The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-02
STEEL MACNAIg
FRICk lEAD.
Passes Away This Morning Of
Ptomaine Poisoning at His
Home in New York
City.
ONE OF RICHEST MEN
Was Hated by Radicals for His Bitter
Fight to Break Homestead
Strike In Year
1892.

L oAktCu ICoS ACetSCu WIZ J0AV
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Henry Clay
ptomaine poisoning.
Frick was seventy years old. He
had been Ill for several days.
The end came suddenly at five
o'clock this morning at Frick's home.
Fifth avenue and Seventeen street.
his physician. DR.. John S. Connors an
nounced.
When Frick retired from business
several years ago, he was known as
one of the nine or ten richest men in
the United States and one Of the most
Influential in the business world.
An associate of the late Andrew
Carnegie, he early laid the basis of his
tremendous fortune ASA flour miller
and distiller. Later he entered the
coke business and from this developed
the H. C. Frick company, which be-.
came the largest coke producing firm
in the world with 10000 acres Of hold
ings in the Pennsylvania coal fields
and $4,000 coke ovens with daily ca
pacity Of $4,000 tons
Frick came prominently into the
public eye in 1892, during the famous
steel strike at Homestead, Pa. when
he was shot and stabbed several
times by one OF the strikers.
He was chairman of the board of
directors of the firm of Carnegie
Brothers from 1889 to 1892 and later
was made chairman of the board OF
managers of the Carnegie Steel COM
pany. He was at one time director
of the Pennsylvania Railway COM
pany, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe; the Chicago and Northwestern;
the United States Steel corporation.
the Melton National bank OF Pitts
burgh; The Union Trust Co.; and the
Norfolk and Western railway.
Alexander Berkman, the anarchist,
who shot and stabbed Frick at Home
stead, and served thirteen years in the
penitentiary for his crime, became
one of the most widely known labor
agitators.
Berkman who has been closely asso-
ciated with Emma Goldman is near
deportation.
Frick's bitter fight to break the
Homestead strike made him one of the
employers most hated by radicals.
The manufacturers retirement
eight years ago created stir in the
lludACldl WI ~ SelihO oocAA eeA va
the retirement of his associate, Car
three were at that time the foremost
leaders in American finance
Frick was said to be in the best Of
health at the time of his retirement
and considerable surprise was ex-
pressed that he should quit active work
at the comparatively early age OF 62
1t was reported at that time he was
the wealthiest man with the sole eX-
ception of Rockefeller in the United
States and probably in the world.
He was known as one of the great
est art collectors in the world His
collection when he retired was esti-
mated as worth millions. He was
said to have paid 100000 for a single
picture.
Frick had the reputation Of being
silent enough to deserve the name
Sphynx. He was extremely success
full in avoiding publicity although
the guiding genius in a score of great
industrial, railroad and financial
organizations.
The United States Steel corpora
tion's success in preventing unioniza-
ton OF its labor was attributed
largely to Frick's untiring fgnt
against organization of the steel in
dustry by the American Federation
iof Labor. The attitude of Judge
Gary in refusing to treat with union
representatives. recently was said to
be merely following out of the
early policies of Frics.
The funeral will be private and
will be held at the residence on
Thursday The place of burial has
not yet been announced.
Fricks two children Helen K and
Charles, arrived at the residence to-
day from their Long Island homes.
The grandchildren remained at home.
Frick was born in West Overton
Pa, Dec, 10. 1S49, son Of John w
and Elizabeth Overholt Frick. He
married Adelaide Howard, daughter
of the late Asa F. Childs, of Pitts.
burgh. December 10. 1881. His
daughter. Miss Helen Frick, was
prominent in war work.
Frick was prominent in the affairs