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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,
THE LATE MR. ANDREW CARNEGIE.
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In his private life he was altogether free from those vulgarities which some
Anything blatant, anything stentatious to leave uglier matters out of the ques- tion world have been repugnant to him. Indeed, a man who made Herbert Spencer and Land Morley his friends could hardly,
industrious ant
instances.
• Andrew - Carnegie, is dead. The words sound like an echo, of the distant past, The asure of Carnegies linked with hopes or dreams of an age of peace and placul jurisea salts, in trim palace at The Hagne composing the quarrels of uations. Is suggests a world blooming much relish for the gaudiness of With free libraries,
wealth.
He owned, as all the world populations improving their minds by the knows. a vastly in the Highlands, Bit 'study of masterpieces, it creatis great unless he was entertaining guests at gifts to universities designed to speure, Skile, his wife and be veil in a little that there should indeed b
a career open cottage or a not much larger bungalow to every mus
s talent. fortune for anyone in the neighborhood.
He played unif wh ha has thrift and brains. So we have and would declare for he had no fimculty for many a sear thought of Andrew
in joking that it was his one serons Carnegie as the naked millionaire,
He intere
He was an ardent fisherman. seemed to an incarnation of the ideals Bat his tastes may in best illustrated his
Victorian
He would have two haphazard
Fr would for the
made the most sublime example for the ever.
own chur eti
gomon property of | gospel of self-heŝp as preached by the American uillinaires, a private railway
late Samuel Surides. He had all the
car. He preferred to travel like the rest virtues of that schoul and of the age of the nation. Though he inved - the which Produced it. the did
did not escape some of its failings. No breath of he would never take a boy scandal ever touched his man. 1. rum
No sketch of his character would be to fortune, passing the dreams and almost complete without a word of his perennial the comprehension of avarice, byhean which in his enemies could not attack, he said. " motto would be
1 overhaul a ent of Caution, shrewdness,
ess foresight, great All's well, since all gross better, My organising power, these were his weapons therry is that theer is authing in the
fight for dollars The methods of brigandage or fread which have helpedurld that in tot improving, and there ve helped is no limit to the ascent of min. would other magnates of industry
perfection here in this life upon earth. negic It was not cant hypering the longer I live, the more I am brought which made him in senson, and to into contact with tuen and women of such season (nveigh against speculation. With ne the in which he was bort he dived ngelie natures that all I can say is, if
inge
the angels in heaven are much better
HAPPY HIT
CIGARETTES
in
ייי
be dated from
irto-
pros
of livelihove and made this change
The lesson
and
and ultimately several were put up in ] This company was prosperous from its Dunfermline, and a day cute when Wil-foundation, and a revolution in American
engineering practice may liam Carnegie's employer told him that its construction of the rss iron bridges it would be impossible to give him any that spanned the Ohio River. The Univa: further weaving to do at home. Andrewless successful. In 1968 the rising
tron Mille his next venture, proved no Carnegie in his later arts could still muster, now on the flood tide of vividly remember the time when his father perity, paid a visit to England. Here returned to the cottage after delivering substituting steel rails for iron.
say that the railway companies were The his last piece of work, and had to tell his Bessetter pro
Process had revolutionised the wile that his sid ears
He had already secured the had been taken from him. burnt deep into my heart." Andrew would Edgar Thouson Steel Bail Worke saf, though he was hat 10 years old when
very soon he was turning out anils with which at cane. He resolved, child us he was, to
and by the aid of high
protective cabe himself and his family beyond the
duties, he was able to compete with Eng- danger of such tragedies of helplessness, market, and simmst to dictate his w
wanafacturers & in the American Perhaps the
most important part of the to an ambitious boy was not the
of United States
Failways Never before did such an opportunity present month existener, but the proof that the future of industry
itself to a manufacturer of iron and steel, was dependent on winery.
