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their own way. and there's to be a
Christmas tree. over which Mrs.
George Barnett viii preside, designed
to appeal especially to the kiddies.
Mrs. Charles Helmbold will be the
presiding genius Of the gypsy camp,
where treasures from all over the
world will be on sale and where one
may have ones palm read, ones fu-
ture foretoid or peer into the mys-
tcries of the occult A bambino sale.
conducted by Miss Nora Page: an ex-
hibition OF marionettes, q group Of
street singers under the direction OF
Mrs. William Burr Harrison. Italian
folk dancing. and mu0c by opera
singers of note will contribute to the
distinctive atmosphere of the fete.
And. In adition. there win be a sale
of useful and beautiful things and a
tea dance, to corking music, In the
late afternoon.
Fondly yuors.
JEAN ELIOT.
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Riding and Hunt
Club Program.

The Riding and Hunt Club will
have the first OF series of musical
rides on Tuesday evening at $50
o'clock and will follow 1T up with an
informal supper and dance at which
Frank s. Hight, second vice presi-
dent of the club, and Mrs. Hight will
be hosts. Details for future rides are
to be announced later, but / can tell
you now that the series is along the
lines of the allied rides" arranged
especially for the foreign officers sta
TONED in Washington, which have
been a feature of the club season for
the last two or three years. This
time, however, drillmaster has been
imported from New York, and an ef-
fort will be made to put on some
really thrilling and spectacular exhi-
billions.
On Saturday morning. starting at
$3.50 o'clock. the clubhouse is turned
over to the kiddies, the children of
members, of course. for races and
g-ymkhana games. and they have a
perfectly wonderful time. Among
the children who are most regular in
their attendance-and take prizes
with almost equal regularity-are
Evelyn Walker, Elizabeth Mohun
Lola Roosevelt, Ellen Thoron, Lillian
Sanger. Helen Marye, Sophie Snyder,
Mona Lynch. Isabel Hart and the lit
tie Cootes boy.
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Frederick McKenney. makes her debut
tomorrow. and on Friday night the
McKenneys are giving a dance at
Rauscher's in her honor. On Tues
day Mr.. and Mrs. II. Rozier Dulany
are giving a reception to present their
daughter, Anne Dulany, and their
niece, Mary Custis Lee; on Wednes-
day there will also be two debutan-
tes. Frances Hampson, daughter of
Mrs. Joseph Hampson, and Helen NC
Lanahan, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George X. McLanahan; and on Thurs
day Col. Charles H. Heyfs pretty
daughter, Delphine Heyl, will have
her coming out party.
Mrs., Marshall, wife Of the Vice
President, will have her first at-home
this week, receiving on Wednesday
afternoon more or less informally
She feels that returning calls made
upon her is one Of the social duties
of woman in her position and makes
valiant effort to see that none are
neglected. Indeed, she took time by
the forelock and devoted last Wed
nesday to making "wednesday calls
in order that she might feel free to
observe her day at home on Wednes-
day from now on through the season.
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IMAM Tie
Takes Liberties
With U. 8. History.
Drinkwater has taken a few liber-
ties with history, in the interest of
dramatic effect-the most curious be-
ing the interjecting of an extra Cabi-
net member into the cast. But he
has succeeded remarkably in eatch-
ing the spirit of LincoIn-the wist-
fully humorous man of sorrows-anu
he has made such a compelling drama
that no one should quarrel with aim
for having skillfully rearranged the
events in Lincoln's life to suit the
exigencies of the stage.
That first night Uncle Joe Cannon
occupied one of the boxes, having with
him Congressman and Mrs. James X.
Mann, of Illinois. and Miss Flora Will
son, daughter of a former Secretary
of Agriculture. Joseph Tumulty, the
Presidents secretary, and Mrs. Tum-
ulty occupied an adjoining box with
some friends, and across the way
John Drinkwater entertained a party
until he realized that his yis-a-vis
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JEAN ELIOT WRITES
OF CAPITAL SOCIETY
News of the Diplomats and the
Seasons Coming Social
Events.

