The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-18
CARNEGIE ILLNESS PAST CRISIS AND HEALTH IN SIGHT His Removal to Bar HarbOr Showed Intimate Relations With Charles M. Schwab NATURALIZATION OF
 EQUITABLE LIFE Government Will Probably Wait for Harvester Decision Before Talk
 ing Action in the Steel
 Corporation Case
By HOLLAND

New York. June 17.-(Special. )--Many persons have asked, especially since the resignation of Colonel Bryan, why noth- ing is heard from Andrew Carnegie. It was. >of course, known that for the first time in many years he would not spend the summer at his home in Scotland But in the United States so many and so ex- citing one the questions which have arisen recently, in some of which MT. Car negie was known to be greatly interested that 1t has seemed strange that he has maintained silence.
 MT Carnegie has been very carefully watched over and guarded since he be- came i'll in mid spring. Grippe in one of It's violent forms got possession of him and only that his reserve strength was excellent and his physical conditions as good as could be expected for a man of
 his years the chances were that the Illness might prove mortal. He was very sick for awhile, but it was deemed ex pedient that there should be no publica-
 ton of the fact When the crisis in the disease was passed, the supplemental diff
 1culties which always follow grippe ap- peared. He became physically very weak, and Tor that reason probably was able
 to take little or no interest in anything
 Sat was going on in the world of affairs
 in which until his Illness he was as
 greatly interested as any American.
 MT. Carnegie's friends say that as an
 economist and a philosopher carefully observing the current of events. he gave
 last fall and in the early winter great
 deal of thought to the change in our in-
 ternational trade and to the effect this
 change would have upon the United
 States. But it was deemed advisa ble-
 very likely it was a part of the medical
 treatment-that newspapehs should not be put Into his hands or read to him. There
 was a time when ever had they been req they might have stirred no more than a momentary interest.
 When 1t was apparent that the graver
 phases of the illness had been mastered it seemed advisable that he be taken to some place where he could be invigorated
 by the air and where the surroundings would be such as to make it possible to maintain perfectly restful condition foi him. All of these considerations led tc the selection of Bar Harbor. The purpose was to take him to the coast of Maine as easily and as comfortably as possible and when Charles M. Schwab heard o1 this plan he immediately offered his pri. vate car. He went further than this l causing it to be especially prepared fol MT Carnegie's comfort. In this circum stance are again revealed the close ant sympathetic relations which now fol l many years have been established betweer MT. Schwab and MT. Carnegie The trit was made with medical attendance anc
 trained nurses, and the wisdom of the SC. lection of Bar Harbor has already beer
 made apparent. The improvement of Mr Carnegie is now reported to be good and steady so that there is excellent reason for the hope that his summer sojourn al Bar Harbor will make it possible for hin to regain health. It is the first serious illness Mir Carnegie has ever had
 The Naturalization of the Equitable The purchase by Col. T. Coleman dl Pont of a majority of the capital stock ol the Equitable Life Assurance compan, has been from time to time although very vaguely, intimated as possibility. This undoubtedly was in view of the very bril- liant financing conceived and worked out by Colonel du Pont when he had ir
 mind the building of the greatest office
 building in the United States upon the
 location where for many years stood tho old Equitable building. The business com munfty and the financial district stil speak with admiration of the manner in