and the world may never see
such another. nes result was that by 1999 Bir Car William Carnegie cuald see an Eature negie had bought out bis rivals of the for his craft or himself or his family in Homestead Worksoft Pittsburg. and had the old country. His wife and be reacquired seven distinct works for the pro
duction of iron and steel, al within
(son of the perils 201, a hunt to 4 to the proprietors of the 200,000
The
opera, and was often to be seen there, I solved to sell the looms and the chers radius of five miles of Pittsburg, with
rins..
home and emigrate to America. the two hors Andres and Thomas might And Carnegies had friends in Allegany City, some better chaucy of fortune. The
fandieralt was no more wanted there Pennsylvania, and thither they went. four runterlie William Carnegie found work in a text
& textile factors. At the age of 12 Andrew Carnegie began sart his own living as a bobbin box in the wages were $1.50, a week
aggregate productive capacity of Lenco tons of stee? 140.000 tons of pig-iron per month whil steel ingots.
The penniless bobbin by became millionaire at 50. By the time he was so his steel factories employed an army of 15, (VX) are tin, and other subsidiary industries h In mining, in coke produc
had under his control as many more.
2,000,000.
throney did not appeal to Andrew Car- not say that ultimately there will not me, mit Kars later, us he tells The capital value of his interests he put
-say.
fervently in the cult of individuals, they run the risk of being so no messenger...
anns.
famous declaration. "We are all Socialists now. inust have disgusted his good for nothing. Perhaps we mas His history "must not forget to
view of human nature his attitude to sonic Ploodstained conflicts with fruconnect with this charitable and hopetuk How far he was responsible for. When he was living at Skilo,
Carnegie conducted a service nt
the the Homestead strike, with its appallingly for the tenants of the estate every
okener, is much disputedly maintain
Butertain; Sanday evening. But he said once tha he could on cession
te da as he would with his own. a right to
at the great assize a man may be sure ure bow he has worshipped God
will
not be but how he has served man his charities, manificent as they were
designed faster individual effort trash in all religions, but in no theology age
would never subscribe to foreign missions. on for old age, if it were the old
und in spite of his rendinos to give, ha years of service, he was not unwilling to make when he established a great schege
His sanguine optimism, too. inspired of Pensions for, teachers
Rewards for him to efforts in the cause of universal deeds of distinction he might give, and and perpetual peace which now ree the Ber Funds
War, be were founded. But strangely aloof from reality
IN the foulest blot di the vastly greater proportion of his bene proclaimed. factions were planned to bear fruit in civilisation." and whatever" judgment.
his oper
posterity CRA pronounce pen that ing of the Scottish and nib;
ehnege we, who bear the mrden" of the his other innumerable gifts to education struggle of civilisation against savagera, were dictated by his faith in the principle can hardly imagine that it will agres
El-help. lie was fond of advising acilist.
with Andrew
drew Carnegie's reasons for in young people to say to themselves, most dishonpured word in our language. Wrote is the place is at the pp. One of his favourite maxims was Person's.
No one can
No wan ever toughed another man' cheat you out of altinute success.
bat d
honour. no nation
dishonoured yourself.
All honour's wounds are So he set himself to give another nation. everyone the chango chimb, can eat self-indicted" But our day has seen the that in stimulating their efforts to excel
The truth martyrdom of Belgium. and hp mph other he was doing his that Carnegie in his strength and his duty by the world!
weakness was child of the Victorian The gospel, of the Manchester school and we ved nut forget that thers waugh for bit. It did not include, the was truth in that cospel- was good with the seed that there are causes for which ain will and met die and ideals nobler
than prosperity.
It is a mark of the sanie spirit that allow Carnegie held that "there was
the future. His free
H.
