. Review of reviews and world's work. s a grocery clerk, and itwas at Braddock that he laid the foundation forhis future success. The Edgar Tliomson SteelWorks were then in the building-up process ;the shining steel rails were alicady finding jnar- kets eager for the product. Mr. Schwab ob-tained a place at the plant as a stake driver inthe engineer corps, anil he advanced so tliat soonhe was making 130 a month. MK. SCHWABS METHODS AS WORKING PRESIDENT. Mr. Schwab became chief engineer and ouiitthe Homestead steel plant where the armor platesare made. After managing this plant for someyears he
. Review of reviews and world's work. s a grocery clerk, and itwas at Braddock that he laid the foundation forhis future success. The Edgar Tliomson SteelWorks were then in the building-up process ;the shining steel rails were alicady finding jnar- kets eager for the product. Mr. Schwab ob-tained a place at the plant as a stake driver inthe engineer corps, anil he advanced so tliat soonhe was making 130 a month. MK. SCHWABS METHODS AS WORKING PRESIDENT. Mr. Schwab became chief engineer and ouiitthe Homestead steel plant where the armor platesare made. After managing this plant for someyears he was placed in charge of the EdgarThomson Steel Works in a similar Carnegie took kindly to this young man,who had the push and confidence of which suc-cess is made. In 189G he was made presidentof the Carnegie Steel Company, with a salary of$50,000 a year, besides 3 per cent, interest inthe company. In his method of dealing witkhis many superintendents Mr. Schwab is confi-dential to the degree of sociability, even wlieik. ?nil, IHirPS CONSEUVATORY. IN PARK, PITTSBURG. THE GREAT STEEL MAKERS OF PITTSBURG. 443
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