The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-11
CARNEGIE GIVES
VAUDEVILLE sk|T
Sets Dignified Steel lnvesti-
I'm eating Committee IN an
Uproar
TELLS OF THE DOG
LOSING THE RABBIT
Also Affects sympathy tor
Himself for Selling Out
for a Paltry $780,
100000

BY HOMER DAVENPORT.

Carnegie before the Stanley commit
tee was as rare bit Of vaudeville as
YOU see ON any OF the better circnats'
Carnegie has been spoiled, though ne
don't answer the bell as you ina8lns
he should. He has got into the pao
habit of answering questions IN mss
peculiar way For Instance, When
Mr.. Stanley would address him with
a question, Mr. Carnegie would object
and say: Just wait minute TIL
fnish my story" Turning then TO the
official stenographer, he would say.
where was l att" On finding niHseii
he would proceed.
To begin with, he IL as crafty as
a crawflsh. He never backs into a
corner that does not have many ex-
lite that ne can hike to on short no.
tice. These exits are mainly lack OF
memory. due. ] presume, from. ~ ne
limited, to a sunstrcke that he SUI
tered n q boy the FIRST day he really
made any money.
No Questions With III"
Another loophole that he used ire
q,,ently wis that just on the heels.
sor q few days thereafter. OF a. GER
tain transaction involving a few
hundred thousand dollars another
one took place within another TWEEN
-
IiG1lAs 30 that, quite naturally, man
I ha*tpG sandwich Tor breAkfast and
the - dinner Chamherls4n.s Of the
old days used to shove out u the
ev0ning must be exeu6aa TT Forget
tiiK thS sandwich. n Atapt take
more than ten minutes M Mr.. Car
nsxfe ID h<er-hreak IT, tonnmit-
tee, He said, for instances. syshs you
must not A. me questions NTH an
r. In Il. " tho dog hadn't st0rnsd
he would have Taught the rabbit.
When Mr.. CarnsGte looked On there
wa6 not = raabit In night.
~ Smmittss IA SKht NJ ~ cvals
y IN; & q s 81 o1(
was leaaiig buck Yelling with laugh
ter.
Mr. CArnegie's nose was not made
for glasseA At intervals when large
sums Of money were mentioned that
had not certain circumstances hap
pened would have been larger sums
OF money for Mr. Carnegie. his
glasses would slide or the end OF
his nose. Each time Mr.. Carnegie
would catch than with some move
ments OF his hands, suggesting ca
pahte centre fefaer.-----
I16 WIN lSAuluA SHo cSAuhAitSCu a
merry chase in the early part OF the
hearing. having oil sorts of fun. He
had worked himself into q perspira-
| ton where the glasses would not stay
| on his nose at all.
When Mr.. Stanley referred to six
teen millions Of dollars for some
| slight fraction Of the Oliver hold
| ings In a certain mine this sum
having been paid to Oliver by tho
steel trust. instantly the perspirtns
| face turned to daathly pallor: q
most serious fearful look came OH
| Mr.. Carnesie's face. 1t was plain
| tive. almost pathetic. His chin Quiv.
| cred like q child about to cry.
| oh" ne said, with q voice full OF
| emotion. that must be = mistake.
l have never heard 1t before. only
| got four hundred and some odd mil
| lions for my share from tho steel
trust. and II that was the case. why
| then" and amid an uproar OF
| laughter, that crowned everything.
| Mr.. Carnegie gave the impression that
| he had been stung.
BANKS Bad. Railroads Worse.
Carnegie, who came to Washing
! ton against his will to testify before
| the Stanley cous<nittee today. told
I the committee that the banks OF the
| country were bad and the railroads
worse. and announced that no wal
| very glad he left the details Of tbs
steel business in his young partners
when the Sherman act was being VITO.
lated. With many chuckles. no pat.
| ted himself on the back for getting
| ahead Of John D. Rockefeller IN ar
| ore deal. and insisted on relating
| personal anecdotes about himself, hi.
| partners and his fellow millionaire.
| every time .ha was asked q question
i.xbont something elise 60
| When Mr.. Carnegie's testimony wa,
concluded for the day the committee
did not know one thing more about
the actual value Of the steel trust,
| plans than 1t did before the iror
master was summoned.
crepancy OF $4,000, 900 exists be-
tween the price that Carnegie wa.
paid for his properties by Morgan
and the figure at which they were
a.st.sa sss1ssaS tsxs sstrSa sssssEssaSatsas
| was organized This $50 100000 ap
pears to have been Morgan's broker
age. Mr.. Carnegie did not know
anything about II.
] Eyades. Questioners. ..-...
Not only Chairman Stanley. bu
every Democratic member OF tn.
committee. took = hand In the Tn
quiaition. All any or them got ou
| OF the diminutive Croesus was tina
ne was paid $4,000. 600 for hts
holdings In the steel business, ant
] that much TO his mental agony h.
found out little while afterwart
that he could have Just as we'll go
another one hundred millions.
Here are a few Of his more i'm
portant assertions In his own Ian
guaEe:
what fool was to sell out T.
the Steel Corporation for $4,000.
GEO."
j II left the details Of pooling agree
ments and such things to my subor'
! dinates at the time you speak o.
(when the Sherman antitrust Law
1 was sbeing freely vtolated). and an
very glad that did 70"
II was never 1t the head OF thu
Carnegie companies Z was never I
director. left everything, 70 N,
Houng pAetpexls