Our managers have always complained that they had bad luck when they attempted to remelt it in the blast furnace." I said nothing, but upon my return to Pittsburgh I set about having a joke at his expense.

We had then a young man in our service named Du Puy, whose father was known as the inventor of a direct process in iron-making with which he was then experimenting in Pittsburgh.

I recommended our people to send Du Puy to Cleveland to contract for all the roll-scale of my friend's establishment.

He did so, buying it for fifty cents per ton and having it shipped to him direct.

This continued for some time.