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road divIsIon SUPERINTENDENT.

was railroad religion in those days that
only the superintendent himself could
clear up wreck. Young Carnegie dis
esnted.
Sitting at the telegraph wire he d.
( gested the reports of freights waiting
on every siding and the through express
from the East hours late. He sent out
the orders that put the trains in motion.
The express he held until the freights
had been cleared, getting acknowledge
ment from the express conductor that
he knew the other slower trains were
running ION his time" He signed the
messages with Scott's name. Carnegie
thus describes the superintendent's re-
ception of his work:
when Mr.. Scott reached the office
he was In q great stew. He had heard
about the accident and all the trains
being late. and as he sat down to his
desk he said:
I "Here II is 10 o'clock and the ex-
press not in, all the freight trains hung
up. and the devil to pay. Wire -
Here interposed with Excuse me,
Mr.. Scott, but have sent all OF the tele-
graphic orders that ! thought you would
send. Here are copies of my kilograms
and I think that you will ind the
, through freight already in the yards
| Mr.. Scott looked at me very keeniy
4 tOT u minute, Out ne never bhlu u WOTu
He looked over the kilograms had sent
in his name, ard stiii said nothing. In
fact, he never said a word to me about
the matter. A few days afterward J.
Edgar Thomson. the president Of the
road, came into our office and, laying
down his hand on my shoulder. asked,
rs this Andyr
/, Ives. SIR said I.
! "well. have been hearing about
you.' said he"
It was shortly after this that he got
his own division on the railroad. But
he was constantly on the alert and the
profits from his sleeping car investments
were shrewdly turned into oil lands near
OIL City. Pa. This was long before the
day Of the great development In oil. and
young Carnegie was looked upon by
many Of his fellows as foolish.
So when the civil war came Il found
Carnegie well up In the management Of
an important railroad and owning per-
sonal property that marked him as a
substantial citizen. He was but 26 years
old-but he had been at It for fifteen
years
He was made superintendent OF milf
tary railroads and Government telegraph
lines in the East during the war and at
Its close cut loose from railroading and
went into business strictly for himself.
thO iOuBcE IOdneu ulb utLlo snare OF
capital to others. He proceeded to Dor
/ row capital for himself
Up to this time all railroad bridges
had been built of wood. Carnegie saw
that they must be built Of iron. So he
went into Pittsburg and organized the
Keystone Bridge Works. His share Of
the capital was $3.50.
Il had not the money" he confesses,
but the bank lent It to me. This COM
htttlf he
the Ohio River. This was my beginning
In manufacturing and from that start ali
other works have grown. the profits of
the one works building the other"
/ From then on the career OF Carnegie is
the familiar career Of the great captain
of industry-save that Carnegie was
perhaps the most successful Of them all
with a spirit and dash about his exploits,
a drive and vigor and hardness to his
work that many Of the others lao0ed.
He was frank. surprising, humorous
with II all. He thought for himself and
no expressed his thoughts without the
| slightest hesitation or constraint In fact
bis frankness earned him many enemies
He was violent opponent of some of
the most sacred doctrines Of the Repub-
lican party. to which he gave always his
formal allegiance. Yet he said things
about a protective tariff-albeit he had
that made Republican leaders SILVER. A
story has made the rounds only recently
that he went to Mckinley in 1900 and
offered to pay personally the price the
United States had paid Spain for the
Philippines. provided the President would
commission him to go to Manila and
proclaim that the Filippinos were free
TO so their own way.
He was the familiar OF many Of the
greatest men Of his time, not only here
hut abroad. His FIRST large profit In fact
| was a quarter million dollar commits
sion for the sale OF Pennsylvania Rail-
road bonds in Europe. Even in these
early days. before he became famous.
| he was on terms of friendly intimacy
with Gladstone. Roseberry. Matthew Ar
mold. Herbert Spencer, John Morley and
James Bryce
Throughout his life he was an omniv-
orous reader. He digested.a dozen daily
papers, read regularly the principal
weeklies and trade reviews and was ia
miliar with anything in the monthly
ma gazines that interested him-and his
interest was well nigh universal How
early his own literary spirit manifested
itself Is shown by the list Of his books.
They begin with IAN American Four In
Hand in Great Britain" written In 1888,
ana continue with Round the World
| CSs4), Triumphant Democracy"
| (1sSs), '.The Gospel Of Wealth" $4,000.
'-The Empire of Business C1so2). this
was translated into eight languages) |;
THE Life Of James Watt (1soe), and
| Problems Of To-day" 1so9.
| Always Democratic.
Yet despite his distinguished acQuaint-
anceship, his vast affairs and his aspir-
ing mind he was above all a democrat.
He did not own a private car until within
the last few years He was In Atlantic
| City when he was summoned to New
York in 1901 to close the great deal for
the United States Steel Corporation. A
private car was sent for him. With
single companion he sat there for few
minutes IN solemn grandeur and then re-
marked:
doesn't this bore you-you and mo
all alone? Let's go into the day smoker
there are people in there
And in they went
He was devoted TO organ music He
gave hundreds OF organs to institutions
and churches. He also was a regular
attendant at the opers when in New
York, but never subscribed to a seat in
the golden horseshoe" He and Mrs.
Carnegie, latterly with their daughter.
sat in orchestra seats which they bought
as chance afforded. And despite this he
was devoted to the noises OF the Scottish
pipes, It was Scottish pipes that fur
nished the music at his daughters we'd
ding In the lovely palace at Fifth ave-
nue. and Ninetieth street, which has been
his town home His devotion to Scot
land was only less great than his devo-
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