The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-08-14

Entered ct the Nezperce, Idaho, Post
office a. Second Glass Mail Matter.
ANDREW CARNEGIE DEAD.
From Poverty to Richest Foreign
Born Citizen Of America.

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summer home. Shadow Brook,
at 7:lO this morning after an ii
ness OF less than three DAYS o
bronchial pneumonia.
So sudden was his death tina
his daughter. Mrs. Roswell Mil
Ter was unable to get to her faith
er's bedside before he died Hi
wife and private secretary wer
with him at the end.
Mr.. Carnegie has spent most O
the summer at Lenox, coming lat,
IN May. and up to few weeks az,
enjoyed himself in fishing trip,
on Lake Mahkeemac, which Dor
ders his big SHADOW Brook" es
tate, and in riding about his
grounds.
Carnegie leaves his widow, who
was Miss Louise Whitefield, OF
New York, and his daughter, Mar.
garet, who married, last April
Ensign Roswell Miller of New
York.
Andrew was IL when his father
a master weaver. was brought al
most to restitution. The steam
looms drove him out of business.
The family numbered four, includ-
ing ANDY and his younger
brother, William. The parents de.
cided to emigrate to America
whence some relatives had pro
ceeded them with success. They
settled at Allegheny City, Pa,
across the river from Pittsburgh,
IN l848. The father and Andrew
found work i'm a cotton factory.
the son bobbin boy. 1t was his
first work. The salary was ST 20
q week. He was soon promoted
at a slight advance. to engineers
assistant. He stocked the boilers
and ran the engine in the factory
cellar.
At fourteen Carnegie emerged
from the engine cellar and became
q telegraph messenger.
When the Pennsylvania railroad
put up telegraph wire of it's own
ne became clerk under Divisional,
Superintendent Thomas A. Scott
His salary jumped to $35 month.
:" Mr.. Scott he observed, "was
then receiving 1925 month, and
| used to wonder what on. earth
he could do with so much money. 2
Andrew was is when his father
died. and he became at once the
bread winner for the family and a
true capitalist. He had been told
by his trusted employer that ten
shares of Adams Express stock
could be had for $500, and it was
q good investment. AT family
council that night Carnegie s
mother decided she would mort
gage her little home for $500. The
stock was bought. and it brought |
dividends of one per cent
The next step toward indepen-
dence and fortune came when T.
T. Woodruff, the inventor OF the
sleeping car, approached him with
a model Of his invention.
Carnegie was 26 when the Civil /
war broke out and he saw his old
and friend Scott elevat-
ed to the post of assistant secre-
tary of war. Carnegie in turn
won an appointment as director of /
government railways and tele-
graphs.
Unwittingly following the lead
of man who was later to eclipse
him in fortune building, Carnegie,
at 80 years of age. invested in oil.
As one of syndicate he bought 1
up vast tract of oil land. In a II
year, to the surprise of all the in
vestors, it paid the astonishing re-
turn of $1.000.000 in cash divi-
dends upon a capital Of $4,000
But iron was the magnet then
Carnegie. The romance
Of his success was such that the
boy of 184S became
some 40 years later the worlds
leading producer Of steel, a multi
himself, and fast
bringing a score Of other men into
the same category.
Carnegie's mother, to whom he
repeatedly gave credit for all that
he was. lived to be an octogen-
arian, and so devoted was he to
her that he hesitated to marry In
1883, however. he married Louise
Whitefield, Of New York, by
whom he had one child, a daugh-
err, Margaret. born in 1897 His
ride was twenty years his junior
70 her and her daughter probab-
Y remains large fortune, not
outstanding Carnegie's public {
fits. :
Andrew Carnegie had given
way $35O,000,00O up to June l,
918, q compilation of his bene-
Ictions prepared by the Carne- Y
e endowment for international
ace shows.
4 -- A. Jornocf IF Mr., Car