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X “tors depended on the dots and dashes ‘mortgage their home for $500 which The invested with Mr. Scott in ten \ ‘fron 5 As sure a way to wealth as theré| } a yon factions in 25 Years Were Wide in Variety and Totalled $300,000,000. RACED RISE TO BOOKS, aster in Choosing Business Associates, He Made Many Captains “of Indystry! Andrew Carnbgic was born Nover- 25, 1836, at Dunfermline, Scotland. “had but little schooling except hat witich his mother could give him and his brother William in such time a4 could be spared from her house- hold cares. The father was a loom ‘worker afd until machinery replaced the hand Jooms Andrew was a bobbin ‘boy afd also an apprentice in an tron foundry. ‘When he was eleven years old ‘the family moved to the United ‘Btates with the aid of $50 borrowed from ah uncle, George Lauder. They ed in Allegheny City, across; the rivep from Pittsburgh in 1848, and father and son again set to work at the hand loom. Andrew's salary wa: $1.20 a week. His first advarice was Promotion to be assistant to the en- @ineer, who advised him to read books from the library established for mill workers by a Colonel Anderyon. “When I began getting ahead In the world,” Mr. Carnegie said in his later years, “I was always able to trace back each advance to the read- ing I did in those mill days. That’ why I bave always wanted to-make it-easy for young people to read good pois.” ‘ J. Douglas Reid, a Dunfermline man, took the Carnegie boy out of the , Mills at fourteen and made him a “telegraph messenger. He surprised the office by reading a message by ear at a time when nearly all opera- indented in tape to decipher messases, He was the third operator to achieve this proficiency and was at once pro- moted. When the Pennsylvania Rail- road installed its first telegraph sig- nal system he became a clerk in the office of Division Superintendent ‘Thomas A. Scott at a salary of $35 @ month, WHEN CARNEGIE MADE HIS FIRST $10,000. Carnegie became the head of the family when he was sixteen years old, on the death of his father. Sooh thereafter he induced his mother to ARNEGIE CARNEGIE FOUNDED FORTUNE OF $500,000, ) A WEEK HE EARNED AS BOY 000 ON $1.20 hirea ‘enough experts from among the before the British steel men knew | where their men had gone. KNEW HOW TO PICK MEN AS MONEY-MAKING LHUTENANTS, ‘There was no holding down his suc- cess then, As canny in his judgment of men as he was in selecting a bus tomaticglly, he gathered around him a wonderful fatnily of associates, men of the type of Schwab and Corey, to the mumber of thirty or forty, all of whom have since necome known as captains of industry. The Carnegie mills ‘spread’ about Pittsburgh for miles. Seeking supply he went to the iron deposits of Northern Michigan, into virgin fields, and obtained future resources almost inexhaustible. Tt was his boast that-he reducedsthé Price bf steel rails from $95 a ton to $26 a ton, {t.was characteristic of him that his peppery temper was hardly ever so roused as when a dis- charged secretary commented. on the boast with proof that the Carnegie mills could have made a fair profit on rails selling at $12 a ton. Slight of stature, frankly vain- glorious over, his wonderful success, he stilt had a sepse of humor about himself. No one could radiate good- will with @ chuckle and a boast more quickly than Andrew Carnegie ad- dressing an audience. “When a man's men speak of him as ‘Andy,’” he told one audience, “there's little danger of labor troubles.” He always insisted that the great Homestead strike would never have happened if he had not overlooked the need of keeping in personal tough with the workers so that they would realize that a man |ike themselves and not an impersonal machine was at the head of the business. In the general reorganization of big businesses, twenty years ago, it be- came apparent to the reorganizers, who made new industrial history on the Morgan yacht and in the Morgan vast possibilities of the steel industry would never be realed for greatest good of the solected few un til it was a one-man business no longer, Whereupon Mr, Carnegie was bought out. The organizers of United States steel paid $420,000,000 In five holdings. mated that Mr. Carnegie had raised | his fortune to about $500,000,000. HOW HE TRIED TO MAKE GOOD BOAST HE'D DIE POOR MAN, shares of the Adams Express Com- pany, With Mr. Scott again he in- vested $200 to give a start to the Scheme of 'T, T. Woodruff for build- ing sleeping cars, He realized $10,000 when the Pullman Company bought out. Woodruff’s rights. Mr. Scott became Assistant Secre- tary of War in the Lincoln Cabinet and Carnegie took post under him as Wirector of Government Railways and ‘Yelegraphs, He was in charge in person of communications on the bat- tlefleld of Bull Run, Soon after the war he borrowed enough to invest $40,000 In a farm on which it was believed oil could be found, He collected more than $1,000,- 000 from that farm. Long before the farm began to} qstify Carnegie’s Investment he de- termined that an, ability to turn out bridge work for railroads was/ The railroads must | have substitutes for, the wooden bridges that were beginning to rot.