DYING RICH. With all his faith in individualises, he did not consider himself ultimate the sightful owner of his vast wealth had. naturally, 1 miliamadres, main- vulgar objection t taining that as admes ar
community.
able"
she will calculated pallor of h
112
Bever
to appeal alike to the commonsense and eyes seem extract the man
the vanity of the American people, But The salissur
the
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the happiest boy alive when he obtained in his own account of his life, bewas employment at 820 (10) a work as 4
His business career ended with the Formation in the spring of 1901 of the 110 delivering messages young Amesican Steel Trust When thay vast Carnegie, instead of reading the adven organisation was established, mainly by tletes of Dead eye
Dick, the Terror of the efforts of the late J. Pierpont Morgan,
the Carnegic properties forme telep was listening to the clicking telegraph instruments.
its The tick of the inst
foundation. instruant fascinated me.
Thus the value put he wrote
on the Carnegie interests was tore than afterwards! yenry
1 tried to understand it by listening, by going to the ofice early0,000,000 Andres Carnegie retineh and playing with the key, and I was your basis," as he put it. of ESCI0,000,
From business at the ae of 64. on the able to receive any messige by ear alone.' This was
real achievement. At that in the country who could take messages time there were only two other persons by ear expeditiously, Young Carnegie soon became a regular operator at 325 (23) a month. His father having died. the youth had become the family's main support, for Tom Carnegie was too young. to help.
LA RAILWAYMÁS,
*
ther was swiftly begun. One chapter of effort was chowed
The money had been made, The next thing was th spend it. The chief occupation, it would seem, of the rest of Andrew Carnegie's if With the establishment of free libraries.
NOTABLY GIPTS,
But it was not on libraries along that And nos came the tide in Carnegica | Carnegie's millions were lavisfied. We life which taker at the flood, let on to have spoken of his sanguine faith in in fortune. Tom" Scott-the great Thominternational arbitration and the cuming A. Sect. president of the Pennsylvania reign of peace." He hardly set any bounds Railroad took a fancy to the young man. There was no better telegraphist in Pitts. Conference and pound out money to to the hopes raised by the first Hague" burg and Colonel Scott made him his build in its honour The Hague Temple private operator, at $35 a month. A of Peace. More grandine, pay in private operator be so won the railroad guine was his establishment of a trust magnate's conEdence that he became, his fund of £2,000,000 to hasten the abali- private secretary, and then he was on the tion of international war: which is the high road to wealth.
foulest blut ou civilisation. The trustees were to use their own judgment in work expected that the day would come soo ing for this purpose Andrew Carnegie
LU
the Pullman sit
*
That
It was Colonel Scott who Brat taught the youth how to pake money earn more money lesson Carnegie never forgot His mother mortgaged their house. Infi With the 800 thus raised, Andrew bought carded, by the English-speaking race, the which had gone all the family savings.
When war is discarded," he wrote, a duelling and slavery have been dis Adams Express noch.. on "bia astuta employer's advice. The investment paid trustees will consider what is the next hid: $10 a
210 a month, and the
most degrading evil whose banishment Burtgage was on the whole, "well worth cust to the A portrait of Andrew Carnegie in his son reused. Next, he interested Presi will most advance the progress, elevation, He was fond of pointing later years would show a tan much below dent Sentt in T. T. Woodruff a model of and happiness of amn. And so, onward- out that the innsses of the people in the middle height, and not very stoutly a slping ear. The Pennsylvania Rail from century without end, my trustees
For miny years his hair and any country are prosperous and comfort.built.
road took upy and Carnegie when the of each age shall determine how best to Hionaires.
as there are mi beard had been white, and this, with the man was incorporated, was "let in aid inan in his upward march to higher made his dark in Kround Boor, as American pre- and higher stages of development, for now ken and bright.
moters say. He had': to borrow, the
we know that man was crented not with to pay the first assessment on his shares. he would al fervently proclaim that was
was oddly contrasted with
an instinct of his own degradation, but the
but the cars afterwards puid handsome that he is imbued with a desire and power The Real Burley, Cigarette to applauded the introduction and that he gave an impression of power and tano, ladder. It is easy to dlanib after sen bana Lavourite of his. It occurs,
drich, dies disurared strength of his how and jaw. It was by dividends on
thei
"And improvement to which perchance. of death this
more than the fire of his thus, he wrote in his
phant there may be no limit short of perfection. " "did 1
I get in foot on declared that there is
even bere in on earth." His hands and feet were that, ination mall, and, perhaps, he
A whatever to onehalf of the
It is a proof of bis foresight that millionaire's h being taken by the hai
littl guileless
Woodruff's tiny model was the germ of vanity about them.
