The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-03

'fr Prick was stabbed three times. .bug he downed his assaiIant and held Jim until the police arrived. Berk- |man was tried and sent 10 the West. |nn penitentary in Pittsburgh for .rwonty-one years.
 Thirteen days after the attack MT. Prick walked to his office unattended and resumed the direction of the great |strike which continued until Noyem- ber 21 of that year MT. Prick was |unmoyed by the violence, the protests or the public or the distress of the families of the strikers. He won land never begrudged the price of vic tory.
 When Mr Prick entered the Car |negie Steel company he decided to make it the most powerful concern lin the steel world. Two of his i'm mediate ventures netted the Carnegie |concern many millions of dollars |without scarcely any investment. 1 Up 10 this time the switching charges between the various Carnegie plants had been very profitable to the railroads and expensive to the CaIne. ! gie company Mir Prick built the Union railroad to weld the scattered Carnegie plants closer together This eliminated the switching charges and saved enormous sums for the Carnc gie company
 If was Mr Prick who later took over a large portion of the Mesabi ore fields on Luke Superior in a big I-al that guaranteed the Carnegie |company for fifty years a minimum annual supply of 100000 tons or ore
 laiytng a shrewd bargain with the RiskefeIIers who owned these ore lands
 Later Nr Prick conceived the prop, ostrion of buying out Mr. Carnegie en- Iurely, and in association with Henry | Phipps. the second largest owner of stocks. and with the cooperation of
 '. H Moore and others. MT. Prick asked Mir, Carnegie for an option OF l his interests. Mr. Carnegie demand ed $1OOO,OOO for a ninety-day option and named $15795O0O0 in cash ana bonds for his entire holding. This price with the additioal cost of the stock of the other partners in the Carnegie company brot the cost of Mr Tricks scheme close to S25O. OOO.- 900. The matter was taken to J. P Morgan, who was not impressed with the idea. The plan collapsed, MT .rlsk.s option expiring at cost of d million dollars which Mir Carnegie |pocketed. This was the first failure MT. Prick had ever known. but it was Q a blow to Mir Carnegie for the failure of the Prick syndicate left him in the position of having been on the market with his holdings which l. apparently could not be sold
 Mr Carnegie became very bitter and tried to oust MT. Prick entirely rom the steel business They de yeIoped a quarrel with many ramt- Gcations MT. Carnegie sought to have the board of managers declare Mr. Tricks stock forfeited at par val ue. MT Prick replied with suit for Ian injunction to prevent this confis- cation of his stock, but the case was fnalIy settled out of court by the Reorganization of the Carnegie com | Ipany which made several Pitts | burghers millionaires oyer night T. made Mir Prick one of the wealthiesI Imen in the country, but it was dis l Iappointing to him later when Carne- 1 gie with the aid of Charles M. Schwab succeeded in interesting MT. Morgan in the scheme he had previously re iected and out of this interes, came ! the financing of the United States | Steel corporation in 1901 By this |again, MT Tricks fortune was doubl ed His $31OOO00O investment ID the Carnegie company was turned into $61 100000 in the United States l Steel corporation, altho Carnegie had Istolen his thunder. MT. SchWab was made president of the steel corpora- ton and Mir Carnegie's representa- 1 tive in that concern.
 In 1903 times became hard and Unit 1 ed States Steel dropped to a low level.
 Mr. Prick then bot everything he could in the way of steel stock and
 when the excitement was over it was found he had acquired enough to be a power in that concern. His first move was to dethrone MT. Schwab as president, but W. E. Corey, another Carnegie man, succeeded Schwab Then MT. Prick attack e Corey and succeeded in having him removed. MT. Farrell, Tricks friend, was finally made president Of the
 
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