| He formed the Keystone Bridge Com- pany and secured contracts by an- ucipating & demand of which the| raliroad builders themselves were hardly yet aware, Within three years after the war the bridge business had taught bim that steel and not iron bridges were required, Studying steel, was in his reach. |drew Carnegie that he meant to die It was one of the boasts of An- & poor man, Although carefully carefully administered Mr. Carnegie's benefactions were magnificent. In the closing quarter of a century of his life be devoted, dt is estimated, 300,000,000 to philanthropic and char- itatle ends, His favorite philanthropic enter- prise was the Carnegie Foundation, which 1s now a@ $125,000,000 corpora- tion, directed by men of Mr. Carne- gie's personal selection, ect of aiding public education vy pre- senting public library buildimgs to nwnleipalities. To this purpose he donated $6,000,- 000, which paid for the erection 8,000 munigipal library buildings this country and Great Britain. Of this sum $5,100,000 was devoted to New York City, The fowndation of the Carnegie In- stitute in Pittsburgh has cost Mr. Carnegie's estate thus tar $24,000,000 and it is supposed this great Insti- tution will benefit from the will of its founder, The Carnegie Institute of Washington was established at an expense’ of $22,000,900, Scotch universities benefited in Carnegie went to England and learned of the Bessemer process. He quietly Dandy for Iced Tea CEYLON TEA SEEMAN BROS., New York Proprietors of White Rose Coffee, Canned Foods, Cereals, etc. the extent of $10,000,000, The em- ployees relief fund of the Carnegie Steel Company was enriched to the Frose workmen to start a Bessemer process steet industry in the United States | ness whith would miiltiply itself au- library and in @ few “back offices” | in the Wall Street district, that the) the | per cent. bonds for the Carnegie steel | With this sum it was esti- | bestowed’ and| Toward the close of the nine- teenth century Mr. Carnegie put! into effect a long cherished proj- of | i, eee CARNEG) BE tt Toe Te oh GRO. “THE WORLD HAS. LOST AGREAT MAN AND A GREAT of Inspiring Others to Un- usual Efforts.” , a T have lost a friend greater than whom no. man ever had,” was tne comment of Charles M, Schwab, Chateman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, when informed td- day at his country home at Lor- egta, Pa, of the death of Mr. Carnegie. “It would be difficult for me to find words to express my love and admiration for Mr, Carnegie, | my friend, my partner and asso- | ciate for forty years,” said Mr. Schwab. “He was the greatest man I ever knew and he had a heart 80 filled with tender sentiment, espe- clally with reference to his asso- clates, as to make him beloved, as well ag admired, by all those who came into business or social contact with him, “Mr. Carnegie possessed the faculty of inspiring others to un- usual efforts in a greater measure than my man I ever knew and he always won by expressions of appreciation rather than by criti- cism,” HE world has lost a great man and a great bene- factor to humanity, and a extent of $5,000,000, amount, in bonds, was devoted to the establishment of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, In his passionate desire to promote peace in the world and end all wars, Mr. Carnegie established a world wide propaganda which he supported by lavish donations from his bank account, He had his agents every- where and his writings in support of universal peace were translated into all langua) The Peace Temple at The Hague cost him $1,500,000, Intensely interested in the welfare of teachers and professors, Mr. Car- negie worked for their relief and benefit in his own way, ignoring proj- ects put forward by other million. aires, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of ‘Teaching in the United States, Canada and New- foundland has an endowment of $16,- 500,000 in bonds furnishec by Mr. Carnegie. t Before his health failed Mr, Car- negie Was a diner out and after-din- ner speaker, keenly Interested in cur- rent events and not afraid to express his opinions in public. For many years it was his custom to hold a reception to newspaper reporters at his home in New York on his birth- and the same day and discourse at length on events of the year that had passed and probabilities relating to the years to come. These disquisitions were marked by flashes of humor and thrusts of