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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1900.
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JONAS LONG'S SONS.
JONAS LONG'S SONS.
JONAS LONG'S SONS.
JONAS LONG'S SONS.
JONAS LONG'S SONS.
JONAS LONQ'S SONS.
JONAS LONQ'S SONS.
Never Before Has a Store Been so Crowded as Here Yesterday.
At Nine O'clock a Great Army of Buyers Took Posses
sion of Every Floor and Enthusiastic Purchasing
Has Characterized Every Moment of the
r., "ritiWWT v -T I m 1
First
To History Every Day Now,
Will Be Added New Records for Big
Sales. There Will Be No Let-up Until Every
Dollar's Worth of the Gigantic $75,000.00 Stock Has
Been Disposed Of. This Is the Opportunity of a Lifetime to
Buy
WE CANNOT advertise prices as yet and do justice to you lots are
so quickly disposed of. Some things hardly reach the counters
before they are claimed by eager buyers. Something is always ready,
however,' to take the place of any item sold out.
As to Deliveries.
Whenever convenient, we advise that you take small parcels with
you. It will facilitate our service, which, though greatly augmented, is
taxed to its utmost.
Special delivery service between Scranton, Carbondale, Wilkes-Barre
and intermediate points, every day.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
AND HENRY PRICK
CAREERS OF TWO RIVAL IRON
KINGS.
Both Boin Poor but Lucky How
Carnegie Rose with tho Help of
Wealthy Fiiends and How Flick
Profited by His Opportunities and
Natural Shiewdness A Page of
Biogiaphy That Is Instiuctive.
1'rom tho Chicago Time'. Herald.
The 11 fo stoiy ot Andiew Camegle
and lit ni y Clay Frlck Is ono of two
men suddenly bi might Into Juxtaposi
tion with vast nutm.il icsouices, jot
unconti oiled 1 capital, and aided
thtough legislation and the encomage
nient ot wealthy friends to bociuo it
pi .ictlial monopoly ot tho steel coal
und toko business of a nation or 80,000,
11OO people. Theu does not appear to
have been a moment In tho llfo of
cither inun when a fliend witfe lacked,
mid that filond nlwa.vs had money,
in his Tiiuiiiphant Deniociacv" and
all else that hu has wtllten about tue
eoss in llfo Mi. Carnegie piosentb no
1 ults of c oniluc t for the pom oung
man to become wealthy and huceessful
who Is not located at the outset next
to a coal in. 111, a lolling mill or a coke
oxen. His tiend of argument ahas
presupposes that opportunity exists.
Mr. CuiiprIp was boin In Dunfei in
line, Scotland, thliteen miles from
Hdlnbuinh. In 1S3'. and Ml. 1'ilcU wns
born In "West Ovrton. Pa., In 1SI9.
Neither was surrounded In outh by
ppiimy and want, and the ptactlco of
' ordinal y economics brought to ene'i
t onslderable sums of money long be
foiG they ic.cchcd their majoilty. Tin
pelf-sacrltltes mcessaiy In a llfo such
as Lincoln's woi not piesent In theii
own. In fact, their caieers in tho cws
of youth aio quite similar to those
thrifty ones of tho elder Vunderbllt or
John Jacob Astor.
CAitNnonvs father.
William Carnegie, father of the steel
kins, was a itueoessful master weaver.
The mother was always close to tho
home, and found time to Instruct her
children In leading, wilting and cipher
ing. Andieu's first ambition was to be
a mastet weaver, afteiward lit wished
to be an editor, and later ho was con
tent with tho mere occupation of ac
cumulating wtiftth.
Ho was between ten und twelve eam
old when his family icnioved to Amer
ica nnd settled in Pittsburg, which al
leady gave promlso of becoming a
mauutactuilng center. Hut steam looms
were coming: into use and made It dim
ult for his father to maintain his posi
Day of "The
Good
JONAS LONG'S SONS
tion as an independent woavci. Tho
boy bad to llnd wotk in order to pio
xhle buppoit for himself. Tho local
telegiaph company needed mebbongei
bo.s, and Andiew was engaged as one
at $""0 per week, wages nelthei small
nor laige as compaicd Willi what an
untialned boy of his ago may earn to
day. Of this woik he wiote himself long
uftuw.ud:
"Now that I'd got my job I was on
thorns for fear 1 couldn't keep it. I
Know nothing about the bluets of
l'ittsbuig and the business houses to
which I had to deliver messages So X
stalled In and learned all of tho ad-dioh'-es
by heait, up one side uf Wood
stieet and down tho other. Then I
leuined the other business streets In tho
saniu way. Then I felt safe."