{ Continued from Page Thirteen.)
and a most interesting audience. The
Illinois delegation was given particu-
lar prominence as representing LIN
coins home State, "Uncle Joe" Cam
non being the bright particular star.
so far as the audience was concerned.
1t was not a stag party-not by q
long shot-but naturally the men "a
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Italian Fete
For Destitute Babies,

Italian Fete
For Destitute Babies.
Ferhaps the most picturesque event
Oh the week. however. is the ItaIian
fete to be given on Thursday after
noon and evening in the ballroom Of
24oo Sixteenth street for the benefit of
destitute Italian children Mrs.
harry Lee Rust, chairman of the COM
mlttee, is assisted by some of the
most prominent and progressive wom-
en- In town, and they are arranging
program which will be full OF sur
prises and delights from the hour of
opening, 230 o'clock, to 1890 o'clock,
when the supper dance will be the
order of the evening.
During the early hours of the after
noon the children will have things
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House of Mercy
Tea On Saturday.

Excepting Saturday, which, appar-
emily, is being reserved for the House
Of Mercy tea, every day this week
will be marked by one or more fes-
tivities for the deputantes. Virginia
Mckenney, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
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THE WASHINGTON TINES SUNDAY DECEMBER {, 1919

OF the church, not forgetting their
irlenos of other denominations, are
an keen about this part OF the enter
tainment
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was the famous "Uncle Joe" Cannon,
oldest member of the House of Rep
resentatives, and for eight years
Speaker-when. speakers were speak
ers-and one of the few remaining
public men who actually knew Lin
coin personally. Then he asked to be
presented to him-and his box party
was rather left to its own devices.
While one was carried away an inn
preston of pretty nearly the whole
of Congress" as being there i cont
seem to remember individuals. SEN
ator and Mrs. Pomerene were there,
and Senator and Mrs. Ashurst.
and the Smoots, and Senator and Mrs
Keyes, and Senator and Mrs. France,
and the Hitchcocks. and the Suther-
lands, and the Kelloggs, and the
News, and Congressman and Mrs.
Fess, and the Fairchlds, and the
Towners-and dozens more.
Mrs. Mccormick
Also In Audience.
Oh yes. and 1 noticed Mrs. Medill
Mccormick. though Senator McCor-
mick was not with her. She had a
woman with her, who looked like
Lady Willert, though l wouldn't I
swear to that. as | only saw them
from across the house. I had seen
Mrs. Mccormick only the night be-
fore at the same theater. enjoying
that first class "thriller"-"At 9:45 -
she and Mrs. Ira Copley, apparently
chaperoning a party of girls.
She's very variable woman-Mrs.
Mccormick, but to me always attrac-
tive. l had last seen her at her
Thanksgiving tea-which was pri-
marily an "old home" party for Illinois
folk in Washington. She had the
women of the Illinois delegation-as
many of them as were in town-re-
ceiving with her: and she had asked
all the Illinois girls she knew OF who
were here as department clerks or
war workers, or in any other capa-
city. She had even looked up all the
girls from Illinois who were here at
boarding schools and invited them to
her tea any they were abjectly CRATE
full to her, poor youngsters:
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Many Benefits
Planned for Week.

