New-York tribune., 1919-12-03
End Comes at Home Here
After Financier Was Said
to Have Recovered From
Recent lndispositions
Had Noteworthy Career
Former Associates of Car
negie. He Later Fought
;. Him for Steel Control

Henry Clay Frick, manufacturer
financier and art collector. died at his
home. at Fifth Avenue and Seventieth
Street. yesterday morning. He had
been i'll for nearly month Of ptomaine
poisoning. week or more ago he
- seemed to be recovering. but an
= organic affection of the heart developed.
from this. also. he appeared to be
Iallying, and his condition was re-
earded satisfactory. when suddenly
the end came. His wife. SON. daughter
and daughter-in- were with him at
the time.
4 short time before his death Mr..
Trick, apparently quite comfortable.
asked his butler. Oscar Rodgers. to get
lim a glass OF water tie drank it,
said. "Now think | will so to sleep"
and almost Immediately fell into a
state of apparent exhaustion. The
butler vainly tried to rouse him, and
then summoned the members Of the
family. and his physician. DR.. Lewis
a. Connor. A few minutes later Mr..
Trick died without rcganing con-
sciousness.
Many Offer Sympathy
Many messages of coincidence were
received at the house during the day,
aMd there were also many callers.
Among the latter was Mr. Frick's init
mate friend and business associate,
John y. GrleI, cf tho firm Of c. d.
BarneE & Co. Who assumed direction
q or tho vol
dr. Gricr SAID that the Rev. Dr.
. Leighton Falks. rector of St Rartholo-
news Church, Madison Avenue and
Forty fourth Street, will have charge
o. the funeral services, which will be
held in the home Of the dead iinanciel
a. o:30 this afternoon. lNtcrmcnt will
be made in Pittsburgh Friday morning.
So only immediate members Of the dead
mans family and q few Of his most
intimatc friends present, Nh. Grier
ssdcnied an earlier report that Bishop
Charles Summer Burch would oiiiciate
Mr.. Frlck had been i'll about three
= weeks" said Mr. Gricr in discussing
x his friends death. "and up to yester-
day his condition had shown steady
improvement. He was sitting up Mon
day when | was talking 10 him.
AT the outset OF his Illness | think
Mr.. Frick and some others thought he
had ptomaine poisoning. However, il
Wa his heat that gave out finally"
1t Is a striking coincidence that The
Russian anarchist Ecrkman. who more
than twentN-seNen years ago attempted
to asSassinato Mr. Frick. after various
arrests and terms OF Imprisonment is
now awaiting deportation from the
country.
Mr.. Fricks Career
Two generations auo Daniel F1ick
was Il blacksmith in Westmoreland
County, "a. II had son named John
who was i not particularly successful
farmcA and who married Elizabeth
Overholt. daughter Of Abraham Over
holt The latter was q German. origi
nally named Oberholtzer, who hao
gone thither from Delaware and who
was prosperine as the proprietor OF
one of the largest flour mills and whis-
ky distillcrics in that part of Penn
s. lvania John trick, failing at farm
ing. entered his father n-laws employ
and thus spent the remainder of his
life
For time he was clerk in store
at Mount Pleasant. and then he became
bookkeeper for his gran father. From
the latter placo he Wen, into the otic"
OF firm of coke dealers and was sent
to Plttsburg rs their agent. That de-
tormined the whole bent OF his life
Entering the Coke Trade
At Pittsburgh he became associated
with the builders of a short railroad
tapping the coke region and made
enough out of that venture to enable
him to purchase some coke lands and
build ovens. In 1871 he formed the
firm of Frick G. Co., with A. O. Tints-
man and Joseph Rist as partners They
had 300 acres of coke land and 20C
ovens. Then came the panic of 1873
which set his neighbors to selling and
which scared his partners out Of busi-
hess. He bought out his partners md
purchased otler coke lands wherever
he could. vith tie result that the end
Of the panic found him in control of
more than l. 900 acres and nearly as
many ovens.
With the reorganization of the con-
cern into the Fl. c. Frch Coke Com
pany. in 1882, with 81 600 600 capital
MI Frck entered upon a new era in
lis business career. He admitted the
firm of Carnegie Brothers. of Pitts
burgh, into the company. and was him
snlf received into the Pittsburgh cor
poration, which was engaged in the
manufacture of steel This alliance OF
interests which were mutually depend
,nt proved highly profitable and in
Guced enormous growth. so that by
1897 the trlck company owned 35 000
acres of coal land. 10000 ovens, 80
miles of railroad and 1900 cars, and
employed II 200 men for the production
OF LOO carloads OF coke a day In
In