perception which were characteristic and aroused widespread attention, It was his custom for many years to assemble, once a year, his “boys” of the olf days of the infancy of the steel industry in Pittsburgh and treat them to a great banquet at his home. In recent years the “boys” have con-| tinued the dinner, but Mr. Carnegie | has been represented only by a writ- ten message, generally delivered through his favorite “boy,” Charles M. Schwab. The marriage of Mr. Carnegie's only @aughter, Margaret, on April 23, to Ensign Roswell Miller, U. 8. N., wa the last: social affair the aged phi! anthropist and peace advocate attend- ed here. The ceremony was per- formed at Mr, Carnegie's town house in the presence of 100 guests, the ‘bride standing in a floral bower and Scotch bagpipes playing in accordance with her father’s wish. The bridegroom, son of a former President of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, who died in 1913, had not completed his college eourse when war was declared, | BENEFACTOR,” SAYS SCHWAB “Mr, Carnegie Possessed the Faculty ws ainive w RLD, ‘MONDAY, avauer 11y BY DEATH OF Stocks Are Unaffected, tion, Mr, ket conditions, Evening World portérs were told by actve trade: Wall Street to-day. comment and the revival of steel master’s career, Charles L, Trust Company, said: shock to me as a friend, useful to the busines world and in | Carnegie Foundation, said: "I deeply grieved to hear of Mr. (‘ar-| City and that his will doubtless would | |negie’s death, He was a very great| be probated here, Ho intimated that| jAmerican, belonging to that class the passing of Mr. 'Carnegie would) which, after the Civil War, was quick to appreciate that we had a united | He| | grasped the new machinery which in- |, country and a great opportunity. | ventors placed in our hands at that time and with them threw all. nis | great mental energy into developing our country. When his active busi- ness career closed, with the same |energy he gave @ large percentage of his wealth to movemnts that he be lieved would help the people. “One of the last taiks I hid with him He was about profit sharin mendation of the profit-sharing ‘Steel Vor plans, and s exprensed the belief that the principle of profit sharing was destined to be a great fac- | tor in solving the existing problems | between capital and labor.” | Others who paid tr.bute to Mr, Car- negie included the following | James B, Clews, of Henry and Company, bankers: “The death of Mr. Carnegie removes one of the greatest characters the world has ever known, In these days of labor unrest his career fitting exi.aple of what can be ac- complished by one commencing in the lowest station of life, when 'WALL STREET IS SHOCKED FRIENDS PAY HIGH. TRIBUTES Grief and Recall Incidents in Carnegie’s Career. Except for his heavy bond holdings) sesses the neccssary qualifications for in the United States Stee! Corpora- Carnegie and his influence had no direct connection with mar- in The news of his death came as a surprise to the dis- trict and was the cause of regretful) the memories of many incidents in the Sabin of the Guaranty “It is @ great He was & wonderful man and even since his re- tirgment from active business his In- fluence has always been a healthy & and sane tonic to business conditions, Few men have made themselves 80 spite of all. his other activities he whs first and all the time a great humanitarian.” | George W. Perkins, who ts chair- man of the Finance Committee of the} am Clews | offers’ a 0 Pie STEEL KING; but’ Financiers Express rising in life and makes the most of his opportunities. The name of An- drew Carnegie will last for many ages | to come, not only, however, as the | foremost iron merchant, but for bis/ great works of philanthropy for the venefit qf mankind,” Thomas W. Lamont, of J. P. Mor- gan & Co,--"Mr, Carnegie had ex- traordinary qualities which made him a notable figure an both sides of the Atlantic, He first achieved @ great success in industry, a success which he shared liberally with his vapable leutenants, and then devoted his for- tune and his energy to the causes of education and peace. His libraries, spread over the English-speaking world, his foundation for the md- vancement of teaching, his aid to the uses of peace and Pan-American- iam were wise gifts of enduring value ind service. Elihu Root jr., son of former Unitea States Benator Raot, whose father for years has been Mr, Carnegio’s counsel, expressed his sorrow at new: of the ironmaster’s death and said would inform his father who is at| his summer home in Clinton, N. Y. | Mr. Root declined to discuss Mr.! | Carnegie’s affairs other than to say |that he was a citizen of New York have no effect upon the future of the Carnegie Foundation and similar pbilanthropies established by him. James Bertram, secretary of