For the most part they had spent their boyhood together, had played with each other as children, had attended the same Sunday schools, had sung in the same church choirs, and, as young men, had quarreled with each other over their sweethearts.

The Pittsburgh group comprised about forty men, most of whom retired as millionaires, though their names for the most part signify little to the present-day American.

Kloman, Coleman, McCandless, Shinn, Stewart, Jones, Vandervoort--are all important men in the history of American steel.

Thomas A.Scott and J.Edgar Thompson, men associated chiefly with the creation of the Pennsylvania Railroad, also made their contributions.

But three or four men towered so preeminently above their associates that today when we think of the human agencies that constructed this mighty edifice, the names that insistently come to mind are those of Carnegie, Phipps, Frick, and Schwab.
Books have been written to discredit Carnegie's work and to picture him as the man who has stolen success from the labor of greater men.
Yet Carnegie is the one member of a brilliant company who had the indispensable quality of genius.