The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15
ANDREW CAR.
NECIE DD
Steel Magnate Create.
IN Y, WOrld-Has Beer S' Gift q
Physicians Since Start IT. " !

al Wofio-Has Been 1 1l't 6, i
4 Physicians Since Start IT. y!
1 Lenox, Mass. A,,r g
Carnegie, the worlSs n~Aa. +
anthropist, is dead. T SSseatea
baron, whose benefoalliae aged
more than $500 O00 G0e mn tas
to bronchial pneumonia N,nfs' >. sqccqqe
mer home here this a at bis :
statement ssnt issued by Attending qS9ias
ter Z o'clock this noo rea Short,
| Carnegie, early in bIi ;i
conviction that it was '1 &C. his s.
rich" He sought tbronadt sin 70
less gifts to avoid this 1s gin MS Is COD
ed Sin" His income V psl'deSas
however, that it is beli SSs 50 "a
able to make but little ir0 be n
On his wealth. 'pfeSlM n
War Terrific ShOek
Carnegie had been ;Us
for several years. Durin rrta p
part of the war, which csr NE al
terrific shock to him and CSll n1 as
ms IDEAS, he began to fail 'HsEe
and thereafter appeared Tarr i slg
in public. He was undo, . aIr sed@
slant care of physicians 1 anG ! %
time to time it was reported u ~ las
was totally incapacitated i-' so 'na'
At the time of his daughter,
riage recently to Ensign Ro os1r 1 D.
Ter, U. S. NJ, it was reported iI Ha.
aged philanthropist was ass so saI I.
better. He attended the c osrssaa
but was very feeble. Since n.
time he had been able to mnv now = ~
with numerous attendants, P.' a"e
it was given out that he eDiovs1
successful fishing trip, but # Tss !
planned that his attenders we ra' r !
him constantly, batting his linz s y
assisting him in every wav. h. =. !
his enfeebled condition, Carnepis y
taken practically no part IN nn Ii.
afa1s Of any kind since 1915, '-
Seriously Ill Since FRIDAY
Mrs. Carnegie and John Povrtor :,
private secretary, We're at the badT5.
when the end came. Carnegie IA
been seriously iii only since last r.
day. His condition became crif,
late yesterday, it is understood. Fn
eral arrangements have not vet bsa
announced but it is believed the Mir
will be sent to Pittsburgh for burial
Andrew Carnegie was born 4
Dunformline, Fifeshire, Scotland, yr
%, 1885. He came with his famj5
to the United States in 1912, settin
in Pittsburgh. He was lord rector 4
St. Andrews University from 1903 to
1907, from which he received the DE-
gree Of LID. in 1905. He was loa
rector of Aberdeen University from
1912 to 1914. He received the degree
from Allegheny county, Pennsylyana
in 1913.
Started as Weaver's Assistant
Mr.. Carnegie married Louise Whit
field of New York City in 1887.
His first work in America was that
Of a weaver's assistant in cotton
factory in Allegheny, Pa, after which
n 1851 he became telegraph messeH-
ger boy for the Ohio Telegraph com
oany at Pittsburgh. He Learned
Biography and entered the emplqI
If the Pennsylvania Railroad CON-
oany as an operator, advancing bl
to the manager Of the
Pittsburgh division Of that system
He joined T. 7. Woodruff, inventor
# the sleeping car, in organizing the
Woodruff Sleeping Car COMPANY,
gaining through this the nucleus q,
us fortune. Careful investments o.
mall earnings in oil lands lncreaSa
jarnegie's means. g.
During the Civil war ne SerVea %
superintendent of military railways
nd government telegraph lines IN 'nS
asst.
Starts in Steel Business
After the war Carnegie developer
ron works of various kinds anu o.
ablished at Pittsburgh the Keystone tone
fridge Works and the Union nos
Works. He introduced the BeSSens-
recess of making steel in this con,
~ in 1865. He was principe , U~n
+ a few years later Of the h S4lsI
sead and Edgar Thomson ''' >;
forks and other large plants &C., ..
cad of the firms Of Carnegie T nlaR
nd Company, and Carnegie DiVN'
rs and Company. .4,roets
Carnegie consolidated MS .I5. ln'J JoiIsr
1889 in the so-called billion !, u oor.
eel trust, the Carnegie steer steer wifi with
any. This in 1901 was m ngsl.t for
le United States Steel CorPolattyo,ff
The steel maker closed tins p@+s
S life by retiring from Ou Sams
ating from this retirement : Va I,aS
e began a chapter Of sp ,3}.a1 Jo.
G, globe trottiag and milI l;n Ii h,
r gift-giving which lasted I'LL
.ath.