Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-09

Deen watched by the
public with great interest It is enough to
say here that Mr. Dinkey has risen to new
prominence as force in big financial and
industrial affairs
Aside from the recreation on the links Of
the Pittsburgh Country Club, which golfers
Intimate brings the steel magnate to a
charge of 81, Mr.. Dnkey is known TO most
OF his associates as the student and the
man of the home His associate i'm the
steel industry, William +. Corey has TO his
record the finding" of "Rube" waddell
who first started on his climb TO the ped
estal OF fandom on the baseball team of the
Homestead steel Works Mr.. Dinl<ey has
no such record yet
AS I knew Mr. Dinkey years ago." said
a Pittsburgh steel man today, "he was the
student. His rise is indicative of the man.
Always entering new fields, eager to learn
everything that was even remotely connect
ed with his business. industry was the key
note of his life when I knew him as an
apprenticed electrical engineer"
Mr. Dnkey says he is a steel man, and
dsclaims any honors at golf.
The big Three" Go
The departure of Mr. Dinlley from the
city which has been his lifelong home adds
another chapter to the unique romance of
steel in Pittsburgh, marking the passing of
the last of the "big three" who were the
reliance of Andrew Carnegie in the days of
the business activity of the ironmaster-
Dlnlley, Schwab and Corey.
r Alva c. Dinkey is one of the giants of the
steel industry in it's technical and operating
end. His rise in the 40 years of his life is
a remarkable entry on the records of steel
making in western Pennsylvania
The man who resigned from the presi-
dency of the Carnegie Steel Company. after
filling the office for 13 years, to head the
Midvale Steel Company. succeeding Mr.
Corey, began work as a water boy in the
Edgar Thomson Steel Works. in Braddock.
Pa. From the time when he was n poor
boy, Mr.. Dinkey has risen by his own ef-
forts, following his own inclinations in the
mechanical sciences, educating himself along
these lines in particular, and specializing in
electro mechanics and inventions
His mechanical inventions number very
important appliances that have TO do with
increasing the use of electric power in mill
machinery. He was born in weatherly Pa,
February 20, 1866 the son of Reuben and
Mary Elizabeth Dinkey whose ancestors
came to America in 1743. He attended the
public schools there and in BraddoclI when
his parents moved to the latter place.
Tho first employment of the new master
in the steel industry was in the Edgar
Thomson Works where, as a water boy, 13
years old, he put in his spare tine in the
study of telegraphy. He became a telegraph
er in the company in 1888, and continued
in that work until 1885. Then he gave up
the work at the key and became a machinist
In the Pittsburgh Locomotive Works in old
Allegheny, where he remained until 1885,
Near the end of 1893 he was an expert
machinist in the McTighe Electric Company,
in Pittsburgh, and n the next year left
this work TO become the secretary to the
general superintendent of the Homestead
works Of the Carnegie Steel Company. In
1898 the call of the workshop came to him
again and he left his clerical position to
become electrician in the Homestead plant
His perseverance and industry won for him,
in 1898, the superintendency of the plant,
where ne remained until 1899 When Mr.
Dinkey entered the plant old steel r.en say,
there were only four arc lights run by cleo
tricity When he left five years later, the
shop was recognized as one of the best
equipped, electrically, In the country.
His next position up the ladder was the
rung Of assistant general superintendent Of
the Homestead Steel Works, holding the
position two years, when he was made gem
eral superintendent OF the plant, April 1,
1901. In 1903 he was appointed president of
the Carnegie Steel Company.
A Man of Many Interests
Varied interests occupy the steel magnate
He is director in the Carnegie Steel Com
pany II. C. Frick Coke Company. Bessemer
and Lake Erie Railroad, Mellon National