BECAME A TELCCRAPlflin.
Spending all ot his time ntound tele
giaph liistiumeiits, xuuns Camegle
sought to leal n the m.vsteileb of teleg
iaph j. Ho was soon able to lead mes
sages 1 eat and latei to bend them.
He became a "sub" operator and then
,i legal ji one at a b.ilaiy ot $ij per
month. Ho and his brother suppoited
the family aflei tho death of his tutht r
lit l&.'l and managed to sao money at
the b.uue time.
Thomiib A. Scott was building tho
Ponnvlvania lallioad at this time into
l'ittsbuig and held a position as su
petlntendent of that end of tho mad.
He unl the local telegiaph office a
gi cat deal, and by chance most of his
messages weio bent through oun't
Carnegie's hands, This lid to a friend
chip between the two wh'ih did not
tei initiate until tho death of Ml. Scott.
At tho outset l,o mu do the joung man,
then 19, his pi hate opeiatoi with a
salai ot y,' per month. Fiom Mr.
Scott's pilote telegraph operator ho
beconio his pi'.vato secutany and work
ed' with him and under him and J.
1Mb ti Thomson fot thirteen rats.
f i om 1S34 to 1C7.
rtUCIC'S START.
During tho Hist fouitcn je.us ot
Mi CainegUt's llfo Mr. Filuk was not
In existence, but was boin about tho
tlmo the foimei started as a telegiapli
missenger boy. His father was a
Swiss and his mother an Qhciholtrcr
of the Palitlnate. On his mother'a
side foi four gene rations his peoplo
Pave been Pennsvlvantans. The mmt
conspicuous bianeh of tho family un
til young Frlcl: forged to the fiont
was tho Oveiholt wing, which com
menced tho distilling of whiskey In
1S10 Utter it took to. making flour,
rtock i.ilslng and tho buying of Jhn1,
and wis wealthy when Mr. Flick niadT
his appeal anee.
Ho leslded during Ms outh with
iclatlvcs who were hinkors. was giv
en eleitial employment by other toll
lives, attended Westmoielind collegj
and Ottei belli unlcr?lt. Ho did not
lack for nnn'y nor for oppoitunlty to
wot):. He xx us frugal and acquisitive
Goods at Less
and keen for the main chance. His
lomily had intermairled with tho Mc
Counlekb, of lliondfoid, and these Me
Cormieks were the pioneer! in tho coko
industry ot westoin Pennsylvania
AVhen the junior Frlc'.c came to woik
in theli midst ho possebfeJ .ionic money
and a deep faith that his foitune wis
to be found In coke production. As a
tesult he puiehabod lift;' oens, foim
ed l ai tnei ships, and was successful
fiom tho htait. He was worth a gieat
deal moio money at it than Mr. Car
negie had been, and wn fast becom
ing tho master of the famous coke ro
glon of Connellsvllle.
A NAPOLEON IX BUSINESS.
Ills speed of advancement was ac
eeleiated bj tho misfortunes ot two
other men who weio competitors with
him In the coke fleldb. They weio
Tlntsman and Shetrick. They ovet
bpeculateil, di earned of a world of coke,
and awoko to find a world of due bills
piesblng upon 'them. Theli ciedltois
and tho Mieilif fell upon them and
foieed sales of theii property followed.
.Mi. Filck was the principal piuchabor
He seemed thousands upon thousands
of ncics of valuable coal lands for nom
inal tlguies. At 2u ho owned at Mote
wood the llncst and most elaborately
constiuetod coke plant In the world.
When ho could not buy a eoko plant
ho leased lt. If he could not buy oi
h aso he lutiodiiccel a kind ot competi
tion tint dtove his ilvals to despair
and out of the business.
ltetause otheis had failed It was
fieel pi edloted that ho would Hut
he did not. He kept adding and add
ing to his ptoputlo.s. Ho oiganlzcd
the H. C. Filck & Company Coke com
pany and liter tho H. C. Flick Coko
company, He was then master of the
coke legions ot Ponnslvanla and a
man whom steel and lion manufaetui
ei s needed to cultivate. Ho vwis known
to bo cold, slncwd, haul-headed, un
folding an Ideal commeiclal finan
cier a pel feet manager.
