Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-01-16
CARNEGlE'S ADVICE.
The Ironmaster Discusses Wealth
At the Y. M. c. A. Meeting.
4 COMPETENCE ONLY IS DESIRABLE.
Anything beyond That Il Not Desirable
He Predicts In the Future That Rail-
road Trains will Run Hundrsd
Miles III Hour.

new loTk, Jan. lo.-lne twenty
sixth anniversary of the railroad
branch of the Young Mems Christian
association was celebrated in this
city last night. Andrew Carnegie was
the principal speaker. Edward V.
l'osster, first vice president Of the
New York Central & Hudson River
railroad and chairman of the board
Of management Of the railroad
Dranch, presided.
The reports made by Chairman
l'ossiter and Secretary Warburton
showed the work to be in most
prosperous condition. There arc no
local railroad branches of the Y. M.
{. A. in the United States and Can
ada, with membership Of more than
$1,000 and an annual expenditure OF
more than 100000, Of which sum the
railroad corporations contribute
about so per cent. The report gives
some space to the relations between
the railroad companies and the asso-
citation and says they are most
friendly.
Mr.. Carnegie and DR.. G. c. Lorimor
made addresses. Mr.. Carnegie re-
ferred to his experience in the rail-
road service as u telegraph operator
and later as superintendent of the
Pittsburg division of the Pennsyl-
yania railroad. In discussing wealth
and Its uses he employed these ex-
pressions:
1.-THE best of wealth is not what II
does for the owner, but what it
enables him to do for others. And
let me tell you there is nothing in
money beyond having u competence,
nothing but the satisfaction of being
able to help others. 1t is one Of the
most cheering facts of our days that
under present conditions the wages
OF labor tend to rise and the price Of
necessaries OF life to fall. There was
never nation SO splendidly situated
as ours at this moment in regard
to labor. Every sober and capable
and willing man finds employment at
wages which, with thrift and a good
wife to manage, will enable him to
20 far toward laying up a competence
for old age. There is nothing that
success and happiness of a working
man so much depends upon as good
managing wife.
"Ard here let one who has, almost
without intention or desire, had him
self loaded with somewhat more than
n competence, tell you soberly that
what one has beyond this brings lit
tie with 1t, and sometimes nothing
desirable with it. What all of you
should strive for is competence,
without which Junus has said no
man can be happy. No man should
be happy without it, If it be within
reach, and | urge all of you to save
a part of your earnings these prosper
GUS days and put II in savings banks
at interest, or better still, buy q
home with it.
ut took me some time to learn, but |
did learn, that the supremely great |
such as you have these
days, never do any work to speak Of
themselves; their point is to make
others work while they think. APP
piled this lesson in after life to that |
work and did the laughing, and I
to your superintendent the
thought that there is very little sue
ress where there is little laughter.
The, workman who reioices in his
work ana laughs away ITS dlscom-
forts Is the man sure to rise"
Mr. Carnegie predicted that in the
near future railroad trains will run
100 miles an hour, The speaker COM
mended the care some railroads are
giving their employees and lauded the
pension system and the reading and
club rooms which some roads are es-
tablishing. lie said these benefited
as well as workmen and
added; at is great delusion to say |
that capital and labor are foes; they |
must be allies or neither succeeds"
THE DOW NINE ACCIDENT.