the Yarnegie Corporation, which was 2 to perpetuate Carnegie’s educational benefactions, was deeply moved. Mr. Bertram was born twelve miles from. the little Scotch town of Dunfermline, . the | birthplace of Mr, Carnegie, and had been his private secretary for many years prior to 1911, when he became connected with the Carnegie Cor- poration, “Mr, Carnegie was my best friend,’ he said. “For twenty years [ was in- \timately associated with him, and his kindness was unfailing.” A recent comment by Mr. Carnegie jon the League of Nations was made | public to-day by Charles C. James & broker in the ‘fimes Building, and originator of the “Carey Cartoons,” Five years ago James issued a car- toon predicting the rule of Kurope by democratic governments, He sent a jeopy of this to Mr. Carnegie who acknowledged receipt of it, by saying that he too hoped that democracies should become the ruling power of all ANDREW CARNEGIE ay EY Serre, Tiga Nia Canmorn 7” i D] wi mrawan syne DIES AT LENOX, MASS., AT THE AGE OF 84 (Continued From First Page.) out the United States telegrams of condolence began to arrive at Shadow | Brook. Some of Mr, Carnegie’ as he called the business associates he trained In the steel business, called | up Mrs. Carnegie and offered their services in her bereavement, Mr. Poynton said an announcement of funeral arrangements would be made after @ consultation between Mrs, Carnegie and her daughter and close friends of the family. Mr. Carnegie was in éxcellent health for a man of his years until the European war broke out in Aug. 1914. He had been comparatively avtive In public Ife and the direc- tion of his widespread philanthiopic enterprises, Mr, Carnegie had given away $350,696,653 up to June 1, 1918, according to a computation of bis benefactions rade by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, ‘The quick developments of early Aug. 1914, which involved nation ’S RISE FROM POOR BOY LIKE INDUSTRIAL ROMANCE Se ‘Ship "Baby Frederika, Cabfare. Everybody has his troubles, Lindberg. Bainbridge Colby is a big man—was Mark Twain's lawyer, and helped T. R. to start the National Progressive Party that time—and Baby Lindberg weighs only what Dr, Holt says they ought to weigh at eleven days. Well, ladies first! which she was born one day out aunts and old bacheloy uncles. Two nights liter a christening party was held. wag ready for Frederika. side two months, Shipping Board, Before leaving for Washington, to hep up to the Plaza Hotel. attracted attention. and away they, went, kid as you ever saw, Sheriff Starts Investigation Attack on Woman by Three Men. (Special Despatch to The Rvening World.) country-side around West Bangor arotieed over the tar-and-feathering morning to Mra, Lefieche’s bedroom working on the State highway. Presence of her e! screaming to the ground, While one the the tar and feathers. ning, a neighbor, vestigation to-day, PITTSBURGH HALF-MASTS and Steel Mills to Shut Down. where Andrew Carnegie laid foundation for his vast fortune after nation in war stunned him. Nevertheless, he kept closely in touch | with international developments until almost completely disheartened him, | in that year he suffered an attack of g''p and thereafter he lived practi cally in retirement, ee Von Out o HARTFORD, Conn., Aug milian von Hoegen of New leged German sympathizer, under in- dictment for treason, was to-day ad- mitted to bail in bonds of $2,000 and ullowed freedom for the first time sin: March 5, when he was retufned to this State from ‘Texas, whither he had fled, Maxi- Haven, aJ- this messago from Mr, Carnegie and he return it to him with comment that the prediction had became true. Under date of Aug. 9 Mr, Carnegie sent to James the following letter: “My Dear Mr. James ir cartoons are prophetic and I rejoice in having lived to see the day, when as J3i put it, ‘man to man the world shall ‘brothers be.’ I believe this happy condition is assured by the League of Nations and that -civiliza- tion will now march steadily on- ward, with no more great wars to mar its progress,” The néws of the death did not reach the Carnegie home in Fifth Avenue until 1 o'clock’ this afternoon, when it was received by Louis Stan- the world. Two weeks ago Mr. James found hardt, who has been the caretaker for twenty years, the steel business, to. to the dead magnate. ered fo halt-mast At the Carnegte Institute crepe his name preparations were made suspend work and other institutions interested in which Carnegie was planned similar action, Gets. Entire Headline pombe Reporter Shouldn’t Have Been in Any Doubt About Little Even if Bain- | bridge Colby Got Stung on If you were a reporter coveriag the arrival to-day at Hoboken of the Scandinavian Mner Frederik VIII, you | wouldn't know whether to start this story with Mainbridge Colby or Baby When Mrs, Anna