Show t m DIES OF f p PNEUMONIA mM IA One of Young Men to Be Buried in r Pittsburg t NEW YORK July 13 AP- AP lexander R. R Peacock one of Andrew Andrew An An- drew Carnegie young men whom the steel king led to fortune In the nineties is I. dead Pneumonia fatal at St. St Vincents Vincent's hospital yes yea yesterday He was 66 years old r The rapIdity with which Peacock Charles M. M Schwab and other earlY associates ot of Carnegie made their millions caused many legends to pring up about them Stories about cock painted him as probably thu hu most eccentric of the earlY millionaires but his asso- asso clates I tes say most ot of these stories are Untrue It Is generally admitted however that the Scotch burr on the tongue of the young linen clerk In a a. Pittsburg Pitts' Pitts burg store attracted the attention mUon t of Mrs Carnegie and led to Peacocks Peacock's Peacocks Peacock's Pea Pea- cocks cock's association with the steel king lIe and Mr Carnegie were born In the same town In Scotland SC After getting a loan of 1500 from Jr Carnegie which he paid back promptly 1 Peacock was aas given a place In the credIt department of the Homestead steel works GOT LARGE ORDER Sent to settle a a. matter of credit with Thomas later Sir Thomas president ot of the Ca- Ca Pacific railroad he returned reported the successful completion ot of the millS mission Ion and threw a a. piece lot of paper on his superiors superior's desk saying say say- ing And here Is s a a. little order for you ou The Tho order was for O tons of steel falls rans the largest large received at atthe atthe the homestead plant at that Ume Peacock was taken out of the credit department and put In the sales force torce later Inter duplicating the order with one from the New York sub ways waS eventually he be became became a partner no lie built a a mansion In the land Park section ot of which was one of the show places of the city It was said laid that carved designs of peacocks abounded In the house and grounds but a frequent nt visitor at the home denies this Forty servants were needed to keep the house hous In hi order When a butler served him bum a cold storage e egg g one orie morning he ordered construction started on a chicken farm farin so that he might ht always always always' al- al ways ways' hale ha fresh eggs lie He also allo constructed a well stocked stocked trout pool on his grounds so that Ito he might have fresh fish when he THRASHED A 4 story Is told toed that when lie dIscovered dIs- dIs covered some In his office office of- of fice had squandered about of company money In gambling and drinking he called them Int into his of of- fc tics ono one by one and soundly thrashed them Again when he was able to secure onlY upper berths In a a. crowded train at San Francisco he be hired n a special train In which to return home borne When the United States Steel corporation absorbed the C company Mr Peacock branched out outon outon on his ow own account but was never very successful Ire He moved his family fam fam- lIy ily to New York several years earR ago and since had engaged In real reat estate estate es- es tate activities At one time he was said to have ha been worth between OO and but he heIs heis Is believed to have left an estate of only a a. fraction of this amount He Is survived by his widow two daughters Mrs Irs J. J Laroque Anderson Ander- Ander son and Mss Jean Jen Peacock and three sons Clarence N. N Rolland B. B and Grant A. A Peacock all ln in business business busi- busi ness In thIs city Members of the family left with the body for Pittsburg where the funeral servIces will take plane |