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Show "Fiddled His Way to Success" TUSIC has had no little share in shaping the destiny of Charles M. Schwab. It was with music that he won the heart of Andrew Carnegie, Car-negie, the great ironmaster, many years ago and thus was able to obtain ob-tain a foothold upon the ladder of success which he has mounted since to the very top. When Mr. Schwab was eighteen he was earning $6 a week at Mr. Carnegie's plant in Braddock, Pa., hut soon attracted the attention of Captain W. E. Jones, the general superintendent, who marveled at the boy's knowledge of the workings of the plant. Schwab's rise wrs quick, and soon he was working alongside of Captain Jones, to whom he served as a sort of encyclopedia of facts and figures. Mr. Carnegie resided at Pitts- burgh, ten miles from the plant, and would frequently send for Captain Jones for a report. - To rid himself of this to him irksome duty Captain Jones one day said to Mr. Carnegie: "By the way, I think I can fix this matter of making reports without wasting my time.. I've a young fellow named Schwab who knows as much about the plant as I do. I'll send him to you. and when you get tired talking shop he'll give you a. little music. He rlayg the piano, the organ and the violin first-rate, and he also sir,g3." Mr. Carnegie found that Captain Jones had not exaggerated. He wa9 amazed at the youth's efficiency. After a several hours' session young Schwab took up his hat and was about to go when Mr. Carnegie exclaimed: "Oh, by the way you must play for me. I a!mo.--t forgot." And the way the boy played and ran the old songs that had been popular when Mr. Carnegie was a child, and especially an old Scotch b.niiad, touched the ironmaster's h'-art. Scarcely out of his teens, the re-tullJir.g re-tullJir.g of the Homestead miils was committed to Schwab, and, at thirty, on the death of Captain Jor.es, he became general superintendent of the Edgar Thorn, on workj at alary f a year. ' r -: i- , -.. A J... j ' ' . " r--" v ' I .-. -. : . . - ";. ... :: : r ' i l : . . . : '... . . .' i t -L,.. .. ' ' . i ' |