Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-04
SELECTS HIS EPlTAPH
Makes a speech-says "Here Lies
Man Who Knew How to Use Clever
err Men Than Himself"

1 SkOSSU-0dyo
Man Who Knew How to Use Clever
| err Men Than Himself"
New York Correspondence
| Andrew Carnegie made two speeches
last evening, let the public know thu
epitaph to be put on his own tomb
stone and incidentally gave away
$65,0O0 building. And it was not a
very busy evening for him either. 1t
was in the course of his second speech
that he introduced the epitaph.
| II think he said, Il will have put
upon my tombstone this inscription:
/: Here lies man who knew how ::
!: to get around him great many ::
Z: who were much cleverer than he ::
{: was himself. !:
1t was at the formal presentation by
Mr.. Carnegie to the Stevens Institute
of the beautiful new building just COM
! pleted at cost of $4,000 and to be
used as a laboratory of engineering.
| The exercises were held in what is
called the computation room, large
square sky-lighted apartment at the
top of the building. Mr.. and Mrs.
Carnegie, who had dined with Prof.
Morton, reached the building few
minutes after, 8 o'clock. The alumni,
who had had a meeting and got thru
with it long ago, were anxiously wait
| ing for the exercices to begin. With
Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie came Mr.. and
Mrs Richard Stevens, Mrs. Lewis. Mrs.
Alexander and Miss Garnet, all rep
resentatives of the Stevens family.
| The actual ceremonies of the presen-
tation We're simple in form, but We're
made interesting by the enthusiasm
with which Mr.. Carnegie entered into
them, and the animation and spirit
which characterized his speeches. w.
| S. Alderman of the firm of Alderman
& Ross, the architects who built the
building, opened the proceedings by
formally presenting the keys to Mr.
Carnegie.
Mr. Carnegie" he said, II have the
honor to report to you that this build
ing is completed. The contractors have
been paid in full I might add that
there is no unexpended balance"
Il congratulate you on the building
said Mr.. Carnegie in reply. art is
founded on utilitarianism and in adj
dition to the admirable way in which
the building is adapted to purposes for
which it is intended, I could not help
observing as saw the building for the
first time this evening, that it has ar
tistic merits, as it seemed to me, of a
high order.
Unusually, when I have burst out
of my cage to perform, my keeper has
presented me with time table telling
me just when / was to begin to roar
and what the other performers were
to do. But on this occasion l am
without any such schedule; but some
how l have always liked these spon-
taneous, i1npromptu affairs like the
present. [Laughterl You will judge
of my confusion by my evident en-
barrassment. [Laughter] and will
pardon any slip l may make; any
words may use out of place.
Il wish to say this to you: that my
trifiing gift is not a thing of chance.
1t was not passing whim. 1t was
result Of conscientious thought and
result of my experience of what stu
dents in this country are doing
I'VE We're the first firm. l believe
person, TO employ a chemist in con-
to be made in Germany, at that We
paid him the enormous sum of $1,000
a year. l remember that when was
getting my s35 per month used to
wonder how ever a man would know
what to do with s125 per month. At
ter / got it found out
n,,x.
chemist. They could not afford to have
a specialized German about their place,
they said. Now, all Germans do not
wear spectacles. But that is neither
here nor there. We got rich revenge
with our chemist. For one thing there
was the matter of ore. Ore was classi-
fled by name. If you have got good
name you can do almost anything and
nobody will suspect you. Young men,
bear that in mind. If you are in the
hat business, for instance, and your hat
has got good name you can charge
dollar for the hat and a dollar for the
name.
ut was the same way with ore. We
were paying high price for an ore be-
cause it had a good name. But we set
our chemist to work to analyze that
ore. Analyze the ore! 1t sounded
strange in those days. But he ana
lyzed it and he found that it had great
~ deteriorated from what 1t once was
that it had partly run out. Instead
of SIS per cent of iron he found that 1t
had only 45 per cent We had an ore
which did not have a name, but which
Gid have great deal more iron in 1t,
than the ore with a name.
Well gentlemen, those days are long
East. Our laboratories and technical
schools have given this country a class
of young men the like of which is
matched by no other country in the
world. In England at banquet of iron
manufacturers which I attended long
ago there We're speeches. There should
be speeches at a banquet. A banquet
without speeches is, well-a feed. But
at this banquet an English gentleman
spoke about the American iron indus
tries and he said: 1t is not your ma
chinery. nor is it your splendid variety
OF ores which gives you the advantage;
ii is because you have in America a
class of trained young men for which
we have no corresponding class in En-
gland
Mr.. Architect. again congratulate
you on the building, l remember that
our architect came to me once and
asked me to present him one of those
large photographs of myself which