Evening star., 1935-11-27
LIBRARY DISPLAYS
CARNEGIE CIT rs
Books, Pamphlets and Pho
tographs Tell of Phi|an.
thropiSt's Life.
BY JAMES WALDO FAwCETT.

of Andrew Carnegie, the Library OF
Congress is exhibiting some of its
most interesting and valuable treas
ures-a selection of the books,
pamphlets. photographs, engravings.
manuscripts and letters by or about
the great phiIahthropist given sew
eral years ago by his widow.
The display fills Sc sections OF
seven large cases in the south gallery
of the main floor of the Library
building. Its scope extends from
Carnegie's boyhood up to the present
year, and it represents one OF the
most notable collections of biographi-
cal data to be found anywhere in the
world today.
Probably, sonner or later, it will
be used in the writing of definitive
life of the Scottish weaver's boy, who
by his skill in accommodating money
and his genius in dispensing it for
the improvement of mankind earned
universal fame and died, in 1919,
mourned by millions of plain people,
not vastly different from himself. I.
Background Is Shown.
How undistinguiShed was the back
ground of his career is manifested in
the Library show by a photograph
Of his birthplace-a tiny three-room
cottage at Dunfermline, almost as
humble as the log cabin in which
Abraham Lincoln is supposed to have
. been born. With it are copies of the
registration of his parents marriage
and. the record of his own debut on
the world stage-both Transcribed
from the General Registry of Edin-
burgh and officially attested.
The youngster who was destined
to become the premier steel-master
of the age appears in a portrait made
when he was 5 years old. He looks
out of the frame with gentle, dreamy
eyes, but he holds his head with a
certain confident pride which he
maintained to the last. Another
photograph presents him with his
brother Thomas. eight years his
junior, in 1851. Still third depicts
him when he was a messenger boy
in Pittburgh, and %ith it there is
a letter from A L. Hardy. concerning
q romantic incident of that period
the prompt return of draft for $500
which Carnegie had found in the
street.
"Plan for Life
Also exhibited is Carnegie'S S
"schema" or plan for life" dated
1868, in which he projected his future
activities in business and Self-educa-
ton. With the document are letter
to his uncle, George Lauder. one of
the principal mentors of his youth,
and a letter to his cousin of the same
name, dated, respectively. 1851 and
1862; also a pfotostat of his fathers
declaration of intention to become an
American citizen.
OF special interest is General Order
No 10, Pennsylvania r. R., appoint
ing Carnegie superintendent of the
Western Division, Pittsburgh to Cone
maugh-the scrap of paper" which
mayked the beginning of his prodig-
ious fortune. His first big money
was the result of his introduction of
sleeping cars in his territory. The
contract gave him the power 70 buy
a one-eighth share in the Woodruff
Co.. original holder of the Pullman
patents.
Meanwhile, however, Carnegie was
pursuing his objective in literature.
Business, he had decided, was to be
only an avocation; his real purpose in
life was the art of letters. The Library
proves the notable degree of success
he attained by its display of books
and pamphlets on railroading. steel
manufacturing, other industries Of
Pennsylvania, Democracy in Eng
land" "The Reunion of Britain and
America" British Pessimism." "Tri-
lnphant Democracy" Industrial
Peace" "Thc Negro in America" :"
Tariff" Railroad Rates and Re-
bates" How to Win a Fortune" and
How I Served My Apprenticeship"
Also, Carnegies biography of James
Watt, his American Four in Hand in
Britain" THE Gospel of Wealth." the
typescript of his autobiography. many
translations Of his works into foreign
languages and multitudinous reprints.
The authors practice was to repro
duce in booklet form the essays and
commentaries he published first in
standard periodicals.
Wit Is Demonstrated.
Carnegie's wit is demonstrated par
ticularly in a humorous sketch on
"Dr. Golf" in which he advocates re-
course to the links for improved
health. His humanitarianism is re-
f1ected in his address at the dedica-
ton Of the Peace Palace at The
Hague and his cultural idealism IN his
rectorial address at st. Andrews Uni
versity.
But the social aspect of his
philosophy perhaps is most con-
Vincipgly proved by the nbrary's
showing Of the correspondence re-
lating to his gift of $4,000, 900 for
the advancement of teaching and by
letters from the former Kaiser
William II Of Germany, King Ed
ward VII and King George v of
Great Britain, Queen Wilhelmina of
The Netherlands and other sovereigns.
In the cases, likewise, are numbers
Of letters from Gladstone and Her.
bert Spencer, Lord Morley, Presidents
Benjamin Harrison, William McKin-
ley, Theodore Roosevelt, William