The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28
ANDREW CARNEGIE.
How l Made My First $1,000.

Choose at random almost any
self made American millionaire,
get if you can his real life story,
and in studying it you will find
that the hardest part of the work
of building great fortune is the
laying of the foundation, the
first $1,000.
Andrew Carnegie, for instance,
spent perhaps the best years of
his life accumulating his first
$1,000, years of hard, constant
work. He began saving pennies
at the age of twelve, but not un-
til he was thirty did he stand
forth owing no man and owning
$1,000.
On the twenty-ffth of Novem-
Der last Mr.. Carnegie celebrated
his sixtyfirst birthday by max
ing himself a present of 81, 900,
600 plot of ground, two blocks
long, on Fifth Avenue Here he
intends to spend another 81, 900,
600 building u 'plain, roomy,
comfortable home, to represent
ed to his daughter two years
hence.
Since that proud day thirty
one years ago when he deposited
the thousandth dollar, the cor
ner-stone of his present 1926, 900,
600 fortune, lin the bank at Pitts
burg, Mr.. Carnegie has become
the largest manufacturer and ex-
porter of steel products, and one
of the largest employers in this
country.
The steel and coke companies
of which he is the head, and, as
such, the controller of S60,000,
900 capital, include seven distinct
plants within seven miles of Pitts
burg, and 10000 acres of coal
lands in the Connellsville district.
He employs $1,000 men in the
steel works, in mines and in trans
portation. His monthly payroll
exceeds 81, 125, 900, or nearly $50,
900 for each working day.
Orator and essayist, he is be-
sides, the author of three books
of noticeable success. Vexed if
called philanthropist, he has
given Pittsburg d $1,000,000 Ii
brary, and has promised to spend
S4,000,000 more in the city in
which he has made his fortune.
For libraries in other Pennsyl-
vania towns he has given another
81, 100000, and to Scotland, his
native land, half a million.
Everything comes to him who
works while he waits" is one of
Mr.. Carnegie's notices. Wait
ing, but working meanwhile,
he began laying up his first 81, 900
while making Sl,20 week as
"bobbin- boy" in a cotton mill in
Allegheny City. His father,
mother, younger brother and
himself, the family,-had just
come from Scotland, and had
hardly got their two-room house
'to rights when candy"
brought in his first contribution
to the family earnings. But the
lad of twelve was doing grown
mans work, finding his way to
the mill and beginning on his bob
bin while ii was still dark outside,
every morning except Sunday,
and working until alter dark
every evening, with only forty
minutes interval at noon.
Seven steps above this, eight
steps in all, he had to climb be-
fore he finally putthat thousandth
dollar in bank.
The second step was made in
his thirteenth year. He became
dummy engine tender in a bob
bin factory, also in Allegheny
City. But his work there was
even harder than in the cotton
mill for he was put to firing the
b )iler in the cellar, as well as to
tending the little engine which
ran the machinery.
The full responsibility OF keep
ing the water at the right tenn
rorqture, and of running that