The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-12

The next step toward independence and fortune came when T. T. Wood ruff, the inventor of the sleeping car, approached him with model of the invention He had not spoken to
 me a minute" Carnegies has since recalled, before, like a fash, the
 whole range of it's value burst upon me. Yes I said, that is something which this continent must have" He consulted Scott, and the three invested for the manufacture of the
 cars Carnegie, then earning $50 I monthly, had to borrow $200 on his first installment of capital, but later
 when he sold out his interest to the Pullman Company, he had realized $10,000 for the venture.
 Carnegie was 26 when the Civil | War broke out and he saw his old
 employer and friend Scott elevated to
 the post of Assistant Secretary of War. Carnegie, in turn, won an ap- | pointment as director of government l TdllWdNS dIlu ltltSI puo. lO IuC CdI mage he saw at several battles may | be traced his lifelong belief in the | folly of warfare-"a blot upon civiliz- ation"
 Unwittingly following the lead of man who was later to eclipse him
 in fortune building Carnegie. at 30
 years of age, invested in oil AS one of a syndicate he bought up vast tract of oil land. In year, to the surprise of all the investors, 1t paid the astonishing return Of S1,000,00O in cash dividends upon a capital of $40, ,000
 But iron was the magnet then attracting Carnegie. The railroads were experimenting with cast iron bridges Carnegie foresaw the de- man for a factory that could turn out the iron parts, and he formed the Keystone Bridge Works. They built. IS their first great piece, a bridge over the Ohio river, with a span Of 900 feet Demand for similar struc- lures became general, and the Key stone Works got the big orders and profits.
 Carnegie then began to see that iron rails must be given up for steel On a visit to England in 1868, he discovered the success being obtained
 here with, the Bessemer process. Carnegie quietly brought it home, md. -befoge the English makers were lware of the fact, he had adopted it n his mills. U e
 "The secret and method of my success Is simple" he said q or ganized my business into depart ments. l put the best man I could find at the head of each department, held him responsible and judged him by results. I have started more than fifty men on the road to million aires"
 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 itated to marry In 1888, however, he married Louise Whitefeld, of New York. by whom he had one child, a daughter, born in 1897 His bride was twenty years his junior. To her and her daughter probably remains a large fortune, notwithstanding Car negie's public gifts.
 As an American citizen he estab- lished 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 Scotland
 His books numbered about a dozen. his first being a testimony to his love of coaching-"An American Fourin- Hand in Great Britain" 1SS3). The next year he wrote Around the World" Then. Triumphant Democ- racy," a review of 50 years of the Republic. Upon his retirement from business in 1901, he wrote "The Cos pel of Wealth." and followed 1t with "The Empire of Business" Tn 1905 he. once an engineer in the factory cellar. wrote The Life of James Watt" the inventor of steam engine His most recent work was Problems of Today
 His theory on this subject and others, is reflected at random in numerous bits of epigramatic phras- eology culled from his interviews. speeches. and writings.
 "The instinct which led the slave