Story of Carnegie's Rise From Penury to Riches arrested for riot and bound over for Widow and trial. Consequently, some of these dis¬ Mr. Carnegie9s Daughter Rose From Penniless to appeared, among them Iho Burgess of Homestead. Some time afterward my Carnegie Professor Van Dyke, of Rutgers Boy friend, College, was ordered to California for of his health. Upon his return he told me One Richest Men in the World that he had met the ex-Burgess work¬ ing ns n laborer in a Mexican mine at Sonora. I asked him to offer McLuckie a-iy help ho might need, and upon his Life Story of Scotch Boy return to the West he did so. Who Amassed One of "It was D.d White in Andy." Estates in the "Meanwhile McLuckie had got a posi¬ His Largest Benefaction* Largest tion with the Sonora Railway driving His theory of Like Fiction wells, and was succeeding ndmirably. .r World Reads The professor said: 'You don't know whose money I was told to help you with.' He said that he had no ¿dea. 'Well, it. was Mr. Carnegie's.' Then ~ ¦. Gave Away Many Millions ceme the slow, earnest response. 'That was damned white in Andy.'" Samson Mr. Carnegie said this proudly and "f :.i.". -. his smile started a general laugh. Final Years Spent in Spread¬ "When I talked to the Homestead Took reliera upon my return I told them Two Education terms ing Through my partners had offered liberal and I could not have offered more. Libraries; Heroism Was One roller said: 'Oh, Mr. Carnegie, it Columns wasn't a question of dollars! The boys Rewarded would have let you kick them and they 'r . It is suggested that Sam¬ wouldn't let another man 3troke their ; Carne% " .;16,01 son had a keen idea of ad¬ hair.' Andrew Carnegie, the outstanding in 1901 the Carnegie Steel Company vertising. Samson took two figure of nineteenth century In¬ was merged into the United States solid columns, with the re¬ dustrialism, will go down throug'i tho Steel Corporation, and in this year Mr. from a as the o Carnegie retired business, with sult that he brought down ages very personification fortune of about $250,000,000.» "Triumphant Democracy." '¦ lonai b'llm . rvn the house. The bonds of the United States Steel opyright by 11 term ' this column Overcoming almost Insuperable ob Corporation which he held yielded a Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Roswell Miller- By taking in stades his unusual en> an ¡;igantic income, of which he always by ;y the that, he the New York Tribune we sheer tenacity of purpose, Andrew ¿.ave, liberally, and fact aid "The man who dies rich "lies dis- his as it? s'hools. in¬ endeavor to attain rose from a humble .free and his to administer during property public and, publicity Carnegie mes showed that money was not dies v.rt to these. When I was to graced" lifetime, disgraced." deed, adjunct and build up the house. senger boy wealth bevond ";¦ the goal of his ambition. "That is the Mr. attention was called a boy in Pittsburgh, Colonel dreams of avarice. Un to Carnegie's rose from irospel 1 preach," he said, referring to a paragraph in a London paper which of Allegheny, a man 1 can neve obscurity to a unique position in th these words, "that is the gospel 1 prac¬ famous tion without of d Cross referred to his declaration feelings '¦ Envelope Bag world. tise, and that is the gospel I intend "that to die rich is to die disgraced." gra' itt.de, opei ed Im little Yet despite the tremendous effort to practice during what remains of and he was asked what he was going to four hundred books to bo put into he life." , Andrew everything uncjertool my ido with the fortune he had amassed. Saturday afterno h .vas in at Carnegie's meteoric rise wv. Despite his busy life, Mr. Carnegie "Tell that editor," replied Mr. Car- anee him due entirely to the offer ! "to watch and see. 1 I shell books. No on« he « to opportunity found time for literary work. His first negie, hope bul all in a land of freedom and of not the definition, sometimes can know the inl "Round the was justify free speech. This fact he emphasize book, World,'' pub¬ of a as a mar. which was awa all this he an deserved, philanthropist Saturday in his writyigs, and i:i all hi lished in 1879. In gave with a great, deal of money but very new book had. ¡va of across Pacific might be speeches. Moreover it had a prcfoun account his trip the little sense." in -uro-; | effect the Ocean to China and and revelling these trei upon course he adopted foi Japan, India, "My first act upon retiring from