The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-14


coke region, and which was organized
and is managed by Mr.. Frick; Charles S.
Smith. president Of the New York Cham
Der of Commerce; Professor Andrew D.
White, president of Cornell university:
Z. H. Lindsay, Mr.. Carnegie's private
secretary; Miss Whitfield, Mrs. Carnegie's
sister; Mrs. Alexander King, of New
York. and Miss Anna Walton Brown. Of
New York.
Mr.. Carnegie is man rather under
than over the middle height. OF closely
knit, well-proportioned frame. He has
snow-white hair, beard and whiskers,
the latter closely cropped; keen,
clear blue eyes, and generally
well-forrned features. His manner and
speech are quick. showing rapidiry of
thought and promptness of decision and
action. He combines those qualities of
both the Scotchman and the American
which go TO make the most successful
business men of the world. This is his
own description OF himself:
age, 50 years; height. feet "a inches;
weight, loo pounds; describes himself being
pony built hair gray, beard and mustachs
almost white; hands and feet unusually small;
prides himself upon them: wears No. shoe
and No. glove; ewes blue; has Scotch face;
speaks with Scotch elaboration; nose small and
rather thick; mouth determined; jaws square;
forehead broad; face pleasant: head round;
wears a No hat.
His story of his life is told with charac-
teristic brevity by himself in these words:
Scotch by birth; American every other way
Born in the village OF DumfermIine ffty-six
years ago. Schooling amounted to nothing.
Parents poor Both worked as weayess. Came
TO America when but - years old. Settled in
Pittsburg. Errsnd boy on Pennsylvania rail-
road. Picked up telegraphy; in three years be-
came assistant telegrapher. Perseve-ed. Be-
came chief operator when 1S-began 70 save
money. Joined now with my brother Tom and
bought small iron foundry. Began manufac-
ture of smelling furnaces. Called them Lucy
No. and Lucy No. .. Success enormous Ex-
tended business or all sides.
Became q millionaire by introducing steel
rails in country. Ia two years monopoly of the
business. Got contracts Tor equipping all the
large American systems with steel rails. Ran
the price OF rails from 500 down to IS ton 10
beat competitors. IN latter part Of seventies
made money at the rate of two millions a wear
| Now worth between s30.o00,0Jo and s35O11,el1
| Besides American manufactures own syndicate
| Of papers published in small English towns
Ambition ten years ago TO build and own re-
| production OF old baronigl castle in Pennsyl-
vanis- Bought the lands; had plans drawn; on
death OF mother abandoned the idea. Promised
| her when boy never TO marry while she lived
| Kept premise. Married two years after her
| death Vile twenty years younger; is an Amer
| lean lady.
| Mrs. Carnegie is woman much his
| junior, but evidently devoted to him. She
has that type of beauty which shows a
| cultivated mind moulding it.
| The party has now been travelling for
I
| New Orleans, then through Texas to the
| City of Mexico, thence to Vera Cruz. The
/ return trip was then made TO FL Paso.
/ Tex, and the next run was to San Fran
/ cisco. From that city a number of the
| great sights of California were visited. in
| Guiding Coronado Beach, Pasadena. Los
! Angeles and the Hotel del Monte. Their
| journey through California was like an
/ old-time royal progress" They were
/ banqueted three times during their four
! days stay. At every stopping place they
! were received by the gentlemen of the
! neishborhood and taken to see the beau
ties o. the country, and regally enter
tanned. Mr.. Smith was particularly i'm
| pressed with the beauty OF Del Monte
| park, saying that he thought it the most
| beautiful in the world
MI. Na4ASSAe sdld th2l. though there
were many men on the Coast ofexception-
| ally large wealth. the field was still a
| good one for men OF energy and pluck.
| But" he said, ii is not the man who
| does the work who makes the money. lis
| the man who gets other men TO do il. "
| He thinks little Of men who have inner
| ited wealth and college education. and
| thinks shorthand and telecraphv OF more
| Use than all the scientific COURSES in exist
! ence. He believes in letting every man
make all the money he honestly can. but
| believes IN spending II and letting future
| generations make their own money. He
says he will spend all his money before he
dies.
| In religion he is an agnostic and an adj
| mirer OF Herbert Spencer. He is q great
| lover OF music, though he has no knowl-
| edge of 1t. and has spent 81. 900 go on
musical institutions.
He has tried to get rid of much of his
wealth by spending it on the erection of
| libraries, art galleries and museums. He
! has given 10000 for the Pittsburr
| library, 100000 for the Pittsburs art gal.
lery and museum, S3N0,00 for the Ale
| gheny City library, Sloo COO for the library
at Braddock, $4,000 for the Johnstown
| library, S240.0on for the Edinburgh public
, library and still larger sums for libraries al
Dunlermline, his birthplace, AYR and other
! Scotch towns.
He always gives his Scotch fellow coun-
| trymen the preference. All his household
servants are Scotch, so are many Of the
| principal employe. 81 his several indus.