even with a identity of phrase. more At death."
that great institution which we know. s Andrew Bat
than once in his writing Begir lips auch it protestation was trist therwise he took little interest in here pretence, & Some time ifore be died, was always shabby, and
When the Amerit in war broke out the
The gift to the Scottish Universitie furtune was estimated at £10.000.000 100
for large
always had a hat e for him.
This, no doubt, great Tom Scott was made Assistant Secreestablished a national system of educa was of signat importance. One man's act But his known benefactions had even picturesque exaggeration, be cur:
tary of War. He remembered,
Young Carnegie, and called him to. Washington tien, for which there is no warallel in the badly, dressed. Many
organisation of the rail- world. £10.400.000 him an air of gager precision and deway and legraph service of the Federal every native "of Scotland can, if b
Thanks to Andrew Carnegie. 300,000 fauce, if not truculence, which was cer Army. The work was well done, but its works, obtain all that a University has 3,200.000 tainly not characteristic He seemed to price was a breakdown in health, which to give. most observers to hok like a man rather drone Carnegie abroad for awhile. There 5,000,000 W, rather tired by the battle of life. is a pleasant irony in the fact that the libraries, but a writer of books.
A Carnegie was not only a founder of 200,000 Such at least he was in his later years. ardent apostle of peace at any price gave 2,000,000 Bu in spite of indifferent health, his se of the best years of his young man 1,800.000 energy was abundant until extreme ald
hood to work for his country's ariny. 1,000,000
TEE BOBBIN BOX.
FROM, OIL TO STEEL. 1,000,000 There are many elements of the pie-
350.000 turesque in the story of Carnegie's life. Sumter had begun the great war. Car Before the gun that blazed above Fort 400,000 He began the world without a penny. negie had 260,000 He retired from business sixty years after rich. Like Mr. Rockefeller, he was in struck oil and struck it 150,000 one of the two richest men in the world-at the start. In 1802, with several of a less strenuous man.
to put it no higher with a fortune of associates, he purchased the Storey Farm, -4,000,000 one £50,000,000 In this of
moth
on Oil Creek Pennsylvania, for $10.000. vast combinations
of It proved what prospectors call a bonan aphorisms. Many of them are as good . Andrew Carnegic was a great maker of 120(XX) capitals,
indus
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Libraries
the schedule:
Funds
Water Institute, Pittsburg..
Carnegie
ingout
Institution Wash
Peace Foundatioṛ
Scottish Universities Hero Funds
Carnegie Stor Company's Em Dinline Endowment Peace Temple Toul listsburg. «
The Hagu Allied Engineers' Societies...... Bureau of American Republics. Small Colleges in the United
States...
County of Cambria, Pennsy
Ivania
To Fight Pellagra
King Edward's Hospital Fund,
London
Miscellaneous in the United
United States
Tradesmen's Associations Miscellaneous in Europe Carnegie Corporation of New
York ... Dunfermline Trust (additional)
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nutive love of sports and open-ai* recrea Maintaining throughout his life his tions Carnegie in this "respect was very much more fortunate than any other bro- ther millionaires to when the accomplish to live for. He never sank himself com ment of ambition ha, often left little mor pletely in those tremendous enterprises which would have almurled the vitality
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and factory and grande built dividends. You paid $1,000,000 in cash as the best proverba. For their wit and ..