busi- solved, if ever wealth ci me 1 the administration of his vast fortur' hack home by way of the Suez Canal said Mr. in the testi- I for .tid Several books fot- ncss," Carnegie, it should be us« d to IV.' the development of mankind, am' Europe. similar rnon;, in February, 1915, that other -'' the of but bis best known work is already quoted, libraries, poor boys furtherance science. iowed, "was to give $5,000,000 to the workmen recei te opporl unit ie Triumphant Democracy; or, Fifty of the Steel as a Fathered World Peace Plan i'eary' March »of the This Carnegie Company for which we were indebted From Republic." parting gift, $4,000,000 for pensions to noble ma ." the very first he looked upo' look was widely rend in America and men maintain the seal in the and $1,000,000 to Third in his list came Of genuine pin leather, black his fortune as a trust urope, and excited much comment and For or great bestowed libraries and halls 1 had built for them. or extension of medica Intei colon, silver plated mountings. him riticism. He treated of the progrey.-; I when later the upon for the betterment of man was greatly pleased pits -i and other euro: pri One extension, 3 tight pockets, J kind. With this f the American Republic largely as an United States Steel saw tit point in view he so' dvance in which Corporation to do with the all« ia1 of human framed silk-lined coin compartment. [himself the task of it fot material'prosperity, to duplicate my gift, adding $4,000,000 and which re more es administering e as (.he surest test of the for I have. suffering, ~r\ Fitted 1:1th leather and the of art and regarded more to the fund pensions. purse mir¬ development education, of claims of pecially concerned with t! prev .. ror. Handle at science. validity the popular gov¬ just reaj the report of this joint fund top. Size 7\$ x (>Yi ernment to Of this book rather than the cure of hun I One of his most recent in the superiority. with great satisfaction. was inches. $21.26 gifts "The York Nation" "There His fourth idea to « « latter realm was the establishment of A ¡¡drew e New said: I "The Hero Fund which I was privi lie but he did Silver plated block letters, each Carnegi is, perhaps, hardly a word which passes' to interested parks, Mount Wilson Observatory, built for leged found has always little this Iin« ime the never fos »¡ways fr,r letter. 63c the ihe truth. It is only when it is placed me most * along p^ special purpose of studying tho deeply. op« rig of public halls a to sun. This had a before us in this vivid way that we "1 not rest until 1 had founded remarkable observatory is become moulder in pottery, and In attempting to release them one wire could ¡dying of them with organs. Thi just about to work of a realize the stupendous development." hero funds with a total of begin adding to frequently visited club where checker suddenly fie v up and cul a frightful capital $11,- Cross Bottle Set the store of human knowledge. players gathered. Young Andrew at gush in hi.; face. "Triumphant Democracy" passed 790.000. The report of the annual j Andrew was born in times on one through eight editions in England, and held at Pittsburgh on Jan¬ Carnegie Dun- accompanied him, and oc¬ Oil." has been translated into French. Ital¬ meeting, fermline, the parliamentary burgh of casion met there a Mr. Brooks, who was "Striking uary 20, shows awards given to forty 'body, P'ifeshire, on of a If!.-', next successful venture ian, Spanish, Dutch and Japanese. heroes or their wives and families. Scotland, November 25, manager telegraph office. The business In Carnegie Began Life 1837. His was a elder told Brooks was the with sever, 1891 Mr. Carnegie contributed an with a total of awards since the birthplace one-story Carnegie he didn't purchase capital-i article to 1,027 structure in Moodie Street, back know what to do with his ists of the Storey 'arm in Oil City, The Tribune entitled "How fund began Every case is At War just boy. to the mam operation. $1.20 Weekly Wage o| of some gas works. At the time he "Send him 1o my office," said the latter, Penn., where oil had been found tho Get Rich," thesis of which most carefully investigated. We re came into the world the town of Dun- "and 1 will make a messenger of him." year previous. This venture is re¬ was that native ability and industry absolute and are sufficient to insure quire certainty proof fcrmline was rioted for its extensive Mr.
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