Under his superintendence the Union Iron Mills became a most profitable branch of our business.

He had overworked himself after a few years' application and we decided to give him a trip to Europe.

He came to New York by way of Washington.

When he called upon me in New York he expressed himself as more anxious to return to Pittsburgh than to revisit Germany.

In ascending the Washington Monument he had seen the Carnegie beams in the stairway and also at other points in public buildings, and as he expressed it: "It yust make me so broud dat I want to go right back and see dat everyting is going right at de mill." Early hours in the morning and late in the dark hours at night William was in the mills.