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CARNEGIE'S HOUSES.
Ills First One and His Great New
York Palace.

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York Palace.
The house in which Andrew Carnegie
was born was itself very humble
structure. His father was fairly we'll
to-do master weaver In the historic lit
tie town of Dunfermline, Scotland, and
lived in a plain little house one and
half stories high, rude and lowly. The
unadorned windows were small, and re-
sembled the openings in an old-fashion-
ed fort. In such place Andy" as the
family always called him, lived as a
boy until his father was deprived Of the
profit of his labor by the advance OF
progress and the invention Of new ma
chinery for weaving. At such time,
when Andrew Carnegie was only ten
years old, the family decided to come
to America.
Since leaving their first home In
Pennsylvania, the one that was mort
gagged to raise money enough to give
the steel king his start in life, the Car
negies have lived in houses of varying
degree, always the best they could do
under the circumstances. Andrew Car
negie, like all true, proud-hearted
Scots, has always been great home
lover, and has made his houses as COM
Portable and cozy as it was possible for
him to do.
In later years, since he has been
rich man, he has had fine estates. His
sister owns beautiful and princely es-
tate, Dungeness, on Cumberland Island,
off the Georgia coast, with many
sweeping acres covered with verdant
lawns and the dense foliage of tropical
shrubbery. She has recently petitioned
>lnfa IN hn
property in order to clear away any
claims that may hereafter arise con-
cerning the conveyance Of this historic
spot. This is mere formal step to have
the records clear for the property is al
ready hers. and she has been residing
there many years.
The interior Of the Carnegie residence
at S West Fifty-frst Street, New York,
where Andrew Carnegie lives when he
Is "at home" is study. In his private
Office or library or. as he puts 1t, his
"workshop," there are rare pieces of
art paintings of Scottish landscapes,
American scenery, photographs of iron
mills, factories and shops, newspaper
cartoons, books of fiction, history,
science, all mixed in wondrous though
pleasing confusion, One finds z mas
q
laughable cartoon rudely snatched from
a newspaper. illustrating some passing
political turn in American history
there is no closer student Of American
politics in this country than Mr.. Carne-
gle, and the cartoon artist never fails
to interest him. Whenever he finds a
cartoon with clever point to it he Is
apt to tear it out and hang it on the
p.o1 OF, nd uh q 4
oftentimes for a good long time.
Frescoed in artistic lettering across
the sides OF the walls in Mr. Carnegie's
workshop" are texts, or notices,
which have been the keynotes in his
conspicuously than the rest, is the fol-
lowing:
This above all: To thine own self
be true,
And it must follow, as the night
the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any
man"
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Opposite this is another text which H.
lustrates most fittingly the thrift, in
dustry, and ndomitable perseverance
Of the dminutive giant of the business
world. 1t is this:
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"The present moment is our ain,
The next we never see."
Such are Mr.. Carnegies conceptions
of the meaning of the word home, and
in such spirit he seems to make the
environments about him part Of him.
self