Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-03-11
MR.. CARNEGIE'S LATEST.
ne Proposes to Write "a Book on the
Prosperity of the United States.


Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, March There is a report
in publishing circles that Mr.. Andrew Car
negie is at present getting material to-
gether for volume which will be an ex-
position of the great prosperity of the
United States, and its prospects in the flu
ture for further prosperity. This he pro
poses to write next summer.
MrCarnege has lately taken an extensive
| trip through the south and southwest, and
wherever he has gone he has been diligent-
ly engaged in the taking of statistics, has
sought information from the great plant
ers the creators of the large manufactures
in the south, while at New Orleans he has
shown deep interest in the commerce de-
veloped by that port rs well rs the traffic
diverted to it by the new systems of rail
ways which have been developed in the
southwest since Mr.. Carnegie wrote his
first work
1t is some years since Mr.. Carnegie APP
pcared before the American public as an
| author. He had been known for a long
time as business man of extraordinary
energy, foresight and success. The story
of his career had intensified interest in the
man. That was IL tale as romantic almost
as the fables of the ARABIAN Nights"
Mr. Carnegie himself has often heard him
self likcned to vcritable Monte Crsto,
IA comparison which does not please him at
all, since he believes that whatever of sue
cess he has had has been due to his own
energy, thrift and to the magnificent OPP
portunities which the United States offers
to any young man of good habits, good
purposes and good health.
The book which Mr. Carnegie wrote he
has always felt was his best tribute to the
| n N tipsx bn oh Mt nd
offered to him. He came here forty years
ago IA poor Scotch lad without the slightest
idea that he was ever to do anything more
than to earn his own living. He attributes
his success to the chances which were
about him; but those who know Alr. Car
negie well are of opinion that he would
have won the battle of life wherever he
had been placed He, however. could not
have accumulated the cuiu> al fortune
which is his as swiftly as he has done had
he remained in the land of his BIRTH
1t was about ten years ago that Mr.. Car
ncgie, being nightly Impressed with the
resources of this couDry and the oppor-
tunity which awaited any man who took
| advantage of these resources. determined
to write book that he might show to the
world how intellectually rich this country
! is and how superb the development of
democracy as manifested by the United
States.
The work of authorship was with Mr..
| Carnegie II labor of enthusiasm, although
| it was most eXacting. He collected, re-
gardless of expense, statistics from every
J quarter, he spent great deal of money in
making personal Investigations; he had
! frequent consultations with General Fran
els A. Walker, who was the chief of the
census bureau both in 1870 and in 1850, and
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cons tho snIendor of ire rosources and the
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ences drawn from such statistics. has &C
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