The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-03
Andrew Carnegie
How He Rose From a Poor
Boy to the Steel King.
The New York World gays:

I
The New York World says:
THE present moment is our aim;
the next We never see
He that dare not reason is a slave; he
that cannot is a fool; he that will not
is q blsot."
Tness notices a5orn the corniees Of the
library in Andrew Carnegie's house, NO.
; West Fifty-first street. They are ex-
amples Of hundreds Of sayings of his own
which he has ready for all occasions. He
guides his business By these old and
tried maxims.
From a poor boy Andrew Carnegie
worked his way to where ne stands, the
! Industrial king Of two centuries
How ne did it IS a more wonderful
story than Imagination could evolve He
had M elp. and has never asked for
it. All his life he has dominated others.
T. Piei pont Morgan has genius for f.
nance. and with other mems millions
can make more for them and some for
himself.
Andrew Carnegie is worth $3.50 100000 in
spite of princely gifts to nearly one hun
dred cities in the United States and Great
Britain.
He started without a dollar
He was twelve years old when he came
to America with his parents and his
brother Thomas from DunfermHne. Scot
land now place made beautiful by his
money.
William Carnegie, his father, was a
weaver He came to America to better
his condition. The family landed in New
York City in 1854 an settled in Pittsburg.
/ Andrew began work Immediately as a
/ bohbin hoy in a linen factory. His first
weeks wages were s120, and when -
took the money home to his mother he
! felt that the future was Scare His
father was employed in the same factory.
Andrew had a natural liking for I'd
cIn,ory, and was put in charge Of a stu.
tionary engine in the place. At fourteen
he became a messenger boy for the At
lantic and Ohio Telegraph company, of
Pittsburg.
It was Carnegie's best move. Nothing
he has done since compares with his
/ change of occupation at fourteen years
of age.
Describing this change in career, Mr..
Carnegie wrote after long and sue
cessful years:
MY entrance into the telegraph Office
was a transition from darkness to light
from firing a small engine in dirty eel
lar to a clean office where there were
books and papers. That was paradise to
me, and bless my stars that sent me to
be a messenger in Pittsburg telegraph
office"
James Reid, the supernte CLIENT Of the
his age; in fact. he has never attained a
stature above FIVE feet and four inches.
Sometimes, to crafty him a friend viii
put on an extra half inch, but that is
1attery.
Mr.. Reid said that the boy had not
been with him a month before he asked
to be taught to telegraph. He spent all
his spare time in practice, sending and
receiving by. sound and not by tape He
was the third operator in the United
States to read the Morse signals by
sound.
When Andrew was fourteen years old
his father died. and the boy was the
breadwinner for his mother and younger
brother. He took up the duty with a
smile, determined few years later that
he would not marry as long as his moth
er lived. and kept his self-imposed word
She died in 1885, his brother Thomas a few
months afterward. Mr.. Carnegie married
in 1889, when he was ffty-four years Old
At fifteen Andrew was an expert tele-
graph operator. And so it happened that
when the Pennsylvania Railroad com
Dany needed an operator he was chosen
for the place He soon mastered the de-
20 ;1- +rs{r, ,7og,,o 4otof,,or His o,or.lraT
ability led to his transfer TO the head
quarters Of the company. and 500 natter
ward he became superintendent Of the
western division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. He was then twenty-four years 4
old
There he became the friend Of Thomas
A. Scott. who was superintendent of the
Pittsburg division when Carnegie enter /
ed the service Of the company. Scott Be
came assistant secretary of war. and he
asked Andrew Carnegie to take charge Of
the military railroads and telegraphs Of (
the government. The young man accept +
ed but war did not appeal to him and
he returned to his railroad duties.
Carnegie and Scott became firm friends, /
however and the two men projected +
commercial enterprise which proved the
foundation Of the Carnegie millions. That
was the Investment in oil fields. Pre-
vious to t2,st. however Carnegie. on F
SCOTS advice made the first Investment +
Of his life He bought ten shares Of stock .
i'm che Adams Express company. valued .
al 500 1t proved good move. although .
he made It with great trepidation. IT .
represented hard earned money.
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sleeping ear inventor. and saw the enor- +
nous advantages in such car He nor f
only invested bur interested others IN the +
invention.
wih Scott Carnegie bought several +
farms in upper Pennsylvania on which .
on was discovered. The value u the Oh
sold from these farms for the twenty
five years following their purchase In 1851
was sl0oo0000. In one year land bought
for Smoa increased in value 50 that it
paid dividend or S1oe0 90.
Al thirty wears of sge Mr. Carnesie
began his wonderful career as an iron-
master With the help Of money he had
saved and some borrowed from bank.
he started the keystone Bridge Works. Il
was tire when steel was prince. as
ne said lately. Before long he had ace
quires t}e Edgar Thompson Steel Works
tho Homestead Iron Works and The Tn
ION Works
Bv ISIS 3Ir Carnegie owned seven dis
.jnct iroo and steel works snd had coa-
trolling interests in several coke works
Since then he has acquired mines. rai,-
raads ana steamboats, and can START TX
tire ore and ,urn out the nrished product
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