Mr. Carnegie knew ot him. Mr. Car
negie needed him, The two came to
gether, and they have remained to
gether ever since, until Dec. li, 1809.
c.YRxnau: and tom scott.
Mi. Camegle was not Idle after tho
friendship of "Tom" Scott came to him.
Let him tell ono ot his exploits him
self: "One moinlng Mr. Scott was a little
lato getting to the olllco and there had
bten an neeident on the eastern divis
ion. To the best of iny recollection a
bildgo hud been buined or washed
away, and tho through express was
away behind time. Theio was only ono
tinck and tho ft eight trains weio on
all tho sidings along our'western divis
ion watting foi the express, which hail
the light of way. 1 gleaned tho situa
tion front the telegrams I found and
sat down at once to do what I know
Mr, Scott would do If ho weie there.
I wlied tho conductor of the express
that I was going to give 'the freight
Leader" Bankrupt
tialns thiee houis and foity minutes
of his time, and told hi in to answer mo
so that I might know ho understood
the Munition. He answeied mo that he
did. I then wlud to the conductor of
each fielnht tialn and started the
whole string of them, lively telegram
was signed 'Thomas A. Scott."
"Fies-ently Ml. Seott, who had heard
about the tialns being lato and an
accident on tho load, came huirledly
In and sat down to the pile of tele
gianib. " 'Heie it is 1 o'clock,' he said, 'and
the express not in, nnd the fi eights
hung up, and the devil to pay. Wire'
" 'nxcusij me, Mi. Scott,' said I, 'I
wited tho otdets 1 thought jou would
send. Heie aio tho telegiams, and i
think jou'll llnd the thiough fi eight
alieady In the auls.'
"Ho looked bird at me and never
said a woid. A few das passed. One
moinlng J. Fdgar Thomson, tho presi
dent, came Into out olllco In Pittsburg.
I felt a hand on my shouldei and
looked up.
" 'Is thin Andy?' he asked.
"Ves. sir,' said I.
"'Well,' Bald he, Tvo been heating
about ou, Scott told us the other
night about what that little Scotch
dev II of his had been doing.' "
I.UCKV INVESTMENTS.
Piosldent Thomson, was Camegle'
fileiui ii om that tirpc on, ana Mr.
Scott liked him bottei than ever. It
was the lattei who gavo him on op
poitunlty to buy ten shares ot Adams
Hxpiebs company btock, then worth
$o(J a slioio and palng 1 ppr oent
month. Ho beevued tho money by
mortgaging his mother's home, nnd
this laid tho foundation of his piesent
fortune. He rose to bo supeilntendent
of tho vtpjMem division of the Pennsyl
vania, aided lu the movement ot troops
at tho outbieak of tho lebelllon, le
bullt the lallioad from Annapolis to
Washington, and returned to Pennsyl
vania to continue his active lallroad
woik theie.
T. T. Woodruff, the ilrst Inventor of
the sleeping car, met him there and
Intel osted htm lu Ids patents. Ml.
Scott organized a sleeping car com
pany, took in Carnegie as u stockhold
er, tho latter bonowed money fiom a
banker friend to pay for his shaie of
the stock and from that time to this
has always been able to live upon thu
lntei est of his Investments. He wa3
woith after tho formation of the sleep
ing car company nbout $10,000, but his
associates were men of much gi eater
wealth and they weie always willing to
loan him money or back him In enter
prises he favoied.
The Pennsylvania oil craze came. Mr.
Carnegie was impressed with the 1m
poitanco of owning nn oil well. Ho
Joined In with several men, and be
tween them they talsed $40,000 nnd pur
chased the Storey well, on Oil Creek.
This Investment paid them In one year
$1,000,000 in cash and dividends, and
the Storey farm, on which the well was
Than
NOT ONE single dollars worth of this vast stock is to be held in reserve.
As soon as one lot of goods is sold out, another takes its place. In fact,
you see one vast, continuous procession of bargains like a passing show.
The thousands who are here to day tell us that we have kept our word at every turn ; that we
are virtually giving away "The Leader" stock. In some instances, it seems a pity to sacrifice prices,
when qualities are so good, even though we did buy it for next to nothing.
Old Residents Say It Is the Greatest Sale
Scranton Has Ever Seen.
