Evening star., 1921-02-10
$779,7666O PAID
.:7)FoRcE RETIRED
Aggregate of Pensions to
Former Employees Of U. S.
Steel Corporation.
1920 THE BANNER YEAR
Exceeds Disbursements of 1919 by
$46,059.15, Tenth Annual
Report Shows.

Report Shows.
| PITTSBURGH, February 10. An
aggregate of s77s,766.sO in pensions
was paid to retired employees OF the
United States Steel Corporation ana
| it's subsidiary companies during the
! year 1920, according to the tenth an
nual report Of the United States Steel
and Carnegie pension fund. made pub
lie here. This is $46,059.15 more than
was disbursed in 1919. and greater
! than any year since the establishment EN-
participants. 2,s40 being on the list at
| the beginning of 1920 and 324 being
added during the year. Two hundreo
and ninety-five were discontinued be-
cause of death or other causes lea'-
I ing 1859 as active participants.
| The total amount disbursed since
| the establishment of the fund is So
! SSO,5815O. and. starting with S2sl'-
457.37 that year. it has increased an
nually. the amounts being. Tor 1s1a' az
ss1f. ii.ssS.so: $3.50 1915. ss5s'sss4s; lsls,
s711.130.33; 1917, s712.506.65: 1918.
s7Os,05s.s2: 1919. s733.707.45. and for
1920, $779,T66.60. For ten years the
average age OF the pensioners Hao on rsrvice las
30.4I years, and the average payment,
| $22.10 monthly.
| Fund Established by Carnegie.
| The benefciaries make no contrlbu-
ten to the fund. The money rs de-
rived from a trust of $12,000,0oO es-
tablished by Andrew Carnegie and the
United States Steel Corporation.
| Because so many Of the corpora
| tion's activities are in the PITTSBURGH
/ 10
of the fund is distributed here. The
Carnegie Steel Company LEADS the SUD 10
sidiary companies with $16S.7l5:79,
more than $4,000 increase over the
preceding year. The Edgar thomson
Of this company with s36.ss7.17 award
! ed its retired employees, while the
Homestead plant was second with
| $35,873s0 The old mills of the COM
pany. known as the City mills receivo
| the YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, plants.
The American Steel and Wire Com
pany was second with $152,561.60, the
greatest beneficiary being the South
| works at Worcester, Mass, with WI
other plants in Connecticut. Massa-
chusetts, New York, New Jersey,
\ Pennsylvania and Illinois and the
general office and sales department
| representatives.
l Tnlrty-Onc pIdulS OIL lHc ASenh
Sheet and Tin Plate Company partic-
| ipated to the extent of $9S.324.S5::
The greatest amount to any one of
| these was $9,SS7.51 to the Aetna
Standard works at Bridgeport, ONO.
Ten plants of the National Tube Com,
sales department. received $S7.270.os.
| the largest beneficiary being the Ma
tional works at Pittsburgh with $751;
ss7.22.
Bridge Company Payments.
The American Bridge Company's
seventeen plants and general offices
received $5s.104.31,. the Pencoyd plant
at Philadelphia receiving $21,393.33.
the largest beneficiary of this COM
pany The plants are located in Con-
necticut New York. New Jersey.
Pennsylvania, Ohio. Missouri. Min
nesota and Michigan. Former en-
ployes of the old Keystone Bridge
Company. absorbed by the =, American me nc
The Illinois Steel Company partic-
ipated in $5o,2s3.62 among five plants
and the general Offices, while the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron Company had
$s.198.70 divided among eleven mines.
quarries. furnaces and works besides
partment.
Sixty-three units and the general
Offices of the H. c. Frick Coke Com
pany received s75,ls4.4s. while the
pany. a subsidiary. divided $1.o41:so
between two units. and the United
states Fuel Company Of Illinois
shared $1,422.75 with three mines.
Smaller units of the corporation
and amounts received are; me i gen
York. $500 the Lorain Steel Com
pany, johnstown. Pa. $3723.So: Uni
versal Portland Cement Company. NO.
plant s. s144oo; i",, the tvo Edsat Giant, 7ine ss
United states Steel Products Com
pany. $4,000: Carnegie Natural Gas
Company, $4,000: Union Supply Com
Pa9ys United aee sappy ap res compans a
General ofices $141.00; Pittsburgh
Limestone Company. two quarries.
;307.S0. and the Carnegie Land Com
pany, $296.40.
Iron Ore Ranges.
On the iron ore ranges of the north
west. retired employees of the oliver
ficiaries. the Gogebic range receiv-
ing S7,S1s.40: the Marquette range.
S12,46s91; tho Menominee range,
$1O.s7s.s6; the Missabe range. $5.-
s2s.s4; a total Of ,ss,152 Of
In the railroad activities seven
units received s20,s57.21. the Besse-
mer and Lake Erie railroad getting
1s.zss:7o: the Union railroad. s44s.7o;
the McKeesport Connecting railroad.
S550.80; the Newburgh and South
shore railroad, $4,000; Elgin. Joliet
and Eastern Railway Company, $5,-
314.20; Duluth and Iron Range Rail-
road Company. $1.562.S0. and the Du-
luth, Missabe and Northern Railroad
Company. $4,o74.00.
The great lakes interests of the
corporation comprising the ore trans
portation service participated to the
extent OF 5.556.55, divided among the
Pittsburgh Steamship Company with
$4.132.3o; the Pittsburgh and Come
aut Dock Company with $639.55, and
the Pennsylvania and Lake Erie Dock
Company with $8S4.70.
Men retired from general office
STATS, including the corporation gen.
eral Office at New York. were paid an
aggregate Of $17,735.45, an Increase
over the preceding year Of $8.759.45,
while retired employees Of sales de-
partments were paid $6,868.80, q de-
crease of $5,686.63.
DEMUR TO USE OF WORD.
Petitioners Think "Tuberculosis"
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