie was
Charles M. Schwab. Here is one place
hat Mr.. Carnegie had real trouble
There is much unwritten history re-
sarding Carnegies dealings with
5chwab, and as they have long since
severed connections ii will bear print
ng.
The beautiful tenor voice OF Scbu,ah
md his skill i'm playing the piano first
rev the attention of Mr.. Carnegie
o Schwab when he was a lad of about
.. Mr.. Carnegie was then living at
STaddock, near the mills over which
'Bill"' Jones presided. 1T was ever a
uie of Carnegie to have a report of
very department submitted to him
It the close Of the day. He and the |
doughty Jones used TO spat so much ,
Ver things at the mills. that Jones ]
'ot in the habit of sending his reports
" some one else.
One evening he sent Schwab to Car
iegie's house with the report. and {
IL appears, looked more at
he big piano than at Mr.. Carnegie. {
The steel king asked the young mill ;
nan If he could play and, as an an {
WtIs SCnWdD went TO the piano and J
tarted i'm. He forgot all tbout Car {
egie. who was laid UP with a bad I
mike, and he burst into song. Carne-
ne Kept him playing and singing two {
lours, and the next day sent word to '
ones TO send that young fellow" I'D S
ach evening with the report. 7
And so in the course OF years Schwab | 8
vas made superintendent of the Home I
tead Steel works. becoming one of Mr..
,arnegie's young partners. When the G
Jnlted states government demanded 4
he retirement of Superintendent s
'harles Nj. Schwab OF the Homestead 4
'orks because of some bad work ON $
overnment armor plate, Mr.. Carnegie Il
beyed the mandate. but Schwab was a
ext heard Of as head of the billion '
ollar steel trust But few of the cold :
ard facts OF the armor-plate trouble
-ere printed at this time the bare fact a
hat President Cleveland had fined the /,
arnegie Steel company a cool quarter 2
a million for the wrong sort OF work n
n armor being about all that was I
lade public. =
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