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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1949.

Masters of Money.

ANDREW CARNECTE

The poor Scots boy who

gave away £64.000.000

by

PHILIP MORTON

HE cynics smiled when Andrew Carnegie, asked by an Industrial Commission what his business was, replied:

"My chief business is to do as much good as I can in the world-I have retired from all other business."

But he meant it, this little emperor of steel. His creed was that the man who dies rich des dis- graced, and he toiled as hard to get rid of his millions as he had done to mass them.

want.

He was born

to poverty-but not grinding Willle Carnegie, his lovable, dreamy father, had been a master weaver, but the machine age- It was 1836--was breaking craftsmen, and his mother, strong and resourceful, had to sell vegetables and bind shoes to eke out the income

SAILED

to

now land

AMERICA

hope.

mountaineering in Switzer band, opern-going in Italy, truring the art galleries of Europe.

い inspired,

trove, but not

Where he was born

name he could never spell, some- time impishly making it Rocky- feller, steamiers

bought

Bect гL

of bull railway tu carry run vre and harbour, and

from Lake Superior to Pittsburg. his share in the year's pronts directed, was £5,000,000, always

The spot, where the weal

2

they sold up

and foil were.

and sailed to the new lunet

"No. 8 furnace broke all

Twelve year-old Andrew records toslav." n sobbed his heart art at the tive

last glimpse of

Dunferm

plantly.

Fast

Pars

fine, in Fifeshire, the

glimpse

until. 30

later, he returned naber as triumphal arch s

il

quering hero.

51 rainsharkir. Alleghes. Pittsburg. drew's first jub, as

Colton brought in 5x.

umuddy

An bobbin factors,

lie rose to 8. in another factory, but here he had to dig the bobbins ir ail es cellar, and the smeti so na sealed him, that even 1521 old man a whil† of oil made him ill.

wired

ExCCU-

trium

He had his tolmur troubles, but his methods with workunen friendly und usually

weje Surconatul

At one argument with a comi- #utter a worker said "Now I Carnegie, you take my

10

"Non of that Blity." Aashed Chinegie "Taking another man's Job at pardonable offence

hochk wurkmen "Langhter, dispute over

were the

other Car-

P

At had he sold out to Mimar £80,000,000 for the lot,

S o m o people #neered

thn!

was

all Vata- glory, That

have no ane could

brary

A

less Car-

negie's name

ten furnaces doing" Begi snuppect back overworked the

78111,

he admitted. "I was not care- ful enough in considering one of which had to be shared sifted by secretaries. the traita of human e duraner, DEVOT

kamwing fatigue myself."

und with assocantes

Concluding the final dent be- tw.ea

The two multi-million- wires took. In munutes, and when play. it was all over Andrew shook his suid "Now, Pierpont, 1 at the happtest matt an the world, I have unloaded the burden on your back and i am of to play

He knew how to One of his holiday com. panions wrote: "Andy is so overflowing that it is ex- tremely difficult Lo keep him within reasonable bounds."

On all

rival's fund and

was blazoned all over it, this was not true.

Applications poured in, to be Carnegiela confdant would walk into the

and say, "Here are shudy with an armful of papers 40 or 50 Ubruries that need your O.

The Scottish education. His gift of £2,000,000 to the foun universities of Scotland was the biggest exlucntional endowment known in Eureqe.

Even vaster was the scope of 11es Fortune was estimated at the Carnegie Institute £00,900,000

Washington, including the Mount

thea jamborres So he got st job an tele he rarely

Wilson 100m. telescope, carried money.

15h a partner to share his graph boy and found it He left all that to

feisure He has married, ut 51, his

But he got more sentimental paradise In be

running secretaries.

Louise Whalfbestel 30 years his pleasure out of buying Pitten- Unee he

WWN Jur, daughter of a New York erteff Glen, Turned off a

romantle beauty London bus morhant 11 a curtship spot, at which he had cast long- beenuse he had not got the on her sebark, day after day the mg eyes in childhood, when he fare.

was on the outside looking In.

He gave it to Dunfermline,

about in the streets.

፡-

Second step forward: rane to 42 His a month. Os more than the other boys manger

because

thought

201

th fre

WAS worth

AT

splant-

He whispered the

to

VOWED rotire at 35

T33 he sat down to tot up his income, mule it wand then

chid secret to his bite ver £10,000 a year.

