| Show I HIS LIFE tiFE IN SIX CHAPTERS I Something Aleut About A out Corey Steel s Write V rite k The Seventh i j t tf tr t L tJ f r f r Q QT fT 1 r rT T 16 years yearn of ago pg Will Corey was wa waA w aa happiest fellow I In the young A Braddock the Pennsylvania I r P e town which Is tho ho heart of t ht tt plAt t Iron and steel Industry says ayes as Six Nix Ix ola World lie He as 11 happy tat for or two reasons Nur Nurtured NurI I turN people whose lives Ios and thoughts revolved about the big mills to and lb t furnished livelihood many millions in money none mone to a n few fe he had hall looked toward tot ard tho the when li ht he should become nn active factor In the thes lift Ul l Ire of the to mint mines Inns ai na the first crisis s I In n hi ht hilife hie life and It had come om The Tho next morn mornIng lag Ing ho was wan to begin work on tho the coal coald dimp d damp mp of his Ids uncles mine His JUs begin beginning beginnIng ning vas brae the humblest humblet possible but buthe buthI buthe he hI was glad of It For even eon then he heI I planned to 10 the tho iron tron and steel bun bue bu InH thoroughly and become ltd lis mas mae master mast ter t r rIlls Ills His other reason for being happy happ was wa was because b he had met Laura Jaura Cook the thi eYed vivacious 16 old daughter of a 8 miner th the first prat girl that iad even Cen momentarily Illy distracted his at ollon from his great droom of becom jw the head of ot tho the steel Industry It II was not many man weeks weeke before this dream which had teemed seemed to the boy bo a II wonderful one wee was merged In another dream dreama a vision of a tiny tin home In which ho hll and tho the glorified being that other 01 her r people Pe thought of merely as Laura Cook should live lIe together CHAPTER II r In n a n year ear later William Corey orey and Laura Cook were married Each was tU as 17 Ii and standing before tho the altar the solemn vows OS that made them one they faced a ro d fu future fUI tune ture I They The were very er poor The boy now lOW earned a week instead of n Ii The girl had nothing The first tint years of r their married lira life formed a Il period of cf sharp struggle Children were born iff to them The young husband was ryas happy hapl In be being beIng beIng ing able to provide for tor thorn them and their mother soother who tolled d and nd saved land ly I In the tho Interest of ot her home All his hl thoughts circled about their advance advancement ment aunt During the day dav da he worked In ht the mills At night ho he attended a 1 burners college ollege In Hit His few fel spare sparl moments were werf given to experiments In Inthe inthe Inthe the chemical laboratory where h he 10 con conceived conceived ideas for Improvement Im In th manufacture of or steel te 1 that thel later lator brought him tower po r and fortune After four years Corey Coro who had served nerved rod variously arlou as furnace man roller and r In ht Inthe Inthe the Braddock mill attracted the atten attention attention tion lion of Andrew Carnegie who made him superintendent of 01 one of the mills at tit Homestead Then Mrs Irs Coreys father alt leaving Ie I her bar a 1 few tu r thousand lot dol dollar lar tars It Is le said Mid she nhe he turned th the money mone over oer to 10 Corey Corll and that It formed formel tho foundation of 01 his large fortune The couple wore still very nr happy and the wife no longer had to work so 80 hard CHAPTER HI m After a year nl nt Homestead homestead ore wn WR placed In charge charle of tho the de tie department the most Important charge lit IIi the steel Industry His Hla various invert Inell Inventions and Improvement were erA and In 1696 he hI was made general super of 01 the Carnegie company Coreys Coro uncle has sail said that Andrew Andrea Carnegie ruined hl his nephew turned his head by b too tOIl rapid advancement However this may be when harlea Schwabe gambling at II Monte Carlo cost co t him hie hi leadership fit of fifthe the giant steel trust Carnegie Carnele chow chose Corey Core for his successor or It was waR about this time when hen he h had reached the pin pinnacle node nacle of or material advancement Owl Coreys Core s domestic troubles begun began CHAPTER V The Coreys Cores had moved to They The formed part of the Smoky lour circus cirrus of trained and un um untrained trained millionaires In some come respects has hall always been the mecca of musical comedy d Between tho the Pitts Pittsburg burg burl millionaire and the New Nes ew York chorus horus girl en an of affinity by b no means meane sub tie tic has always existed It li Is said ald that one of at these theM grew up between hi Corey who Iho had grown too big for Pitts Pittsburg burg burr and Mabelle Oilman Gilman then star tar starring tarring ring in The Mocking who nhu I ho hn has hall MiKe 11 e found New York Turk too small for her herand herand and Is la In 10 Purls Perle having haying her voice oice cultivated t Mr Ir Coreys expense U Me It hn hUll has been stated Mated I Mrs Coreys first nut Intimation lion tion of ot her husbands wandering affection Lion tion came ume through a 1 photograph pub put published In a It magazine of Miss studio whore a n life size sire portrait of Mr Ir Corey Core on nil an easel woe was IS revealed Mrs Corey asked an nn explanation of her hus hue husband husband band There were stormy mu scenes acmes Cn mu mutual tes reproaches Finally Y In 1146 1 I OJ 05 Mr Ir Corey ore left his hie home hOlne and came lime to to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York VI 1 Mrs In Corey Corf followed him and at III a It mooting meeting at lit the Hotel plead pleaded ed ell for or a l reconciliation that would keep their home Mr Ir Corey Core refused He lie said ald Id his hll wife had never ner loved loed him Ills His father and sister denied this and an gave testimony to Mrs Irs Coreys I yours years of devotion and Ind self Mr Ir Cor Corey Corcy ey cy 1 Issued a 1 statement In which he ad all admitted his hIB friendship for Mia Oilman Gilman but said eahl he would contest content the divorce suit she threatened If It It 1 Involved him himIn himIn himin In an any mora mom turpitude For 1 r months month friends friend and strove to reunite the couple Andrew A n dr Carnegie was AI ap nl appealed appealed pealed 1 to It waa u said ahl at one on time that Coreys Core dome at 1111 Ic troubles trouble might coot coit n t thim him his hili presidency of the Ihl steel trust This proved 1 to lc be u untrue nHUt Hut the fa Pa fatal Patel tel tal blight of money was WAI between tin th Core and aM nothing against their separation Accompanied by b Cm 01 eys es sister Mm Mrs Core Corey orl went nt to Ken Hen Nev XI and ami after a six tx months month r brought suit milt for divorce It Is I said Inlet Ud that Corey Core paid her h In lieu of sit all alimony loony mony moo On Monday lond sho rho ho received hr her de tic decree roe cree She wept ept when Ihl It was a pronoun oun pd M Mr Ir Cor Corey or y celebrated c hi hU his freedom Creation fr om by b a bachelor dinner at lit CHAPTER R VII II L Will lit It be written by b Miss Mis 11 Mabelle Oil Gil Oilman Gilman man |
