Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-08-14

the Lucy No. l and the Lucy No. 2.
after keyhood sweetheart in the
little Scotch town of his birth, and
after Miss Lucy Coleman, of Pitts
burg, whom his brother married.
Then came the erection of the Ed
gar Thompson Steel Works, which be-
came the wonder of the iron and steel
industry, with force of 5000 men
and an annual capacity of 100000
tons of steel.
]. Pierpont Morgan began negoti-
ations looking to the formation Of the
! United States Steel Corporation. Mr..
! Carnegie lay back and let matters
take their course. He was on the
market. but at his own price. He was
not going to haggle about it. They
could take his steel interests or leave
them.
Four hundred and sixty millions
was the basis upon which Mr.. Car
magic took first mortgage bonds and
retired from the business of steel ma
king to the equally congenial occu-
patton of philanthropy.
His $40,O00,000 celebration of his
retirement from business included
$10,O00,00 for national university
at Washington, D. c., $10,O0O,0O0 to
Scotch universities, 100000 to in
situations of learning in Pittsburg
$4,000,0OO as pension fund for Car
negie Steel Company employees
1,000,0O0 for Libraries for Braddock,
Homestead and Duquesne, the towns
in which he made most of his steel
fortune; $1,000,000 for public librar-
les in St. Louis and $2,0o0,000 for
Carnegie libraries elsewhere ~
Pittsburg, the city in which his
fortune was made, has received more
than $50 100000. He gave New York
his residence city, $5,200,000 for a
public library and branches. He die
great deal for his native town ir
Scotland, including the "Dunfermline
Endowment, of $2,500,000.
Mr.. Carnegie, when young mar
promised his mother that he woulC
not marry while she lived. Mother
Carnegie died in 1885, The following
year he married Miss Louise Whit
field, the daughter of a well-to-dt
New York importer, whom he hat
konwn since her girlhood. Their wed
ding was so simple that there was nj
bridesmaid or best man and only 81
witnesses. Mrs. Carnegie has nevel
cared for society outside of an init
mate circle of friends. She has al
independent fortune and carries oil
J her own charities and philanthropies
/ which are as secret as those of he
husband were open. Mrs. Carnegi
was born in New York in 1860, AM
outside of her New York home, a
/ Fifth avenue and Ninety-frst street
: she preferred to live at Skibo Castl
: in Scotland.
| The heiress to the millions whic
Z Mr. Carnegie has not given away wa
: born in this city on March 30, 1891
and was christened Margaret. Fo
i her Mr.. Carnegie bought the highes
: block of ground on Fifth avenue, be
: tween Ninetieth and Ninety-frs
5 streets and built S2,000,000 mansion
r Half of the block was given over
: private park, which has been he
S playground The title has Away
d been in the daughters name, and M
] and Mrs. Carnegie were simply he
tenants. A paYt of her education ha
n been in the joy Of giving, and sh
: is confirmed philanthropist.
: Mr.. Carnegie's colossal gift mai
ing ceased in 1915. His benefactior
h total $35O,625 900.
d The depreciation of the Carnegi
i fortune was jocularly confessed b
S Charles NJ Schwab April last The
S Miss Margaret Carnegie became til
bride of Ensign Roswell Miller of til
n U. S. Navy.
/ Askew what Mr.. Carnegie's wee
! ding gift to his daughter might
= Mr.. Schawb responded:
i "A sunny disposition, smile ar
h hearty kiss"
/ Although in his book, Wealth ar
e its Uses" Mr. Carnegie wrote, ''Tf
/ epitaph to which every rich ma
e should wish himself justly entitled
that seen upon the monument {
/ Pitt: He lived without ostentatio
s and he died poor" he has alway
It been fastidious about his dwellin