Many Benc0tS
Planned for Week.
The week now opening also has a
whole grist of more or less interest
ing benefits. beginning with the tag
day tomorrow for the Christ Child
Society and including the donation
day and tea for the benefit of the
House of Mercy on Saturday. Tea
will be served at the House of Mercy
after o'clock, with the officers of
the organization and the members
of the board, all prominent women,
as hostesses; and donations of
money, canned goods, groceries, veg
etables, etc, may be sent to the
home Of the organization, klingle
road and Rosemont avenue, or to 1882
Connecticut avenue. between o a. m.
and p. m. Checks should be made
payable to Mrs Frank Anderson,
treasurer. 1928 Nineteenth street, and
IL is hoped that the response, to this
appeal will be generous. for the work
done by the organization is of incal-
culable value to the community.
Christ Child
SOciety's Tag Day.
One of the major objects of the
Christ Child Society, which will can
tion with its tag day and drive, is
to provide Christmas cheer for poor
children. All the workers volunteer
their services and at Christmas time
each member is expected to crafty
the desires of at least one child eT-
pressed in his or her "1etter to Sc Ia
Claus" Shoes, clothing and o,her
necessities are provided by the
Christmas work committee, which
also sees to the distribution OF gifts,
but the pleasure of providing play
things to gladden. the child heart is
left to the individuals who are men,
bers of the organization.
Most of the money raised by the
tag day will be used to defray the
expense of providing larger quarters
for the Christ Child summer home
one of the most important of the or
ganization's activities-where deli
cate children are kept for two-week
periods during the summer. The so
cial service undertaken by the Christ
Child Society also includes settlement
work in various centers in the poorer
sections of the city and the mainte-
nance of health and dental clinics.
which have been of immense benefit
to the children of the community,
Every case OF poverty relieved bv
the society is personally investigated,
by member of the visiting commit
tee. who keeps in touch with the moor
OF the community. During the win
ter boys and girls, regardless of
creed or color, are outfitted with
warm clothing, and to avoid the high
prices the purchase of these is made
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The bazaar to be given tomorrow
afternoon and evening at the Willard
under the auspices of the Women's
Alliance of All Souls Church, Will
wind up with ball in the evening,
which bids fair to be particularly en-
joyable. Mrs Frederick A. Delano,
Mrs. Robert Woodward, Mrs. Charles
J. Bell, and Mrs. U. G. b. Pierce have
taken boxes in which they will enter
tain parties Of soldiers from Walter
Reed Hospital: and the girls and boys
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direct from the factories. In the
centers kindergarten and sewing
classes are conducted as we'll as
libraries.
The officers of the society tnciuoe
Miss Mary Merrick, president; Mrs.
Henry Simpson, first vice president;
Mrs. Thomas II. Carter, second vice
president; Mrs. Thornton P. Boland.
treasurer: Mrs. Charles +. Neill, cor
responding and recording secretary,
and Miss Cover, assistant secretary
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Clip year Liberty Doo1 coupO0s -
exeAsage then fer ". .. q. thesUov
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such an audience were more inter-
esting than the women.
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worth, on a stock basis, the sum Of
$1,000. 600
There were SO many delays on.
railroads In those days from burned
or broken wooden BRIDGES that / felt
the day Of wooden br'dr must
end soon, Just a tie dag os wood
burning locomotives was ended.
Cast iron bridges. thought. ought
to replace them, so l Organized a
company, prime iranv from "a road
men ! knew, t. make tae~e iron
bridges. and We called IT ~the Key
stone Badge WORKS TIE Develop
ment of this new company required
my time. so ! r-s gned from the
railroad service in ls57. bad risen
from telegraph operator 70 tc super
intendent Of the western division. 1
ID longer drew a salary; from hat
time on VS. nay own ma er.
II 1873 | returned to ENGLAND.
and there noticed that the railroads
were discarding iron rails and sub
stituting steel. The necessity for
this had long been Impressed on me
and on railroad men in general In
fac, the Pennss .vania Company had
at my suggestion spent S20o00 m a
process for hardening iron rails by
carbon, precisely the modern Har-
vey process, and very good rails they
were, too. But on my return from
England 7 built az Pittsburgh a
plant for the Bessemer process Of
steel making, which had not until
then been operated IT TINS country,
and started in TO make steel rails
for American railroads I Dough.
the Homestead works SOME tlme
later. and By 1883 owned, with nv
associates. seven steel works in and
about Pittsburgh, which constituted
the plant Of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany.
Concentration is my motto. First
honesty, then industry. then concen-
tration.
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my right to come in under the head
Of working boys, as 1 was now a
telegraph operator. That made me
indignant. So sat down and wrote
my first contribution to print in
letter to "The Pittsburgh Dispatch"
l insisted that any young man or boy
who worked, whether with his head
or his hands, was entitled to be
known by the honorable designation
of working boy" as | had signed
myself After that | had no trouble.
And l found that Colonel Anderson
permitted US to take his books home
with us. / saw how much good he
was doing, and I determined then
and there that if I were ever able to
do it l would provide free libraries
for people who worked. That has
been one of my hobbies that l have
carried out.
From Mr.. SCOTS private tele-
graph operator I became his pri-
vate secretary. / worked with him
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in dingy cellar or in a noisy fac
tory! The tick of the telegraph in
struments fascinated me. I tried to
understand it by listening, by going
to the office early and playing with
the key. Mr.. Reid finally agreed to
help ne to learn, and I was soon
able to receive any message by ear
alone, and at that time there were
possibly only two other people in
the country who could do this. I had
become an operator, but I was still
getting messengers pay.
One morning, when I was in the
office early, heard a death message
come over the wires from Philadel-
phia. | knew that sort of message
required prompt handling, so
wrote it out and delivered it at the
proper address. From that time the
operators began to use me to "sub"
for them. Then Mr. Reid made me
an operator, and l had a great rise
in the world, for now I got S25 a
month, $500 a year, and I felt that
our home rested secure on my in
come, for my father, who had been
naturalized as an American citizen
in 1853, had died soon afterward.
His naturalization while I was Z
minor made me an American citi-
zen. At the age of sixteen l was the
family mainstay.
About this time came my first in
dependent financial operation.
don't consider that salaried man,
no matter what his work or his
wages, is in business, for he works
for somebody else, not for himself.
There were six newspapers in Pitts
burgh, and so there had to be six
copies made Of the press dispatches
received in our office. The man who
had the job Of making these copies
got Sc week for it. When he Of
fered me dollar to do his work I
gladly agreed. l was working for
myself now on an independent con-
tract, doing something beyond my
task. That dollar a week I con-
sidered my own. 1t did not go to
the family support. 1t was my first
capital.
February 2, 1854, the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad was completed to
Pittsburgh. In the telegraph Office
we knew all about this long before
the road got on, and began to see
in our Office Thomas A. Scott, su-
perintendent Of that end of the road.
| became acquainted with him, be-
cause | was the operator through
whom he sent many of his messages.
He asked one of the young men in
his employ if he thought | would
like to leave the telegraph company
and come and work for him as his
private operator. The young man
said he didn't think so, but when this
same young man told me what had
occurred | asked him to 20 and tell
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Luck in Oil

