. Financial giants of America . he lawn overlookingthe drive are set two bronze figures of heroic size, the worksof a celebrated French sculptor. Labor is represented by apuddler in an iron mill. Metallurgical Science is a figureof a woman with upturned face and a laurel wreath above herbrow. Tliis w^ay the sculptor symbolizes his conception of theSteel Kings upward journey. Mrs. Schwab and he spent nearly $2,000,000 on thehome of Orphaned and Crippled children on Staten home has capacity for taking care of a thousand childrena day, giving them the run of the bathing pavillion and
. Financial giants of America . he lawn overlookingthe drive are set two bronze figures of heroic size, the worksof a celebrated French sculptor. Labor is represented by apuddler in an iron mill. Metallurgical Science is a figureof a woman with upturned face and a laurel wreath above herbrow. Tliis w^ay the sculptor symbolizes his conception of theSteel Kings upward journey. Mrs. Schwab and he spent nearly $2,000,000 on thehome of Orphaned and Crippled children on Staten home has capacity for taking care of a thousand childrena day, giving them the run of the bathing pavillion and 60acres of land. Among his other gifts are an auditorium to thePennsylvania State College; an Alumnae Hall to Mt. AloysiusCrescent, Pennsylvania, and an Industrial School to Home-stead; a Catholic Church School to Loretta, another church toBraddock; a school to Weatherly, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Schwabsbirthplace, and a new highway between Loretta and Crescentto replace the road over which young Schwab drove as abarefooted boy. [M3]. QUINCY A. SHAW To Quincy A. Shaw may he attributed a greatpart of the making of Calumet & Hecla. With Alexander Agassiz he piloted the hig cop-per producer of Lake Superior to a position amongthe worlds great mines—a feat that e-ntitles himto an enduring place in the developyneyit of themineral resources of America. QUINCY ADAMS SHAW QJINCY ADAMS SHAW, the elder, was born in Bostonin 1822. He was a fine old gentleman of the oldschool of Bostonians. Rather early in life, he marriedthe daughter of Professor Louis Agassiz, who many years agowas prospecting for copper in upper Michigan and found itto the eternal gratification of his descendants. Shaw longbore the distinction of paying the largest amount in taxes tothe city of Boston. He controlled some 4,500 shares ofCalumet & Hecla stock and could exert much influence overthe 6,000 shares belonging to the Agassiz estate. It is said that when the stock of the Calumet & Hecla wasselling around $ 1 a share,
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