Show Climbed James the new president of the United States Steel who will receive a salary of per came from the bottom of the ladder to his present starting as si wire mill laborer at That was the age at which Charles M. Schwab got a place as stake driver in the engineering corps of the Steel and same age at which William B. Corey entered the chemical laboratory of the Edgar Thomson Steel The New York in commenting editorially on the management which has made the Steel Trust successful and says Schwab had an academic but none of the Steel Trust presidents received a technical school training such as would seem requisite for the practical management of the country's greatest industrial Pew if any of enjoyed that educational The once acknowledged his debt to his but his lieutenants were mostly chosen-from among men trained in the The ability shown by graduates not only of these but of other mills and and their capacity in other activities besides the technical of bear witness to the very satisfactory education that can be obtained in one of these great industrial uni given the application and the intelligence to profit by Nor is it only the practical business of steel making that is given over to self-educated The majority of the directors composing the Steel financial committee had only a common school Henry Phipps was a Pittsburg office Norman P. Beam a farm boy and a country school Henry a dark for a flour George W. Perkins an insurance i and P. A. B. Widener started out af- ter leaving the high to learn the meat h |