The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . of which he had not that intimate knowledgewhich comes through-the hand alone. His power to managemen, joined to his inventiveness and thorough practical training,made him the most conspicuous personal element in the phenom-enal success which attended the enterprise from the very gave many valuable suggestions to Mr. Holley while theplant was being erected, which were frankly adopted; and hislater inventions added enormously to the profits of the firmevery year of his life, and long after. Even in 1903 the Unite
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . of which he had not that intimate knowledgewhich comes through-the hand alone. His power to managemen, joined to his inventiveness and thorough practical training,made him the most conspicuous personal element in the phenom-enal success which attended the enterprise from the very gave many valuable suggestions to Mr. Holley while theplant was being erected, which were frankly adopted; and hislater inventions added enormously to the profits of the firmevery year of his life, and long after. Even in 1903 the UnitedStates Steel Corporation filed a bill in equity to restrain the * Its [the Edgar Thomson plant] successful operation is greatly due to thelarge experience in Bessemer manufacture of Capt. William R. Jones, generalsuperintendent of the works and of Capt. Thomas H. Lapsley, superintendent ofthe rolling mill, who have a force under them largely composed of men experiencedin the manufacture of rails.—American Manufacturer, November iSth, 1S75. 8o THE STEEL BVSLXESS S?l. Pouring hot metal into the Jones Mixer Tones & Laughlin Steel Company from using the famous metalmixer which Captain Jones invented for the Edgar Thomson Company; and this one de-vice, used as it is in everyBessemer department of thegreat steel corporation, is stillthe means of saving it mil-5^SN lions of dollars every the same time no detailwas too small for CaptainJones personal indeed was one of thesecrets of his success withworkmen. He was ever onthe lookout for their personally attended to theventilation of the shops ; and, as another little illustration of hiscare, may be mentioned a generous supply of oatmeal and waterfor drinking purposes. ToCaptain Jones is also due thesystem of rewards for excep-tional service which after-wards characterized the ad-ministration of all the Car-negie properties, and whichhas since been extended, withbeneficial effects, to all theconstitue
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