They compliment us on the magnificent arrangement of the stocks for public accommodation,
the polite and careful attention of the hundreds of employes, and the lightning-like change service
in vogue.
located, eventually become vvcith on
a btock basis the bum of $3,000,000.
yiv. Cainegio was moio than a mil
llonaiie when ho concluded he had
enough of oil, and he turned his atten
tion to the building of Iron and steel
btidges for railroads, an industry Just
beginning. A trip to England also con
vlneed him that iron lails would soon
bo discarded and steel rails would take
their place. He organized the Key
stone bridge works, and then built a
Bessemer plant, for the making of steel
i alls. Competitive plants statted, but
he bought them up, even the Home
stead works, which have since been
so Inseparably associated with his
name. In 1SS8 he owned the seven steel
woiks in and about Pittsburg and ten
ye.ns later saw it monthly output at
them ot 140,000 tons of pig lion and
160,000 tons of steel rails.
THE TWO MEN COMBINED.
For years pi lor to 1882 tho Carnegie
lntei ests had been heavy buers of
ConnellsvlUc coke. It was their policy
then, since developed into the gigantic
pioportions of today, to own cveiy sup
ply of taw mateilal contributing to
theli finished pioduet. They began by
acquiring furnace piopoitles to supply
their uppei and lower Union mills with
pig lion. Later, when the H. C. Filck
Coke company was organized, they
purchased heavily of its stock, but not
heavily enough to have contiol unless
H. C. Frlck was taken into their Inter
ests Thus the community of interest
was established between Camegle and
Filck. Alone, each was an obstacle to
the other. United, theli Intoiests be
came stiongtr.
The union was quietly effected, and
tho Cainegio Inteicsts pasbod on from
the coke Holds to acquire lake steam
eis, oio btds, tallroadfl, wateiwoiks
and evci thins else needed to mako
their position impiegnable. They oven
extended their opaiatlons Into local and
national politics, and became one of the
stiongest ndvocates in the eountiy of
the doctilne of piotectlon.
Thomas M, Carnegie, a bi other ot
Andiew, and Junior member of the Car.
neglo llrm, died In 1S8G, and Andiew
looked for a suecessoi. Mr. Filck
answered all of his lequlrements, and
he gave him closer contiol of tho busi
ness. In 1SS9 he mado him chad man
of the Carnegie company, and Iip has
held that position ever since. Since
that time the giowth of the Cainegio
business Interests, from the oro mines
on the shore lines of Lake Supeilor to
the steel-ribbed sky-scraper on Broad
way, New Yoiki.from the eiosh of
giant ensines at Homestead and Du
quesne to the Impact of Bhrleklng shell
against Camegle armor plate at San
tiago and Manila, has been largely due
to tho tireless efforts of Mr, Frlck, the
man who hns now bearded Mr. Car
negie In his den.
FRICK THE C1ENIUS.
While for ten years Mr. Camegle has
been coaching in Scotland, dining In
Half Cost.
London, wilting books on fice democ
racy and discussing how he would ex
pend his xust wealth, Filck has been
the master hand In the mills while the
dollars weio being ground out faster
thun ,the seconds passed. It was Filck
who convinced the Navy depaitmcut
that Camegle aimor was needed for
American war vessels. It was Frlck
who developed the H.uveyizlng of that
armor. It was Frlck who fought the
congiesslonal Investigating committees
when the charge was made that Cai
negie armor was unsafe.
It was Friek who fought labor at
Homestead In 1S9J, nnd with Pinker
tons and the state guuid conquered the
angry subordinates. It was Frlck who
faced the bullet and dagger of Heig
man the same yeai and lecoveied,
Frlck twlbted, turned, shifted, bent,
stiffened, as occasion lequiied, for the
Cainegio millions, held them Intact,
rode over eveiy obstacle, and won.
Perhaps 10,000,000 lb sulllclent reward
for such seivlce, and peihups it Is not.
If Mr. Tilek should receive no more
he would still lemaiii on exceedingly
wenlthy man, and if Mi. Camegle paid
him moio tho Camegle foi tune would
not be Impaired In tho least.
Ho Is a peeullai type ot a man one
of the new nonimetclal types to which
Cecil Rhodes belongs, and of w hleh
theio ate mnny duplicates now In this
eountiy. He Is cold, self contained,
Impassive. Ills emotions ate leaeived
for uso only In his homo circle. The
men he employs nre numbeis, and so
aio the tost of the Individuals In tho
woild. He enJos saicasm and Ufccs it
frequently.
