The sun., 1919-08-12

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Andrew Carnegfe's Greatest Isene-
faction TO His Fellowmen.
That poor Scotch boy transplanted
by his family from Dunfermline to
Pittsburg seventy-one "a years ago
should die world. famous philan-
thropist in New York is not the most
impressive detail Of ANDREW CARNE-
eIE's romantic and useful career,
which. SO far as his mortal participa-
ton in the affairs Of men Is concerned,
ended yesterday with his death.
Other poor boys. stimulated by the
manifold opportunities America holds
for industry, ability and daring, have
conquered wealth and then distributed
lavishly their riches for the improve
ment of the condition of their fellow
nien. Other boys, beginning with no
endowment OF. accumulated property,
but equipped with strength and brains
and grit, have written their names
big on the glorious and inspiring rec
ord Of American achievement in hu-
man progress throughout the world.
None has been more ingenious than
Mr.. CARNEGIE was In devising means
to encourage and sustain all that is
best In human nature, none more gen.
erous, none more thoroughly able to
carry out his diverse designs; yet
tho -magnitude (which marked Mr..
CARNEorE's endowments, the broad
mindedness Of his interest and the
picturesqueness Of his enterprises In
world betterment do not give the full
measure Of his supreme service to
his fellows.
The boy who at Is started life in a
new land, who first worked as a
weaver's assistant, who at 16 was a
telegraph messenger, who laid the
foundation Of his fortune by his quick
recognition Of the possibilities of the
sleeping car, who served the Union In
the civil war as superintendent of
military railways and telegraph lines,
and who after the close OF that strug-
gle, in which all that was best In him
was brought to the front, found in
iron and its fabrication the field Of
his greatest industrial and CONNER
cial usefulness, developed in the trade
with which his name will always
be associated the instinct for the
cultivation OF the talents Of young
men. Through the exercise Of this
he conferred benefits on his fellow
citizens that should be, and we believe
will be, remembered at least as long
as the most enduring Carnegie library
building. the most ornate institution
Of learning. which owes its being to
his beneficence, remains extant.
We do not hold II a small thing
that Mr.. CARNEGIE was a pioneer In
the development Of the gigantic iron
and steel industry. His material sue
cess none but fool would belittle.
To the stupendous industrial edifice so
deeply indebted to his genius this
country is beholden for much Of Its
power and Its almost unbelievable pros
perity He risked his all In precari-
GUS experiments. He was ever ready
to discard the satisfactory familiar
processes for promising novelties. He
was no slave to precedent, no timid
slave Of the past. And throughout
his life as the director and guiding
mind of stupendous enterprises he
searched for, promoted. piled respon-
sibility on, encouraged and developed
men-young men. eager men, men who
we're impatient for progress, men
whose zeal outran their experience,
but in whose capacity for intelligent
labor, for bold imaginings, he dis
cerned the promise OF future leader
ship in the trade he made so singu-
larry his own.
In this characteristic aspect OF Mr..
CARNEGIE's full life his broad and
philosophic disposition was most nota-
bly, displayed. He feared the rivalry
Of no man in his own calling. He
collected the best workers about him.
He brought them forward from the
most unlikely places. He expected
confidently to find them in tasks in
which others would never think Of
looking for them. In every water
boy, in every laborer, in every arti-
san, in every puddler, In every clerk
he saw potential superintendent,
manager, president of great corpo-
ration. Whenever his restless hope for
the disclosure Of genius was re-