NEW YORK AS HEADQUARTERS Our business continued to expand and required frequent visits on my part to the East, especially to New York, which is as London to Britain--the headquarters of all really important enterprises in America.

No large concern could very well get on without being represented there.

My brother and Mr.Phipps had full grasp of the business at Pittsburgh.

My field appeared to be to direct the general policy of the companies and negotiate the important contracts.
My brother had been so fortunate as to marry Miss Lucy Coleman, daughter of one of our most valued partners and friends.

Our family residence at Homewood was given over to him, and I was once more compelled to break old associations and leave Pittsburgh in 1867 to take up my residence in New York.