Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1935, Page 26

B-—12 LBRARYDISPLA CARNEBE TS Books, Pamphlets and Pho- tographs Tell of Philan- thropist’s Life. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. In commemoration of the centenary of Andrew Carnegie, the Library of Congress is exhibiting some of its| K most interesting and valuable treas- | ures—a selection of the books, | pamphlets, photographs, engravings, manuscripts and letters by or about the great philahthropist given sev- eral years ago by his widow. The display fills 56 sections of seven large cases in the south gallery | of the main floor of the Library| building. Its scope extends from | Carnegie's boyhood up to the present | year, and it represents one of the| most notable collections of bxograph\-i cal data to be found anywhese in the} | world today. Probably, sonner or later, it will be used in the.writing of a dermmvei life of the Scottish weaver's boy, who | by his skill in accumulating money and his genius in dispersing it for the improvement of mankind earned | universal fame and died, in 1919, | mourned by millions of plain people, | not vastly different from himself. . Background Is Shown. How undistinguished was the back- ground of his career is manifested in | the Library show by a photograph | of his bigthplace—a tiny three-room cottage at Dunfermiine, almost as humble as the log cabin in whiclr Abraham Lincoln is supposed. to have - been born. With it are copies of the registration of his parents’ marriage and: the record of his own debut on | the world stage—both transcribed | from the General Registry of Edin- burgh and officially attested. | ‘The youngster who was destined to become the premier steel-master | of the age appears in a portrait made | when he was 5 years old. He looks out of the frame with gentle, dreamy | eyes, but he holds his head with a certain confident pride which he | maintained to the last. Another | photograph presents him with his brother Thomas, eight years his junior, in 1851. Still a third depicts him when he was a messenger boy in Pittburgh, and sith it there is a letter from A. L. Hardy, concerning & romantic incident of that period— the prompt return of a draft for $500 which Carnegie had found in the street. =l “Plan for Life.” | Also exhibited is Carnegie's| *“schema” or “plan for life,” dated 1868, in which he projected his future activities in business and self-educa- tion. With the document are a detter to his uncle, George Lauder, one of the principal mentors of his vouth, and a letter to his cousin of the same name, dated, respectively, 1851 and 1862; also a photostat of his father's declaration of intention to become an American citizen. Of special interest is General Order No. 10, Pennsylvania R. R., appoint- ing Carnegie superintendent of the Western Division, Pittsburgh to Cone- maugh—the “scrap of paper” which magked the beginning of his prodig- | fous fortune. His first “big money” was the result of his introductien of sleeping cars in his territpry. The | contract gave him the power ‘o buy | | and many Lord Roseberry, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, David Lloyd George, Ramsay Macdonald, John Hay, Henry Cabot Lodge, Frederic Harri- son, Rudyard Kipling, Sir James M. Barrie, Sir Henry Irving, Earl Grey, Lord Balfour, Lord Bryce, Sir:Cecil Spring Rice, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, Dr. Arthur T. Hadley, Gen. Willlam Booth and Miss Helen Keller. Also the Duke of Northumberland, Edwin A. Abbey, Kate Field, W. T. Stead, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Sidney Lee, James Whiicomb Riley, Joel Chandler Harrls, Parke Godwin, William Dean Howells, Robert Inger- soll, Edwin Markham, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Sir Gilbert Parker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Augustine Birrell, Sir Edwin Arnold, Sir Henry Bessemer, | Thomas A. Edison, Sir Willlam Osler other famous con= temporaries, Fine_ Office Records -— —will prevent many an economic disaster. Have them printed neatly and accurately by the NATIONAL CAPITAL PRESS one of the PRERS. g of e East. Florida Ave. 3rd and N Sts. N.E. Linc. 550 can supply the Blank Books you need. Come in or phone your order. E. Morrison Paper Co. 1009 Pa. Ave. Phone NA. 2945 A Big Pre-Thanksgiving Dance, Beginning at 9:30 Ladies, 53¢ Gents, 750 Beer and Wine Served at Tables. Featuring Phil and his_Meyer Davis Band. HUFNAGEL COAL CO. Yard and Office Every nd Delivered in Bags to Your Bin—No Extra Charge for Carrying. HIGHEST GRADES _OF VIRGINIA HARD COALS: South MARYLAND SMOKELESS—A Bituminous Coal without Smoke, Ege Size. $9.50; 80% PA BLACK DIAMOND—Bitu- Hard _Structure. Light £c Size, 88.50; 33% Lump, Lump and Fine Coal bagoed sepa- rately. showing “you get correct percentage of lump. All coals UN- CONDITIONALLY guaranteed. Dial NAtional 5885 or WAlnut 7878 (Day or Night). a one-eighth share in the Woodruff | Co., original holder of the Pullman | patents. Meanwhile, however, Carnegie was | pursuing his objective in literature. ‘Business, he had decided, was to be only an avocation; his real purpose in life was the art of letters. The Library proves the notable degree of success he attained by its display of books and pamphlets on railroading, steel manufacturing, other industries of Pennsylvania, “Democracy in Eng- land,” “The Reunion of Britain and America,” “British Pessimism,” “Tri- umphant Democracy, “Industrial Peace,” “The Negro in America,” "“Tariff, Railroad Rates and Re- bates,” “How to Win a Fortune” and “How I Served My Apprenticeship.” Also, Carnegie’s biography of James Watt, his “American Four in Hand in Britain,” “The Gospel of Wealth,” the typescript of his autobiography, many | translations of his works irito foreign languages and multitudinous reprints. The author's practice was to repro- duce in booklet form the essays and | commentaries he published first in | standard periodicals. | Wit Is Demonstrated. Carnegie’s wit is demonstrated par- ticularly in a humorous sketch on | “Dr. Golf,” in which he advocates re- | epurse to the links for improved health. His humanitarianism is re- flected in his address at the dedica- | tion of the Peace Palace at The | Hague and his cultural idealism n his . rectorial address at St. Andrew's Uni- | versity. . | But the social aspect of his philosophy perhaps is most con- | vincipgly proved by the library's showing of the correspondence re- lating to his gift of $10,000,000 for the advancement of teaching and by letters from the former Kaiser William II of Germany, King Ed- ward VII and King George V of Great Britain, Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands and other sovereigns. In the cases, likewise, are numbers of letters from Gladstone and Her- Bert Spencer, Lord Morley, Presidents Benjamin Harrison, William McKin- | ley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson, Thanksgiving DANCE Thursday, Nov. 28 10 to 1 Bernie Jarboe Music f@le Fivesidel The Smart Place T. B., Md. On La Plata Road—Only 13 miles from Washington DANCES EVERY SATURDAY ‘COAL 2,240 Pounds to the Ton Blue Ridge Va. 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