Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-08-11

iron had been $1,5O0 of borrowed mon
ey, SO years before.
THE secret and method of my sue;
cess is simple" he said. 81 organized
my business into departments put
the best man could find at the head
of each>department held him respon-
sibie and judged him by results.
have started more than fifty men on
Carnegie's mother, to whom he re-
peatedly gave credit for all that he
was, lived to be an octogenarian. and
so devoted was he to her that he hes
married. assd % louise louise Whitefield. eaS, o Of New
York, by whom he had one child. a
daughter. Margaret. born in 1897. His
bride was 20 years his Junior. To her
her and her daughter probably remain
a large fortune notwithstanding Car
negie's public gifts.
AS an American citizen he establish
ed a magnificent home in New York,
on Fifth Avenue at 90th street. and at
the same time negotiated the purchase
of the celebrated Skibo Castle in Scot
land. This mammoth baronial struc-
ture the remodeled, bringing some steel
for the purpose from %tttsburg. The
estate, comprising many square miles
has excellent grouse moors, and fish
ing brooks. in which Carnegie delight
ed. a golf links which he established,
and pier of which he kept his yacht
Seabreeze One way or another ne had
crossed the ocean some hundred times.
and once took tour afOund the world.
On his Skibo Castle flag staff he flew
both the Stars and Stripes and the I'm
ion Jack-sewed together.
Internationally, Carnegie made ready
use of his PEN, His interview with
the newspaper men invariably wound I'd
would like nothing better than to be a
reporter" He wrote a little for the
press in the days of Horace Greeley.
and later owned a paper for time.
first being a testimony to his love of
Icoaching-"An American Four-in-
tHand in Great Britain" Hsssl. The
next year he wrote "Around the
cy"--a review of SO years of the repub-
lie. Upon his retirement from business
in 1901, he wrote "The Gospel of
Wealth" and followed 1t with "The
an engineer in the factory cellar, wrote
~The Life of James Watts" the inven-
tor of the steam engine. His most re-
cent work was problems of Today"
The attacks upon Carnegie We're at
one time numerous. He was often ac-
what he had so aonspicuously preached
in theory, regarding labor. He saw
the development of workmen's unions
and sometimes was forced to concede
have always maintained a relatively
higher wage in his mills than any 9TH
.er manufacturer.
His theory on this subject and others
is reflected at random in numerous
bits of epigramatic phraseoiogy culled
from his interviews, speeches, and
writings.
"The instinct which led the slave
.heldar to l1eep.his slaves in ignorance
was a true one. Educated man. and
his shackles fall" he said.
Labor, capital and business ability
are the three legs eft "a three-legged
steel; neither is first neither is second
neither is third; there is no precedence
all being equally necessary. He who
would sow discord among the three is
an enemy 'to ALL" ss,
1.-THE day Is coming, and already we
soc it dawn, in which the man VINO dies
possessed ,of millions of available
wealth which was free and I'm his
disgraced.''
And along the same line he said:
Among the saddest of all spoctaclcs
to me is that of an elderly man ouuu-
pying his last years grasping Tor issire
dollars"
Pertaining to success: immense
rowor is aconired by assuring yoursei
in your secret revnries that you were
born to control affairs #
or the over working tendency iri
America. 81 hope Americans win some
day find more time for play. like their
wiser brethren on the other side"
On temperance: The first and most
seductive peril, and the destroyer. o
most young men. is the drinking of IL
uuor." (Mr. Carnegie himself was n
total abstainer, and gave his employees
at Skibo Castle a ten per cent advance
on their wages every year they report
ed that they had not touched liquoD.
His terse comment on such subjects
and others without end; property as
spur to success; mother love: business
good reading; home max
ing, and peace he had scattered thru
his books, even more widely than his
There are two Carnegie gifts which
will generally be, forgotten since they
were never accepted. 1t was reported
hat his anti-imperialism prompted
him to offer $25. 100000 to the Unite"
states government IL II would turn
,ver the PHILIPPINES to the natives for
,elfl government. Later when the |
,uestion of What shall we do with |
,ur ex-Presidents?" was widely dis.
.ussed, Carnegfe's imagination solved |
he problem. He offered to support
hem ON a, $4,000 pension overyS year |
10 long as they lived, and do the same
or their widows so long as they rel
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