Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-24
HOME OF CARNEGIE
Remarkable Rise of a Poor
Scotch Emigrant to America.
PARENTS WERE PENNILESS
Driven by Poverty From Old Home
to a New World.
NOT UNLIKE ALADDIN'S STORY
Left Scotland a Pauper to Return a
Prince and Bless His Old
Home and Friends.
PARENTS WERE PENNILESS
NOT UNLIKE ALADDIN'S STORY
BY WILLIAM L CIRTIS

| Special Correspondence Of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.
/ DUNFERMLINE. September is. 1908.
| Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunferm-
| line November 1881. The Auld Grey
| Toon'' is about twenty miles north of
| Edinburgh, across the greatest bridge in
| the world. that spans the Firth of Forth.
| For four hundred years it was the capital
| of Scotland King Malcolm III. called
| Canmore. whose father was murdered by
! Macbeth and who was placed upon the
throne by Macduff. made it his home and
built a great palace. a fortress and a
monastery here. Robert the Bruce lived
| here during his reign and is buried near
the altar of the old cathedral. Dunferm-
| line is the center of an extensive and
prosperous coal mining district and the
| headquarters of the linen trade.
The Carnegies Storage Passengers.
! William Carnegie, Margaret Morrison.
his wife. and Andrew and Thomas, their
sons, aged twelve and fourteen years, left
here May l.. 1913, and sailed on the Wis
| casset, an S0O-ton barkentine, from Glas-
| gov for America. They had berths in the
| steerage and were seven weeks on the
| voyage. Their expenses were paid from
| loan of 500 made them by Mrs. Hen
| dersOn. a relative at Dunfermline. and
| upon their arrival in New York they went
| direct to Pittsburg. where Mrs. Carnegie
had two sisters living.
| a few weeks after their arrival Andrew,
| then fourteen years of age, got job as
| bobbin boy in a wooden factory in Allie
| gheny. The next year 1SJO) he became
| messenger for the Western Union Tele-
graph Company and delivered kilograms
| about the city of Pittsburg. In 1852 he
| had become an operator and soon earned
| salary of $50 month In 1853 he went
| into the service of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company. In 1854 he made his first
| investment. and with his savings bought
| ten shares of the stock of the Adams Ex-
press Company. a few years later. with
| his brother Tom and Henry Phipps, he
| started small iron foundry.
James Douglas Reid, who was super
| intendent of the Pittsburg division of the
| Western Union Telegraph Company while
Andrew Carnegie was an operator in its
| service. who was also a native of Dun
| feminine took friendly interest in the
| welfare of his young fellow-townsman and
{ pushed him ahead as fast as possible.
| Mr. Carnegie showed his appreciation
| Of this kindness in a substantial manner
| many years after. Mr.. Reid was Ameri-
| can consul here during the latter years
| of his life and obtained the appointment
through Mr.. Carnegie's influence.
Andrew Carnegie's Scotch Home.
Mr. Carnegie does not live in Dunferm-
| line, however. Skibo Castle, his Scottish
home, where he spends his summers en-
tertaining the good and the great from all
the countries of the world is in the high
| lands hundred miles or more northward
near Dornock, in Sutherlandshire, and not