Jittin

SJA

benederd man ind the alender get were seen tittuping through Central park

They were pleally happy

(

bevane a father al

ORGANS all over the world

there were thr 8,000 costing £1,400,000 BVPT America and

orgatis,

82, ant they t e bondres MEN above Cluny Castle, in the pine forests of the Grampians, to dotted all celebrate the birth of Margaret, Betalu

Wotiek: #ful wean"

old dur In l that wrote on a single sheet the lus Saturday night, but did not most remarkable document produce the solid silver sar- of his life. prise to lather and mother

It was found. yellow and

breakfast.

until Sunday morning fragile, after he died. lock- ed in a private box of per. sonal treasures.

Mother

subsequent

thrilled me ass

wepi. "No AUCEPAS ever

this wrote Carnegie later.

slick,"

He inventeil exerting fairy

stories for her, but they all had

wrote a favourite Scottish poem to have a happy ending: he re-

because in the original the hero

was drowned.

From Cluny they moved to Skibo, П 32,000-acre estate

In his confession of faith he vowed to retire at 36, two years later. "Beyond In Sutherland complete with a this figure

never

earn.

waterfall on which Carnegie fusisled. "Where's m773 water-

A better post, with the Make no effort to increase fail?" he complained when he Pennsylvania Railroad had the fortune, but spend the first saw the property. one drawback: it plunged surplus cush each year for him into world of "coarse benevolent purposes. men, which gave me a scun- "Cast aside business for chewing ever except for others.

CHANCE to show flair THE new work gave the cocksure, youth a chance to show his flair.

The Duke of Sutherland, this agreed to part with it. neighbour, had one and finally

wero

Carnegie

SKIBO where success led him

Any deno Morley, and £1,000 a year to mination could John Burns, who had attacked have them him bitterly. Roman Catho-

Jewish.

"You always

can't trust

How happy giving it all away ilc, Sweden- made the old monl But still that borginn,

or secret soul-searching went on.

Ho told a a friend: "I have no Du! on a religion to speaks of Sunday morning, when the other what the pulpit people are in church I like to float about in my swimming says, but you can always de pool while a Highlander in ell pend

on what his regalia plays sacred rausic the organ on his pipes.

says," WGR

"And as I le

there in the

Carnegie's com- water thinking over my posses- ment.

sions the conviction comes to mo Money foun- that if a commission were sent tained oul to down from heaven to stess

promote peace what I have, I should be de- campaigns. No prived of a great part of it."

one knows just

how much, but one Christmas transferred

over £2,000,000 in ten bonds to the Endow ment for International Peace.

The Hero Funds, an- other source of laughter to the cynics, cost him over £2,000,000 in en

years,

These were his favourite gifts. *This one," he said, "ernwled up me ait back. No one suggested

it to me."

"The way of the philanthro- pist is hard," he complained.

The last £30,000,000 of his

steel bunds were the hardest: II reined that he could not get rid

ut them.

So he created a Trust for the advancement of knowledge.

'WHERE did I get it all?”

Hand given away?" he asked much did you say I

his secretary not long before he

died. The answer was £4,000,- 000.

"Good heavens, where did i ever get it all?" he asked.

There was still a dole left for the privata pensioners, who included writers, statesmen, teachers, and labourers.

Some flimsy claima qualified, such as that of an old lady who held Camegle's books while ho ran a race at school.

Apart from pensions, in his will he left £2,000 a year to Lluyd George and Honest John

C. V. R. Thompson

Ellis Island Excuse No Longer Works

NEW YORK. African and Asiatle origin, and ALLIS ISLAND has lost to instruct is students that "the

and Latin- ! immi- American races are superior.

WASHING DISHES in a New

Eits favourite excuse for Saxon

Constitution, Christianity, and

como an American,

ner (disgust) at or smoking tobacco, also at Man must have an idol; the

King Edward was a visitor at Skibo. swearing, which fortunately amassing of wealth is one

would-be "I like that," said the keeping remained with me through of the worst species of idol, pointing to the sewn to grants.

gother lun Juck and Stars life."

The atry."

courts ruled that W York hotel 31 years ago for and Stripes that always flew "moral tarpitude is no rea- £2 a week, Louls Ritter made He kept the vow, but it from the tower. was 80 years later when "he

son in these enlightened a vow. One day he swore he "Your Majesty, it is coming days to consider a man retired and he

a would buy the hotel. Today Was then to that," replied Carnegie, who doubtful citizen."

