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Show I I . . . - - . "THE MAN WHO NEVER FAILS 'THAT'S MELLON, NEW TREASURY HEAD ' ' -ill. ii . T U IK . II I M L BIRTH At ntuourg. Pa . March Zt. III:. KDrt'ATH'N t nlveralty of Pltturg vMI!i:ic.ih , M Nora M Mullen Two children OCCU PATIO N Bonkar HOME Pittsburgh. Pa. - i K staff s- laj , PITTSBUata Prooldant Harding ha p: a-l Andrew kfotioa Of PlttO-burg. PlttO-burg. for hia sf-retar of tha treaa-ur treaa-ur . A.k anyone in PHUburg who Mellon 'la and you get this reply I'r.n t you know Mellon" Whv. he's jhaad of the Mallon National bank." i Aak Ih aatne man what Mellon looks like what kind of a man h- rall La ! and the i bancti are ha ll have to ad-l ad-l mil ignorance. And thla deaplte the fact that Andrew An-drew Mellon waa born and grew up In . Ptttaburg and that In rr- nt yeara he has been aaaoclat-n aritll eountlea IPhaoea of industrial activity in and 'round It. Mellon always has studloiisiv h voided void-ed publicity and shunned the spotlight. 'Hi. retiring nature Is shown in atate-mnta atate-mnta of friends that In his dsilv life hf dnM not have one single tli i Intimate aaaoclate. Plttaburgers av that Mellon knows I by name or sight bill few Of thc arm; of men and women employed a the Mellon National hank, of Which le l president, aithouah he mlngla. oootln- . nall with them. M.W v mm I H ia a man of mild speech He . deliberate In all hie thought mo actions and never has been Known to jlose his habitual calm. He la at hia deak eery working dav of the year and handles n surprising amount of routine details of hia man flnan.isi Interests without displaying the slightest fatigue. Ida apnre DS- jmenta are apent with his two ebUdron, lAllao and Haul, to whom he la especially espec-ially devoted. i Mellon has been president of the, .Mellon National baUlk slneo I";. He has made it one of thaj leading bsnk-ing bsnk-ing Institution. of the countrv II aloo la Intereated In tnvn1 oth. ka !ln cltle. in the ne)rhhr,rhood of IMtta- burg, and is associated with llenrv t Frlck In the development of vast coal. eoke and Iron enterprises In w.tern 1 Pennsylvania. He OBtabllsbod creat stee mills at U.on..r.i. Pa., i,um tho ,own wnlcn boar, that nan,e He is one of the trustees of the Carnegie Institute and ia associated as aW i kndrow W Mellon, Pittsburg Bain kef Wlao'll be ibe New Secrutsrj ( tin- 'i rsssuf . snd Hi. Hoiih- in Pitts buiy, with sevfrl (.harilul'le and beneviolent association.. He ha. studied social welfare closely and haa given large i sum. to .upport movements he ( thought were meritoiSous. But these donations always were made under some arrangement that would shield ,hlni from publicity. ..lelion v is hoin in Pittsi.ury March 24, 1X52 After attending school in ; Pittsburg, he . uter. (1 the I'lilverslt) of Pittsburg, then Known as the Western t'nlveraliv of Pennsylvania, anil was graduated in IS7J. Iater he waa (awarded the, degree or M A. from that (institution. Mellon, shortly after completing hta achoollng. entered the Mellon bank which had been founded by Thomas Mellon, his father. In 1S69 Associates aay Mellon I. the most Oonsorvwthf. and well-informed banker bank-er In Pennsylvania His ability and success have won him tho name In Limine?" circles of "the man who tif.-i falls." Mellon never has been politically active. The Mellon family fortune, including in-cluding that of the new cabinet officer offi-cer and those of his two banket- broth-era, broth-era, i. said to be second only to that of Rockefeller |