When I heard Of the oil strike on
the Storey farm, on Oil Creek, re-
solved to invest in oil lands. | Wis
tied that famous well, from which
quantities of oil were running waste
into the creek. The capacity of the
we'll was several hundred barrels
day, but when my associates and
bought the farm for $4,000 we had
no confidence that this flow would
continue, and built a pond big enough
to hold 100000 barrels. We ran our
oil into this pond until We had run in
several hundred thousand barrels.
part Of which leaked and some Of
which evaporate,!. Yet this invest
nent Of $4,000 paid US in one year
Sl,ooo,ooO in cash and dividends, and
the farm itself eventually became
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ployer, which took him through the
Civil War He was in charge Of rail
way communication at the battle CT
Bull Run, and was the last official
to leave for Alexandra. His first
Investment was made. His second
followed shortly afterward.p
/ was examining the railroad track
one day after my return to the SER
vice of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, when a tall man with
green bag III his hand came up and
asked me if l was connected with
the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany. When | SAID yes. he drew out
a model of sleeping berth and
showed it to me- He did not need
to explain it at great length.
seemed to see its value at flash
Railroad cars IN which people could
sleep on long journeys course
there were no railroads across the
continent as yet-struck me as
being the very thing for this land
of magnificent distances. | told him
| would speak about his model TO
Mr.. Scott, and | did so enthusiasts
tically. He did not share my enthu-
siasm, but said | might bring the
inventor to see him. SO | intro
duced I. T. Woodruff, the inventor
# the sleeping car. And the result
was not only the building Of two
trial cars, which were run over the
Pennsylvania Railroad, but the for
nation OF sleeping car company,
IN which l was offered an interest.
promptly accepted, although
didn't quite know where my share
Of the capital was coming from.
But this, my third business venture.
found me confident in my ability to
overcome difficulties. l had secured
the money to buy the Adams FIX
press stock. | would get the money
20 Duy the sleeping car stock.
But how? At last l went to the
bank, and, telling the president the
exact facts, offered him nay note for
S217.50, my share of the first pay
ment on the stock, if he would adj
vance me the money and let me pay
him back out of my salary al the
rate of SIS month. To my delight
he patted NE on the back, said you
are ali right, Andy" and discounted
my note. My subsequent payments
for the stock in the Woodruff Sleep
ing Car Company I was enabled to
meet, without giving any more notes,
from the receipts of the cars them
selves 1t was thus I made my first
substantial capital.
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Bits OF The Carnegie Philosophy:

