The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-27
NEW CARNEGIE ANECDOTES.
CHANCE REMARK THAT MADE
A. q. PEACOCK RICH.


'Pm From Dunfermline." He Said and Was
started On the Road to F0rtune-Re.
ward Of . Man with . Useful Idea
Mr.. CarRegic's Love Of Coaching.
Here are some anecdotes Of Andrew Car
negie which are pronounced new and are
vouched for by several of his old business
associates.
Mr. Carnegie once made millionaire OF
a man, who, all unconscious Of the fact that
his visitor was born In the same town, hap
pened to say, u am from Dunfermline
The story goes back to the time when Mr..
Carnegies fiancde was purchasing her
trousseau. After she had been shopping for
several days the clerk who had been waiting
on her told her in sudden burst Of conf
dence that she, too, was soon to he married.
But III not have such nice things" she
added, AZ she fingered the delicate fabrics
laid out before the customer.
The clerks confession struck sSmps-
thetic note in Mr. Canegie's flanote, She in
turn told who was to be her husband and
when, and then asked:
"And will you tell me whom You are going
to marry?"
Mr. Peacock" was the reply Hes
the floor manager here; and when We are
married. m not going to be here any more.
few weeks later Mr.. and Mrs. Carnegie
went abroad on their wedding trip and were
gone several months, When they returned
Mrs. Carnegie went to the store where she
had bought her trousseau to do some shop
ping. and all unexpectedly she ran across
the clerk who had helped her to select her
wedding finery,
"Why," she exclaimed, "how IL ii that you
are still here? thought you were not
going to stay after your marriage. Didn't
you tell me you were to be married few
weeks after my wedding?'
"Yes,' was the reply, "but Mr.. Peacock
became ill shortly after our wedding and We
taken my old position again and will keep
it till he is able to get back to work
That evening, when she went home Mrs
Carnegie told her husband the story Of the
clerk and ended by asking him to cah with
her at the Peacock home.
few days later, when the Carnegies
made the call, they found Mr.. Peacock in
bed, and while the two ladies' chatted to-
gether in an adjoining room Mr.. Carnegie
seated himself by the bedside. He had
been there a short time when he asked;
"Mr. Peacock, from your pronunciation
I'd say you are from Scotland. Are you?"
Yes" was the reply, Il was born in
| Dunfermline."
"You don't say SOL" exclaimed Mr.. Car.
negie, Why, that was my birthplace
also
| That settled it. Before he left the house
Mr.. Carnegie had made it plain to his fellow
| townsman that he was to be associated with
him In future. A. g. Peacock did as he wa:
told and to-day he i; one of the millionaires
of the steel industr :, and leading citizen OF
Pittsburg.
| When electricity was first being put tt
commercial uses. the Carnegie Steel Com
pany invested in electric travelling cranes
to the extent of a quarter Of a million dollars
After the cranes had been delivered and paic
for the discovery was made that they
wouldn't work.
As a result the men who had talked Mr.
Carnegie into giving his approval TO the pur
chase of the cranes sat up nights trying II
find way to make them travel. and Incl
dentally wondering what would happen t.
them il they did not discover the way.
While these lieutenants were thus occu
pied chemist in the Edgar Thomson
works who had recently come over from
Germany spent his spare time in making
a set of plans for some sort of mechanical
construction. When he had finished hi
rolled up his work. placed it under hi
arm, went to Mr.. Carnegie's Pittsburl
office and sought admission. In the cours
Of time he got to his employer,
"Mr. Carnegie" he said, after he hal
introduced himself, II can make Inc electri
cranes 60
Mr.. Carnegie looked at his visitor il
astonishment.
lously. "Do you know that the best cleo
trical experts in America can't make then
go?'
II do" was the reply, "but can max
them go, just the same.
Then tell me how said Mr.. Carnegie
impressed by his employees earnestness.
With that the chemist who hadn't ha
credit for knowing anything outside of hi
own department, unroled his blueprin
plans and started to explain his scheme
Before he had got fairly well started it wa
evident to Mr.. Carnegie that the Germa
had hit upon the one idea that would max
the cranes go.
He turned to his desk, and while tn
man at his elbow kept up his struggle wit
the English language he wrote out thi
order;
Mr.. - is TO have any material and an
men that he deems proper at his dispose
until further notice.
Take that" he said, as he handed tn
paper to the German and broke of TIL
interview, land il you make the cranes &
shall be much pleased
A month later the chemist again obtaine
udience with Mr.. Carnegie,
They are all working" he said,
To-day the man is living in German,
where he lie running vineyard. He bough
it with part Of the quarter of million dollar
the cost Of the cranes-that Mr.. Carnegi
allotted him OF the stock of the Carnegi
Steel Company.
Mr.. Carnegie rides with much enthusiasm
two other hobbies besides that Of donatin
El...,;n, Tboao ara htp1 trips m