CAItNEGIE'S AMUSEMENTS.
Mr. Carnegie's enjojment ot late
yeais has been coachlnir. tho writing
of books and the establishment of freo
public librnilcs. He has gone through
England and Scotland with a foui -ln-hand
and written an account of the
tilp In the volutin! "Our Coaching
Tiip." His "Triumphant Demociacy"
is a tilbuto to tho growth of the
Amcilcan citizen. His latest book, in
tended for pilvato cliculatlon, is en
titled "Foity Million Pounda Steillng.
What Shall I Do With It?" This
places the estimate of bis wealth at
$200,000,000 and Indlcntes his denlie to
dlsposo of it llghtfully befoie ho dies.
When ho stated last spilng that ho
intended to sell out all of his business
inteicsts ho said:
"I sold in puisuancp of a policy de
tei mined upon long since, not to spend
my old ago in business, struggling after
more dollars, I believo In developing n
dignified und unselfish life after 60."
But Mr. Carneglo was not able to sell
out at that time, and probably will not
be able to now for some tlmo to come.
Sinco his active business llfo begun
ho has given away to public enter
prises, (rlnclpally for freo libraries,
nearly $12,000,000. Ho Is willing to glvo
now wherever an entei prise Is consid
ered worthy by him of that kind of en
couragement. Ho has learned golf, is
Sale
enjoying travel, and, by his own dec
laration, In maturing plans for the final
disposition ot all the wealth he now
claims to llnd cumbersome and not nee
enry to his happiness
Ills bhaie In tho pioflts ot the Car
neglo compnnv. for 1899 was $12,2S3,0C0,
oi a little mote than he has given away
lu twenty-five vears. His share for
P.I00. If tho pioflts aio $40,000,000. will
be $24,867,300. These pioflts are from a.
total capitalization ot $10,000,000 in 1S93
(tho Carneglo Biotheis and the Car-ncgle-Plilpps
companies, each capital
ized for $5,000,000), and which was,
when the Carnegie Limited company
was cieatcd, Inci eased to $23,000,000.
HIOH SCHOOL NOTES.
Nearly every student In the school sjm
pathlzo with thosn wiio took p.u t in the
contest laat Friday and who after milk
ing such a initgnltlceiit effoit were nut
iiwaldtil a pi lo. The abllllv of thot
who took p.nt lb known to almost cvtry
p rsou toimeetcd with the school and
thev believe that had Miss Morris taken
as her competitive lecitatlon Eomo hu
moious belcctlmi the result would luiva
beta far illffeicnt. As It was almost cv
iijbod.v was surprised that sho was not
nvvaiiliil Iho prize. Nevertheless tha
decision ot those who, by mutual oon
h nt. were Klectrd by tho school, should
lie rc:ttttil and those who took part
hi the hissing, although manv were not
members of the school, deserve tho repri
manding that was given by tho principal
on Monday morning.
Tho icvott ranis which from now on
nio to l)ii given to tho pupils ot the oloie.
of ovciy bchool month, were distributed
Mondav. This does away with tho
monthly notices which wera formerly
sent home to the parents If tho pupil
mado a mnrk below seventy per cent.
This modo of marking tho result of the
mouth's work Is greatly preferred bv tho
students because, they are able to know
of a certainty what pcrcentago they hav
made during the month.
Tho division flags which have been pro
cured for tho exercises to take placo on
the coming Filday have been distributed,
to tho several cl.ibi.es and esterduy wcra
borne to tho auditorium. Tho marching
In of tho studontH Is a very pretty sight.
Tho tl igs aro mado of ery lino silk, and,
whin unfuiled aro about eight feel, long
by seven feet wide.
A. J. Collioui. who was prevented on
nt count of Illness from delivering his lee.
turo befoie tho school on QcorstJ' Wash
ington, will deliver It Friday of this '
week. This ticat Is looked forward (o
by tho students with a great deal of ox-f
pectotlon.
Tho school pTper, Impressions, was on
salo ytsterda, and after the lequest
mado by Professor Grant that tho paper
should bo supported, not only with lit
erary contributions but albo with tha
pocketbook a goodly number of copies
wcro sold among tho students,
Edwin Prltchard who some months ago
sustained a fracture of his leg while
coining down the locker room stairs,
was ablo to attend bchool yesterday end
hejond a slUhlly perceptible limp In his
walk and a llttlo backwardness In his
studies he Is as good as ever.
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