The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-07-02
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Carnegie is a war casualty, says dispatch. bereft of reason and money and Dr, Henry Pritchett. pre- sident of the Carnegie Foundation has been appointed conservator Of The vast Carnegie Funds
 This termination to great indus aYial career surely was never anti cipated. The man lived an abstemi- ous life enough, and was regarded as exceedingly sound mentally and bodily. How much of this was real and how much of this was feigning one could never tell about Carnegie.
 Henry Labouchere, the brilliant editor to his death of the London Truth, told a story of Carnegie much of Carnegie as of Labouchere The radical British politician visit ing at Skibo was ushered into the library. Labouchere recognized the binding of a well known London firm and the books almost all brand new. Carnegie rose to greet him, renarking as he did so You see me among my friends. Labouchere took down a book that was handy 0oting the newness of everything and the uncut pages, remarked with more wit than kindness "I am glad yOH have the good taste not to cut any of them.
 There was quite a good deal ot -riGning in Carnegie. He liked mo- ,oriety and he was never so much .-i nome as when he was hailed as ere typical democratic ironmaster ~ she millionaire of unadorued sim s,,icity.
 His ability .n the iron an& steel business, was the same ability that has made others famous in other lines. An unhesitating ability to make use of. by fair means or foul, The technical talents Of others, driy- sug d tight bargain always his phi ianthropy was three part humbus and one part genuine.
 He had hoped that his spread of the Libraries which bear his name throughout the country would live down. in the minds of the people, Inc Homestead strike when armed guards of the Pinkerjons massacred me striking unionists. To cor- 'Jatr extent that has been successful. II is seldom one here anything like the correct version Q. Shat eX- tTaordinary battle. Indeed every rue reads now that the unionmcn were destroying everything and that the Pinkertons were the saviors of the situation. In the course ot : 2.Ge. doubtless, the same thing wifi bc said about Muklow grove, and Ludios- and a dozen other places.
 The ,MsTld knows Carnegie as the ionator ol libraries, as the apostle of peace, as Vze Laird of Skibo, as fhe humanitarian who established the Carnegie Foundation. Profes- s7urs who owe to him a prospective E5d age pension will be relied upon SAe crown him with halo of good ness. ,>- ., (, More than likely, subjected to g' lot of adulation and reading q q. hole iot of stuff of the ki9.', Carnegie came to be- | iievG that he was really modern Messiah. His attitude to- wards th,7 soross indicated concep ton of !bs simple yet lofty super j0rity aAd uue old man began his 1ementia by craditt.ng the fact that he was in truth and. fact a super nan.
 Carnegie lett behind the stee. rade in condition when it was lard to make money. Just when he United States Steel Corporation lad bought him out and they fully experienced how hard was the bar gam he could drive, the Tennessee ( oual and Iron Co. had evolved a ( superior method of steel production ( oy the discarded open hearth fur { race which enabled it to do what ( -he bessemer mills had not been able to do, gurantee the ( of all steel rails upon , delivery. Every line of trade was ( then exploited to the uttermost in iteel. Structural, tool, railroad. II machine, castings of all kinds were S