Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-11
Carnegie, Great
PhiIanihrOpist, Is Dead
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The former Miss Carnegie, heiress
of her fathers millions is twenty-five
years old. Her husband is two years
her senior.
MI. Carnegie was the holder of
numerous honors bestowed upon him
by rulers and peoples all over the
world.
He received as a result of his bene-
factions abroad the freedom of fifty
four cities in Great Britain and Ireland.
He endowed 5000 municipal libraries
in the United States in addition to his
numerous other p~hilanthropic acts. :
e He was a member of numerous phil
anthropical, civic and scientific bodies.
He was a commander of the Legion
of Honor of France and also had re-
ceived the grand crosses, Order of
Orange, Nassau and the Order of Dan
bridge. He was a member of many
prominent clubs.
Elihu Root. Jr., SON of former Unit
ed States Senator Root, whose father
for years has been Mr.. Carnegie's
doubtless would be probated here. He
intimated that the death of Mr.. Car
negie would have no effect on the
future of the Carnegie Institute and
similar institutions founded by him.
THE world has lost a great man
and a great benefactor to humanity"
was the comment of Charles M.
Steel corporation, when informed to-
day at his country home at Loretta,
Pa, of the death of Mr.. Carnegie
Pay Tribute in Pittsburgh
sD Associated Press-
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 11-This city
where andrew Carnegie laid the
foundation for his vast fortune in the
steel building today paid tribute TO
the dead magnate. Mayor e. ".
Babcock ordered all flags in Pitts
burgh lowered to half mast. At the
Carnegie Institute, the scene of one
of his philanthropic works, plans
were made to drape the building in
crepe IN respect to the benefactor.
At the steel mills which bear his
name preparations were made to
suspend work and other institutions
in which he was interested planned
similar action.
Mr.. Carnegie has spent most Of the
summe in Lennox, coming here
from New York late in May, and up
to a few weeks ago enjoyed himself
in almost daily trips ON Lake NAH
keenac which bordered on his big
estate here, and In riding about his
grounds. He was taken Ill Friday
and grew suddenly worse. His adj
vanced age and lessened powers of
resistance fastened the end. Mr.
Carnegie leaves a widow, who raj
Miss Louise Whitefield of New York,
and a daughter Margaret who mar
ried M. Roswell Miller, of New York,
last April.
Mrs. Miller hurried from her home
in Millbank, N. Y, when word came
of her fathers approaching death.
but arrived a few minutes too late.
Although Mr.. Carnegie was taken
Ill Friday it was not until today that
his condition took a critical turn.
Andrew Carnegie during the latter
period Of his life undoubtedly rank
ed as the greatest American spender
of endowment and p~hilanthropic
moneys.
That Ia, the amounts Of cash
which he donated to enterprises of a
public or q~uasi-public nature exceed
ed those Of any other American phil
~anthropist. In substance, using the
slang Of the day, he might have been
called the champion philanthropist.
1t might also be correct to character
ize him as the foremost teacher OF
frugality and thrift in America dur
ing the past two decades
He was best known in two fields.
Steel-where he made money. And
public libraries-to which special
field he gave money to an unprece-
dented and sensational extent.
Born in 1895 in Dunfermline. Fife
shire, Scotland, he came to the U. s.
A. in 1913 and took a job at a dollar
a week as a weaver's assistant In a
mill at Allegheny, Pa. Next he was
messenger boy for the Ohio Tele-
graph Company in Pittsburgh n
soon was a telegraph operator for the
Pennsylvania railroad. mounting up
ward and onward-for his was an
upward and onward career e pluribus
unum-till he became superintendent
of the Pittsburgh division.
The Woodruff Sleeping Car Com
pany and Investments in oil lands
near Oil City, Pa, were h mediums
through which he laid the founda-
ton for a fortune with which to be-
gin operations in the steel game,
where he made his way to suprem-
acy. He introduced the Bessemer
process in 1868 and a string OF
bridge, iron and steel plants were
brought together in 1893 in the Car
negie Steel Company.
Sold Out to u. S. Steel
The United States Steel Corpora
ton paid him $S00,000,0 900 for his
entire holdings of steel in 1901. What
Is told as the bitterest experience in
his life, is a conversation between j.
P. Morgan and Carnegie on an At
lantic liner leaving New York after
closing up the biggest steel heal in
human history. 1t was over the
morning coffee and Mr.. Carnegie
said: do you know. Mr.. Morgan. |
have been thinking 1t over and l find
I made a mistake. I should have
asked you another hundred million
for those Carnegie properties
Morgan answered. IF you had, l
should have paid it."
Financial journals told this anec-
Tote as authentic. 1t is certain there
was then involved the most daring in
dustrial strategy and the most curious
psychology of financial rivalry that
American economics had ever wit
messed. Bridge and tube corpora
tons, owned largely by Morgan In
t~erests. had been planning to manu-
facture their own billetsF field DOM
mated by Carnegie. He sent out word
he was going into the bridge and tub
business and would build his own
railroads from Pittsburgh to the Great
Lakes on the west and to the Atlantic
seaboard on the east. Surveying par
ties were rushed out to find the
routes. Other preliminaries made it
look as though the canny Scot at
Pittsburgh was making no bluff at all:
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