Rittera millionaire now from almost 100 times as thought the old country was

mink coats, bought the hotel, wealthy.

decaying and

A German-bom professor, 44– Anglo-American

His first Improvement--more year-old Alfred Schmidt, rúinet Steel Alled the interven- fusion must come.

elbow room in the kitchens. the question. Already lan- ing years. Carnegie had

WORLD'S great

guage teacher at a New York DEQUEST by an airline to adopted a formula-Put all

college, Schmidt wanted to be Washington: May we fly a your eggs in one basket and.

regular. guests

super-dirigible OCTTM then watch the busket."

Inspectors asked him scores of vice to Moscow? But n US. The basket was steel.

questions about his politics and airline had, Washington's per- TUIE Skiba, queste THIE

were the the passed with top marks. But mission years ago to fly plants Friendship with Besse- political,

stors of the world's stage he was too frank. in answering to Moscow. And Moscow still mer started it.

Ilterary, Carnegie musical.

scientific, "social" questions.

He admitted to adventures

has not said, "Come on in " enterprises, and got rid of most.of his other

Poor

and then" with unmarried AN ARMY set

Lieutenant begins a'new

came, too women. He failed in his exami. A his military up labourers, schoolteachers in need nation.

career in the alone.

for steel of a holiday, with all expenses

UE on about 2006 a year. In But before the cour paid from their door step and lawyers argued that pecondillocs general and get about 23,756. his 30 years he may.. rise to be a and patriotam do not mix, and Now Lieutenant Glenn Davis, that, if they did, at least 50 per one of America's famous young cent of America's male citizens athletes, is thinking must be "de-Americanised,

uver in offer of more than £14,000 a The courts agreed and even year to become praised: Schmidt for his "im- baseball player,

professions) necessary frankness."

In his chief's absence Andrew gave routing or ders right and left, pre- Aumptuously but efficient- ly, to clear a blocked line.

company

Soon he was superinten dent of the division, earn ing £370; in a few years, at 27, his income was rec- ikoned in thousands.

How was it done? By getting in on the ground floor of a new sleeping car

Entirely without teclinical company, investing in oil, skill, he put his faith in trusty running railways for the servants, for at fudging men he War Department in the was a genius. Civil War, building--

The rest of the money story backs. can be summarised in the words

men

It was the duty of wealthy of his blographer, Burton J.

lendrick: "He found an America nen, Carnegie had laid down in of wood and iron and turned it his "Gospel of Wealth," a book into steel."

that stirred the world, to set an example of modest, unostenta tious ilving, provide moderately for dependants, and administer

bridges, making railway SALES by

lines, iron mills, locomo

evangelism

MAKING A TIP. from / tips HEWING GUM is now to are the tag men, Washing all the rest as a trust, to produce have a purpose in life. Next ton figures show waiters col the most beneficial results for month they will start selling it lected £150 million last year. the community."

with bacteria-killing ingredients, So the Inland Revenuo are re- Though he was not living with which dentists claim will reduce examining their returns,

tooth decay. tives, Pullman cars...

noticeable austerity, Carnegle

Robert SHOW BUSINESS: went into his males talk. But the rest of the self-appointed white people are supreme but only on records. Sol Hurok, grind. Here was no nine- Nothing but the best. Our trust.

will win a small Mistisaippl who brought over the Sadler' o'clock every morning bridges don't fall,

First came libraries2,011 af £17,000,000, legacy.

University Jefferson College, a Wells Ballet, calls it "the big- gest dancing sensation in 43 them, costing £13,000,000. · He To quality for ollman George gave only the buildings; the Armstrong's bequent, the collega but

year,

* Clare Lauce is trying G.B.S.'s play, The Mil- had to provide the agreed to sack all teachers with lionairess, a

Cambridge, Communist leanings, or of Massachusetts."

THE

*Certainly not by hard fervour of the evangelist did not spare himself to carry UE PROMISE to teach that Mitchum is to turn signer,

It was true.-

man For six months of the year, once things were by 1900, after he had done a councils going well, he ran around, dont with Rockefeller (whose books and teep them going

LAST words

to

his wife

wis the 1914 War that shattered his paradise.

Ho had been to see the Kalser and had come back believing in Wilhelm's good intentions.

"Something telia me he will full his destiny and become the world's peacemaker,"

he said.

It was like Chamberlain's return

from Munich.

The impact of war seemed to shiver all that shining optimisin Now, 83 years old and very frail, he gently faded.

"I hope you will rest well. Andrew," said his wife, wishing him goodnight, one August evening in 1919.

"I hope so, Lou," he replied, turned his hend ou the pillow, and never woke up.

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