The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-16
SWORD OF DAMoCLES
Hangs. Above Head Of Andrew Car
negie-His Fear of Death.

, New YORK journal.
Few men would accept Andrew Car
negie's horror of death with all his mil
Hons"
In these words James H. Bridge for
scribes what he asserts is one of the IA
nous millionaire's most trilking charac-
teristics in his declining years.
Mr.. Car iegie horror of death. SAYS
Mr.. Bridge, lis literally unspcaka3ie, for
he never allows n. mentioned by. any of
own circle. If others speak OF 1t he
quickly move out of earshot. Just be-
fore his mother died he called a friend
to his own sick bed and said: When
mother goes don't v ant TO be told about
it. You attend TO everything. And to
this day he does not know hov OF ,vnen
sne died, although he was. within dozen
ut was the Same few days before,
when his brother. Tom, died. To break
the news gently. I told him that Tom
was i'll with pneumonia. Then hell never
get over it, he replied and turned his
face to the wall There was no need
to tell him anything more ana he never
According to Mr.. Bridge, the aged
| Pittsburg millionaire is truly harrassed
| by the resp onsibility attending the prop
| er disposition of a fortune which Is in
second. $50 a minute, 1880 an hour. s4s,-
200 a day, 1902 400 week and Sl,@6OOo a
month.
His sole motive in life. according to
| MT bLlOSes ntAV appears 10 De Ino eA-
| altation of his name and postponement
/ Of the hour when death shall separate
him from the millions which accumulate
! faster than he can distribute them among
the charities that he affects.
But he may live good many years
yet" Mr., Bridge adds Although he is
| now nearly 20 years old-his mother used
| to give his birth year as 1895, not 1887.
as he himself does-his regular life and
| careful habits have. kept him young. and
| he is still full of yigor, The common be-
lief in the hygtenica effect of association
| with young people, especially with
Many other idiosyncraces of the steel
| king are revealed by Mr.. Bridge. who
was with him for many years. But per
| haps the most striking Of these Is his
| vanity.
Mr.. Carnegie's vanity" says Mr..
Bridge. lis his great weakness. 1t hes.
been carefully nurtured and cultivated
until 1t has grown into the most impr egg
| sive thing about him. The love of him
self, the fondness for his own name, the
| desire to see 1t in 5000 cities on imposing
| facades, and to think of it as thus con-
| spicuous throughout all succeeding ages
this is the underlying motive of the Car
negie generosity. Aud 1t is barely posi-
BILE that Carnegie himself would so ad-
init it. At any rate he never made gift
without provision for such public and
perpetual recognition of his benevolence."
Mr.. Bridge expresses the belief that
many of Mr.. Carnegie's views are direct
ly traceable to his small statue. In
height he Is only feet, Inches. This
slight physique, by debarring him from
rough sports of youth. has given a PEI
culiar twist 10 many of his ideals, He
breads pain and turns pale at the sight
of a drop of blood The manly attributes,
especially. glorifed by the Scotch race,
he holds in contempt. With him muscu-
lar strength is brutal. physical courage
relic of barbarism and masculine beauty
a sign of intellectual debility"