The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-14
FARRELL TOLD
 TO "CET 0UT'
New Head Ot Steel Trust Once Ordered From the Old
 Wire Mill

Wire Mill
 Probable That He Will Be Invited to
 One of the Annual Dinners in 1 New Haven.
 FARRELL uc.1hxvfyhBvB-9i flo | New Haven, Jan., 13.-The rise of
 James A. Farrell, the New Haven boy,
 from !aborer to president of the
 United States Steel Corporation, the 1 most gigantic of the worlds trusts,
 was the talk of the entire center of
 the city last night. Quite a number
 of well known men knew Farrell when
 he was school boy here or when he
 worked in the old New Haven Wire
 mill, gathered at one place and talk | ed over the remarkable career of the
 Fair Haven boy and it is probable
 that he will be invited to this city
 soon by one of the prominent clubs to deliver an address at the annual ban 1 Quet.
 Young Farrell was a pupil in Prin- ] cipal Avery's time and when he went | to Woolsey street school Mark Pit l man was principal. He left Woolsey
 education was purely of the gram
 mar school. Nellie Story and Miss
 Breen, now school teachers, were 1 classmates.
 | His leaving New Haven was due l primarily to a strike in the old wire l mill where he was working at the time. During the strike he went to some of the men and told them they had better go back as they were mar ried. He said he was going to get out anyway. While in the mill pack ing up some of his things one of the told him to get out. Farrell is said to have remarked: "All right, but some day I may be able to order you out" The extreme nodesty of FarrelPs boyhood cannot be exaggerated. His parents were both of hardy, thrifty, stock but could not accumulate mon ey to any extent and therefore his early leaving of school. His mother one time worked in a shop in Fair Haven and the lessons of thriftiness given by the parents apparently were not lost upon young Farrell who car ried his thrift with such great pres sure and success that it has brought him to the highest position in the in dustrial world of all nations.
 Former Councilman Donlan, of Fair Haven was one of FarrelPs class mates and has called upon him in New York He is we'll remembered by
 
 Registrar of Voters Bohan, Superin- tendent Judge of the trolley company and others.
 Everyone seems to agree that Far rell as boy and young workingman was quiet, energetic and bent upon accomplishing something in life.
 John H. Laden and Thomas Cook who are now among the oldest troll ley conductors on the local trolley system, both worked with MT. Far rell in the early eighties at the wire mill and they were jubilant when they ley, the Grand Avenue newsletter, is another of the old guard who was at the mill in those days.
 But of all who worked at the mill then. the only one who still earns. his livelihood there. at least the only J. Fogarty, a foreman in one of the departments. MT. Fogarty and MT. Farrell are nearly the same age and as youths they not only worked side by side but they were together after working hours
 Farrelrs father. Captain John Far reil. was one of the best navigators sailing out of this port and sailed some of the best ships going to the West Indies and to Chesapeake Bay.
 MT. Farrell rose from the ranks solely by his own endeavors. He be- gan life at a salary of s4.65 a week as a laborer in a wire mill. When his father grew old, as the new king of steel put it succinctly, "It' was up to me to quit school and go to work" So he began his career at the age of 16 years in a New Haven wire mill. Nine years he stayed there, doing the hardest kind of manual labor, but when he saw his chance he went to l Pittsburg and entered the mills of the | Plttsburg Wire company as a labor l CT.
 The young man did not remain a | laborer long. Soon he was elevated | to the position of superintendent, and l then became a manager. He held | the post for six years. Then he was called to the Oliver Steel Wire com- pany in Pittsburg as general manager He worked there and at Beaver Falls. | In 1903 he was asked to come to Nev York and organize the United States Steel Products Export company In that office he had charge of the cor poration's export trade, and he devef- oped that trade until it increased to a very marked degree. Steel officials have been very enthusiastic in speak ing of his activities as head of the | Steel Products Export company. E
 MT. Morgan Stays Over.
 The announcement of MT. Farrell's selection was made after the regular Tuesday meeting of the finance com mittee of the Steel Trust. All of the members of the committee were pres ent. MT. Morgan was so keenly in- terested that he cancelled his reserva- tion to sail for Europe on the liner St. Paul and postponed his sailing for two weeks so that he might be pres ent at the time of the new presidents installation. It was believed a week ago that the vacancy left by the res ignation of MT. Corey would not soon be filled. Later it developed that this policy was causing feeling of uncer- tainty among the 4,OO0 Or 5000 men who occupied high salaried and res positions in the service.
 MT. FarrelPs home is at 249 Garfield place, Brooklyn. The house is an old fashioned structure with brown stone front. He is a family man with five children, three of them boys. Two of his children are old enough to be at college and the other children att tend St. Xaviers academy on Sixth avenue, not far from the Farrell nome. MT. Farrells pastor calls him ia good practical Catholic He is a pewholder at St. Francis Xavier's church.
 Those who went to the FarreI