VI IS that The understand nlon0lres
" do. M justify
Of all the blessings Of life ranks
that Of good fellowship.
None knou better than the troubles Of the night editor
don't consider that suard cages
business. he uors for somebody else for himself
Concentration 1rotof honesty then Industry then
concentration
You Germans should aee the 1{oherland your
calculations refer England She the 1Iotherand.
Tie roce Of the people qN a1pas make Itself heard They
aauay be depended right pvhen their interest
aroused.
believe that the Republic immortal and that will
through all its TROUBLES with its foundation mistaken.
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4 should public utilities avhether operates
auN dollars Institution think good
one but my That IS sacred.
Speculation parasite feeding vaues and creating
neusr made dollar on the Stock Exchange in my He I
sUoud gamble uth cards speculate in kTuH
Street.
Wahips become obsolete tn fen The railroad
lasting and constantly improUss
Wenh happiness only in the that permits
oret happy.
You safely all basket is your
hrvork and then suatch the basket
1t impossible for any long keep another down.
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ter's death comes when he nal al
ready passed out OF public notice.
"A few years ago" that joacnal
says, 90 n.an ves none In IN, pub
lie eye. Vast wealth, saatehed from
opportunity by . poor Scotch lad.
me contrast between the bitter op-
ponent Of organized nbo- and the
propounder Of theories on the duties
Of wealth, the coloss4 amounts Of
his benefactions and critical scru-
tiny Of their efFects-an compelled
the attention Of the world He vas
n no sense an inventor or creator.
He undoubtedly oVeres timated tho
power Of wealth. Wealth had made
him great. and he thought It's powers
unlimited. He suffered from the
want # education. anl imagined
that The eft of $4,000 600 to Scot
tish universities could turn All Scot
tish boys aud girls into prodigies.
1T IS unneces sary 70 insist that
his expectations were unsu.aued.
and that, in many Instances, MS ben
efactions were doubtful blessings.
But it is only far to add our testi-
mony to the commences OF his de-
sire % DO good. His failure lay not
IN the Will, but in the method"
The Daily Telegraph" carried a
full page on Carnegie, saying edi-
torially:
I've have for many years thought
Andrew Carnegie modei millionaire.
He seemed the incarnation Of the deals
Of the Victorian age 40 breath of
scandal ever touched his name. He
rose 10 fortune passing the dreams
and almost tne comprehension OF ava
rice by means which even his enemies
could not a.each. Caution, shrewdness,
foresight, great organizing power
those were his weapons n the hight fog
dollars. Il marked tie same spiris
which in al MS charities designed 10
foster individual effort"
Many other papers remember
Carnegie in connection with The
labor troubles Of Pennsylvania, his
reverence for American democratic
institutions and his extensive chari-
ties IN the United States. -atner
than IN Great Britain. The Daily
Herald organ Of labor, refers very
kindly TO the man who was lately
labor's traditional enemy.
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Wanted to Be Weaver

1t was my first ambition to be Il
yeayer like my father, to have four
Ponls of my own, to employ appren-
.ees, to make speeches in the even
3 as he did on public questions
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Mr.. Scott that I would be glad to
enter his service. I was; I saw
chance to better myself.
The salary was s35 a month, $40
more than I had been getting. There
is never a boy or a man employed
whose chance doesn't come to him.
The thing is to know it and seize it.
Determined to Get On
1 have spoken of a constant de-
termination from the first to get on
in the world. There is a great deal
more in feeling that way than most
people think. There was another
determination that l formed in my
boyhood in Pittsburgh which I have
been able to carry out. A gentleman
named Colonel Anderson let it be
known to the working boys that he
could always be found in his library
Saturday afternoons and would be
glad to see them there. | went as
soon as I heard of this. Strange to
say, there was some question about
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The Carnegie Institute at
pittsburgh

TNEW men have been better op-
Il timists than Andrew Car
Il negie. Rising as he did from
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Posing srit5a a nsopte quee,a
in the days achen morie
queens acre a noueItv
g
'''"er~
sl& %$3
49, ....--t-.....A

he was consistent Radical. And I
might have become a weaver but for
something that happened when I
was ten years old and had already
been going to school for two years.
One evening l heard my father
tell my mother that steam looms
were coming into the trade and
bothering him. The steam ma
chinery, he said, was best handled
in big factories, which made it bad
for the independent master weavers.
His work was falling off. He was
not getting so many orders from the
merchants who had been in the habit
Of sending him the raw material to
be woven up.
Not very long after-it was in
1847-he came in one day from de-
livering some finished damask, looked
at me quizzically and said:
andy, I have no more work"