The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . e especially he was afraid Miller might involve the firm insome way, or attempt to do so, for revenge, or might insistupon withdrawing his share of the profits at inconvenient times,etc. To cover these objections I suggested that Millers goodbehavior might be secured by a clause giving the other part-ners the right to eject him upon notice, provided the fearsexpressed were realized. This was accepted and the presentpapers executed. Having reached this extraordinary settlement with Kloman,Carnegie telegraphed his brother
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . e especially he was afraid Miller might involve the firm insome way, or attempt to do so, for revenge, or might insistupon withdrawing his share of the profits at inconvenient times,etc. To cover these objections I suggested that Millers goodbehavior might be secured by a clause giving the other part-ners the right to eject him upon notice, provided the fearsexpressed were realized. This was accepted and the presentpapers executed. Having reached this extraordinary settlement with Kloman,Carnegie telegraphed his brother to write Miller that he mustaccept it, as otherwise the position in which I [Andrew Car-negie] would be placed would be that of an agent whose actswere disavowed by his principal, and this would be the firsttime during my life in which I had been so placed. IVIiller therefore accepted the settlement under protest, andallowed his interest to be cut down to what it was before thepurchase of Anthonys stock, and to hold even this interestonly on sufferance of his MILLERS CABBAGli PATCH 21 The incident closed for the time being, after Miller hadaccepted his expulsion and allowed his capital to be put in thename of T. M. Carnej^ie as trustee. Thenceforward it was apartnership between Klonian, Phipps, and the younger Carnegie, Even before the narratives of this quarrel were written—August 5th, ICS64—Miller had quietly paid $400 to a gardenernamed Gumming, as compensation for five acres of half-growncabbages which he destroyed to make room for a rival mill atThirty-third Street, Pittsburg, only four blocks from the Klo-man-Phipps Iron City Forges. The lease bears date of July1st, 1864. In this venture Andrew Carnegie, despite hisbrothers interest in the Kloman mill, had a large share. Thelist of organizers also included the names of Aaron G. Shifflerand J. L. Piper, who had bridge-building works near, whichwere to be supplied with iron from the new mill. There werealso t
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