The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . othercountry. Henry Clay Frick, to whoseremarkable executive and admin-istrative ability this miracle ofindustrialism is due, was onlythirty-three years of age when hejoined the Carnegies; and alreadyhe had achieved the most note-worthy success in the coke indus-try of Pennsylvania. Born atWest Overton in 1849, youngFrick is found at the age of tengathering sheaves in the wheat-fields, carrying wood and water,and doing such small farm chores as came within his childsstrength. This was his way of spending the summer holid
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . othercountry. Henry Clay Frick, to whoseremarkable executive and admin-istrative ability this miracle ofindustrialism is due, was onlythirty-three years of age when hejoined the Carnegies; and alreadyhe had achieved the most note-worthy success in the coke indus-try of Pennsylvania. Born atWest Overton in 1849, youngFrick is found at the age of tengathering sheaves in the wheat-fields, carrying wood and water,and doing such small farm chores as came within his childsstrength. This was his way of spending the summer afforded him the best of exercise, and probably gave him thatvigor and recuperative power which, later, astonished the sur-geons who were probing to find the assassins bullets in hissadly wounded body. In undertaking this faxm work the childacted on his own impulse. He did it to earn enough moneyto buy his clothes. Then he went back to school, where hedisplayed the same earnestness of purpose. At the age offourteen he not only bought his own clothes but entirely. Small farm chores. THE ROMANCE OF COKE 171 maintained himself, working behind the counter of a countrystore. At nineteen he became bookkeeper in his grandfathersflouring-mill and distillery at Broad Ford, in the centre ofwhat is now the Connellsville coke region. At the thresholdof manhood he thus found himself fortuitously placed in thefield of his future activities, where he was destined to find bothwealth and honor. The history of the development of the Connellsville regionis necessarily a sketch of the personal career of Henry ClayFrick. He was one of the first, even at this youthful age, torecognize the importance to the expanding iron industries ofWestern Pennsylvania of this wonderfully rich deposit of cok-ing coal. He has been the leading spirit in its development;so that to-day, in some of the iron-producing centres of theUnited States, Connellsville coke is known only as Frick built railroads f
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