The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-08-12
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Andrew Carnegie . who died ycStc' day at his summer home in Masaachu- sctts. began a race against time. whcT in 1901, at the age of sixty five years he resolved to give away his cnomou% fortune. A stated yesterday in dis hatch from Washington, Carnegie had given away%65, O95,G5& dollars, lc June first this year.
 To give his fortune away, which Carnegie had fairly well fulfilled wher death overlook him he had Sp"nt at the rate of over S5OOOO a day. Nn f- brarics alone he spent upwards Of S5&- O0OOOO. Hc gave them to some 1000 dirfcrnn, English speaking communi- tics throughout the world, One of his libraries is in the Fiji Islands.
 Andrew Carnegie come to Amc'i"a from Scotland with his narcntS in lN- IS and located in Pittsbwg where tNH father and Andrew found work in {" cotton factory, the son as bobbin boz his salary S1.5O a week, Andrew w"s soon promoted to engineers aSSiSta < gradually working to higher posi- ton Two years later however he mo e ccd from the engine cellar and be- came a telegraph messenger. later a telegraph operator.
 Andrew was l6 when his father died and he became at once the brcad-wiN- ncr of the family and a true capitalist. He had been told by his trusted en- blower that ten shares of Adams ET- press stock could he had for $500, and it was 8 good investment. Al family council that night Cmncgie'S mother decided she would mortagc her little home for $500. The stock was bought, and it brought monthly dividends Of one per cent.
 The next step toward independence and fortune came when T. T. Wood ruff, the inventor of the sleeping car, approached him with a model of the invention. "Hc had not spoken to me a minute" Carnegie has since recalled, ''bcforc. like a flash, the whole ranre of it's value burst upon me. 'Ncs', 1 said. that is something which this con tincnt must have
 Ho consulted a friend named Scot, and tho three invested for the manu- fracture Of the cars. Carnegie, then earning $50 monthly, had to borrow S2OO on his first inStallmcnt of capi- tai. hut later when he sold out his in- tcrcSt to the Pullman Company, ha had realized SlO,OOO for the venture.
 Carnegie was 26 when the Civil War broke out and he saw his old cm- ploycr and friend Scott elevated "a the post of Assistant Secretary oi War Carnegie, in turn, won an ap- poirtmcrt as director of government railways and tclcgraphs. To the car- nare he saw at several battles may b. traced his lifelong belief in the folly of warfares - "a blot upon Civiliza- tion."
 Unwittingly following the lead of man who was later to eclipse him in fortune building, Carnegie, at 30 years of age, invested in oil. AS one of q syndicate he bought up vast tract of oil land. In a year, to the surprise of all investors, it paid the astonishing return of Sl,OOO,OOO in cash dividends upon a capital of S4000O.
 But iron was the magnet then a,- tracting Carnegie. The railroads were experimenting with cast iron bridges. Carnegie forcsaw the demand for a factory that could turn out iron parts, and he formed the Keystone Bridge Works. They built, as their first greas piece. a bridge over the Ohio river. with a span of 300 feet. Demand for similar structures became general, and the Keystone works got the big orders and profits.
 Carnegie then began to see that iron rails must be given up for steel, on a visit to England in 1868, he dis