The Washington herald., 1908-03-29

EHEN you were school child you wrote IN
" your copybook quite often, no doubt,
that familiar line a friend in need is
a friend indeed" And YOU probably regarded it
as merely copybook pleasantly.
Have you ever had occasion to test the truism
in later life? Suppose, for instance, that YOU had
just completed beautiful home that was to be the
pride and comfort of your declining years, and
that through unexpected misfortune it had fallen
into the hands of the sheriff and was to be sold.
Perhaps YOU would endeayor to bear your
trouble manfully and face the world bravelv. but
the heart would be sore. Then, in the darkest
hour, suppose two old friends, learning of your
straits, although you never had thought of appeal
ing to them, voluntarily and quietly came to your
relief, saved your home, and made it possible for
you to resume business with confidence and capital
y-wouldnt you conclude that the old copybook
text was about the truest thing you had learned
in childhood?
That was what Francis T. F. Lovejoy, of Pitts
burg, learned recently And in his heart, here
after he will probably always couple the old copy
book text with the names of Andrew Carnegie and
Charles NJ. Schwab
ONE OF "CARNEGIE'S YOUNG MEN"
1t 4 latter-day ups and downs that led
Lovejoy a realization the truth the copybook
words. And all along the way been chapters
OF the remarkable about careers OF
'Carnegies young men"
Beginning life in humble capacity, before he had
reached middle age, he accounted rich man.
PittsbuTg wonderful OF millionaires
Then the wheel OF fortune a turn, and
stared him in the face Many less viii
ability would have been discouraged but the pupil and
former of the worlds steel king rageousy
faced the conditions. But the seemed dark
until Carnegie and Schwab 20 the
is freely predicted by his friends that Mr. Lovejoy
will speedily regain lost ground, and Will take
his place among the countrys OF great wealth But
that has nothing TO do wiki this story.
Its beginning back the when Mr.. Carnegie,
king of the steel world pursuing his unique policy
OF promoting the hardest working and promising of
his young and making them his partners
He had gathered these into the bust
university of his steel works from almost every walk
and vocation Of life
Charles NJ schwab was clerking in Braddock grocery
store when Capt "Bll Jones' Carnegie superintendent
discovered him and him job driving stakes for
dollar a day at the Edgar Thomson works.
AT the age of thirty years he was superintendent of
both the Edgar Thomson and Homestead plants with
under his management.
When sixteen years old A C. Dinkey learned teleg.
raphy little station Braddock while w E. Corey
was working on a coal tlppLe John A e. Leishman now
United States Minister Turkey, gained his first knowl-
edge c. life in Ptsburg orphan asylum, first
A. R Peacock taken into Mr Carnegies employ
from behind New York dry goods counter Emil
in 1852 bricklayers helper d. Clemson got
the good Mr. Carnegie and, consequently his mil
lions. because he could shoe horse we'll and wasn't
afraid Of work.
his ability 70 send and receive telegraph messages with
: hghtnng-ike rapidty and with accuracy while w W.
Blackburn and Thomas Lynch began careers
clerks in stores
And so one might go on through the long list OF young
men who were taken up by Mr. Carnegie and given the
chance which they promptly seized. win fortune
fame in the business world