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the money he had made
A grant thing this instantaneous. bis very worst.
virtuous apprentice, wh for his thrift tin to fo be came to Milling photo aply; o has do time to look
himself into a
more
Individualism will continuy, but the
up a manufacturing firm which eclipsed in oil Andrew Carnegie-the bobbin boy shrewd sense, and perhaps also for their 100,000 every other in the world. The history of
was now a capitalist-dropped petroleumery human limitations, the well de industry, it has been claimed, has no other 3,000,000 record of success, so rapid and so vast.burg was already a busy centre of indus hasty list:
and took up iron. Before the war Pittserve to be collected. Here is a brief and 80,000 It was won by a man who, had
try, and rapid development was in 500,000
train- ing his life-work.
for
In looking back you never feel that The greatest ofgress all round. Andrew Carnegie, Fok iron masters know nothing of metallurgy in on
upon any occasion you have acted too. 5.000,000 His history reads not so much
headquais
post of vantage 2 E
the generously, but you often regret that you 2.000.000 record of rare commercial
of the railway, saw around didn; give enough." old-fashioned nerelercial genius 13 xu
structive fielded fresh
a scene of bustling energy. which £46,160,000 moral, another version of the tale of the ambition, The basis of this mucifcence was the and industry was shrewdest of eyes for the main chance. blessings. And finally, we may
rewarded He could drive as hard a bargain as any man, and was proud of it. When a Com mittee of Congress was investigating the alfairs of the Steel Trust, Carnegie, called
on subpoena, said blandly,
" I am surprised I could have been such a fool as to sell my property to the Steel Cor One of his favourite stories was to tell bow in early life he had the better of J. De Rockfeller in a deal. But for all
by all world!"
his
career sums up the economic of
in
the
up of millionaire will be only a trusted for the
great and growing building Asi
poration on the basis of £88,000,000," and scientific methods in manufacture, Tailway Company decided
to
"There ik no price'too dear to pay for perfection.
"Be King in one line, nut a Jack of
the nineteenth century. His father was in day by day from the scarred and
he watched the trains of coal wazon com 007, 1 ruined by the industrial the introduction of
WHEN by scorched hillsides where the mines
were which being worked, the future ironmaster was progress of the industrial revolution, to destroyed the old bandicrafts. To the possessed with an enthusiastic desire to all trades."
he one of the leaders of the New Inferno.
tu For heaven our home, substitute home the
stupendous development of mechanical It
about
this tune that the our heaven." Andrew Carnegie owed all his milliona
Break orders' to save owners every November, 1835, in a one-storied cottage, America, by iron structures, and the first Carnegie was born in Dunfermline in such us were usual in these days in
their wooden railway bridges, time."
Put all your eggs in one basket and his zest in making money, no doubt he which still stands to commemorate the bridge to be changed was the one at p then watch that basket." way sincere when he declared that be event. In one of its low bare
which looked upon his wealth
"The present moment is our aim; the was under Carnegie's control. next we never me." a sacred William Carnegie, the father, toiled This
Was his first great opportunity. Ho of others. H
declared his belief it hard to provide for the wants of,
There is, one sure mark of the future that democracy would not much
for bridges, and he resolved, if his expenditure tolerate the present unequal distriler small family, for those were the days
possible, to be a leader in this great work wealth. The solution which he
eet hand labour side in everything connect bold step of proposing to undertake the
when steam-power was fant
of transformation. thrusting
To think expect ed, was, in accordance with his generaled with the textile industry. Factories,
with Carnegie; he, therefore, took the tay it on early." trend of thought, an extension of the in which steam lacus performed the weav co-operative system, that is, a wider dis
iron bridge work for his railway com amounts to much ing processes with ten times the rapidity pany, and the result was the establishment tribution of capital, not Communism or Socialism
of the old hand-looms, were being estab under his direction of the Keystone to die poor, and thus avoid disgrace.”...... lished in all large manufacturing centres, Bridge Ironworks at Pittsburg.
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rooms
burg
wood
trust to be red for the good and late at damask weaving, and found saw that iron was destined" to supplant millionaire: his revenues always exceed
of
リ
his
to act
"Be your own boss ny'soon as you can j ́
Work that one is not glad to do never
Smite all the time." "The aim of the millionaire should be