Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-11

NsZZqNAS~S land and France has
not only attracted
much attention, but has demonstrated
once more that the great steel maker is
no trivial dabbler I'm matters Of inter-
national pohty 1t has also established
another fuct-that there is little likeli-
hood that the name OF this premier
captain of industry will disappear
from public view as long as It's owner is
able to WELD the pen.
The man who bears the name, more
over. has no cause of complaint that 1t
has received scant publicity 1t is
doubtful whether any other not even
excepting those OF the most famous
rulers, statesmen and fighting men Of
recent times, has been so conspicuously
brought to the front and kept there so
continuously. If there Is suspicion
cxtant that Mr., Carnegie has not been
dispeased with the efforts Of English
.peakng Journalists 10 do him Justice
A. does not IN any way detraCt from his
real greatness or bclittle the marvellous
fabric which his Scottish sagacity has
reared in the land OF his adoption.
Andrew Carnegie, born in poverty In
Dunfermline in 1887 was eleven years
of age when the family came to Amen-
ca, and It was so necessary for him to
become self supporting at once that he
was glad to be a bobbn boy In a Pitts.
burg factofy at a salary OF 20 cents a
day. Fifty-two years later, at the age
of slxty-three, when no retired from
further active money getting, he had
accumulated $3.50, 2j0 600. lie had gath
cred this almost incredible sum at the
Yste Of over $SOOOOOO year. but It was
. good many years before the million
dollar income began
According to published statement of
Henry c. Frick whose close association
with Mr. Carnegie IN his various steel
enterprises gave him am excellent OPP
portunity for observation, the little
Scotch Americans income when the
great steel trust was formed was more
than S24O00000 a year. II that esti-
mate Of his income We're correct, it
means that his total wealth, based on
the customary per cent basis, aggre
gated more than $500, 100000 There Is
40 reason to believe, IN spite OF Mr
Carnegle's expressed dsapproval Of the
man who dies rich, that he is worth
less than that at the present time.
While he was getting together this
vast amount of treasure Mr.. Carnegie
was one Of the most active individual
forces In the development OF several in.
dustries which were just beginning
when he stepped upon the stage lie did
not remain long in the cotton mill bul
left It TO become a mes cngcr boy In
the Ohio Telegraph company al Pitts
burg lie was one Of the first telegraph
operators TO learn to read messages by
sound, anl he became so expert at this
new art tuat he was soon able 60 Obtain
good wages lie went into the employ
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad company
and showed so much ability That he wa.
promoted to the superintendent Of III,
Pittsburg division,
This new position gave him an op.
portunity to take a survey OF the field
He became acquainted with severa
men who We're about to launch various
inventive and industrial projects
among them Woodruff the originator
of the sleeping car. lie put his savings
into the company organized to builC
sleeping cars and In that way gained
the nucleus Of his fortune. The oil eX'
element followed with all It's feverisl