Lindberg, of An , torfa, L, I, decided to name the little girl Frederika, in honor of the ship on Copenhagen, Capt. A. G..Thomsen wat as pleased af @ grandpa and the 426 jother passengers acted like maiden glorious A hand some pursé was made up for Mamma Lindberg and a handmade wardrobe ir. Colby had been on the other touring France, England and the Scandinavian coun- tries on behalf of the United States make his report, the lawyer wanted He called @ taxicab and got in. Therf was & discussion aboyt the fare. The driver asked $8, The argument Mr, Colby called a. cop, The cop called another cab. The second cabman said $5. M Colby sighed but entered the cal Frederika Lindberg is as pretty a TARRED AND FEATHERED SYRACUSE, N. ¥., Aug. U.—All the Mrs. Prosper Lefleche, forty-two years! old, who is-now in Alice Hyde Hospital at Malone, N. Y., in @ serious condition, Three men climbed 4 ladder Saturday a farmhouse at West Bangor and pulled her from bed while her husband was In the en-year-old son and alx-year-old daughter, they dragged her lants held her another applied At daylight Mrs, Lefleche was found unconscious in thé yard by John Man- Sheriff A, A, Edwards started an in- ‘The victim's hus | pandita, “presumably from New York” | band haw joined in the search for the | offenders, FLAGS TO HONOR CARNEGIE Institute to Be Draped in Crepe) PITTSBURGH, Aug. 11.—This city, the y paid tribute Immediately after reading a despatch announcing 117 when the declaration of war by| Mr, Carnegie’s death Mayor Babcock the United States appeared to have| ordered all flags in Pittsburgh low- plans | were made to drape the building with At the stgel mills which bear SPECIAL SESSION pao Te Justice Weeks Presides at Extra Term for Criminal Inquiry. | Supreme Court Justice Bartow #..” Weeks to-day began to Smith to act on evidence produced by the Lusk committee Bnvestigating radicalism. Bolshevism, Only 22 of the 50 mén summoned — responded, and it takes 28 to make ® grand jury, Justice Weeks bette.) 6 called. Anslstant District Attorney nie asked permission to examine eaeh juror before the oath was adminis« tered, and permission was granted. Mr. Talley made it plain that no man wuld be aceepted who sympathised with the Bolshevist The first man examined was Jullus Bushman, cotton goods merchant, No, 112 Prince Street, who employs 200 men, His afswers were satisfactory to Mr, Talley and-hewas tentatively accepted, The second man accepted was J. Samuel Smoot, No. 216 West sth Btreet. As an executive officer of - Burns Brothers, coal dealers, Be supervises about 3,000 men. Eighteen jurors had been selected by the time the panel was used up. ‘The others will be chosen to-morrow. In warning those already accepted to be allent about Grand Jury affairs, the court told them they were about to undertake a great public duty, which would be a test of their citiven- ehip and their loyal belief in the in- stitutions of their country. of to tor Schaeffer, No. § East epee. No, 419 Weat Harry Cc. Thom of ee anon ee, No. wood Hendrick, retired Brno No. re Reg ap rainard, publisher, Hote! ond B. Almiral, sronitecy No. r4 12 Bast 46th Street benjan Isaac Land West 68th Street, clothing dealer, 14 BANDITS STEAL HOSPITAL BUSSES AT POINT OF GUNS at to Drive Cars to New York. RAHWAY, N. J., Aug. 11.—The poles of this city are making frantic appeals for help to the police of New York, The A. W. Foster Company opers'’-« motor omnibuses between Rahway Station and the United States General Hospital at Colonia, where thousands of sick and wounded soldiers have been cared for In the last year, reported that fourteen of had two of thelr best cars valued at $6, each. According to the chauffeurs, Bawerd Stevens of No, 194 Main Street, Kahway and Bert Ryan of East Milton Avenue, the fourteen men surrounded the om- |nibuses just after midnight vests | mornin”. it revolvers at thelr and forced them to drive t crossing the ferry over the North In West Street, Ryan and Stevens raid, they were told to run for thelr lives, abandoning the machines nat were told the bandits would hunt them down and kill them if they gave any in- formation which led to th vation * of the members of the band. oo STOCK YARDS STRIKE ENDS, Chiceage Workers Return After’ of Police Withdraw, CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—Striking em-' ployees of the packing plants at thei stock. yards returned to work this morning after the last of the police’ guard had been withdrawn by Chief Garrity, in accordance with an agree- ment reached last Saturday, There wag, no report of trouble between the white and negro workmen: Officials of the Stock Yards Labor Council declared they would continue their efforts to unionize all the packing house employees. in to OF COURT TO HEAR "RED? 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