Evening star., 1935-11-24

yellow -thatched and precocious. fond
of memorizing long passages of books
into which he delved and repeating
proverbs, a habit which clung to him
throughout his career His favorite
| playmate was George Lauder, a cousin
possessed of an acquisitive nature SIM
| liar to Andrews, and who later was to
become his partner in America, and
the grandfather of Polly Lauder, wife
| of Gene Tunney, one-time heavyweight
| champion of the prize ring.
The Dunfermline of Carnegie's boy
hood was in the throes of the indus
trial revolution by which machines
supplanted hand labor, and this led
directly to his transportation to the
land where he became an industrial
giant. AS William Carnegie's four
hand looms increasingly showed their
| inability to compete with the intrud-
ing machines and the family fortune
continued to sink, thoughts turned
/ toward America, and particularly
Pittsburgh, whence many Of the
neighborhood had already migrated.
To ANDREWS mother fell the great
decision, and with customary
courage and finality she decreed the
family should try new fields. Accord
ingly, in 1848, when Andrew was l3,
the hegira to America began in the
sailing vessel Wiscasset.
The family was welcomed to Slab
town" across the river from Pitts
! burgh, by old friends and relatives
from Scotland, but William Carnegie's
success in the New World was indif-
ferent. Upon the mother devolved the
responsibility of keeping the little
| brood together, which she did by help
ing neighborhood cobbler., Then the
father got job in a cotton mill, and
in the same place little Andy earned
his first regular money a little more
than 81 week, as the bobbin boy.
From this he advanced to telegraph
messenger boy at $3.50 per week He
railroading, in which he rose to super
intendent of the Pittsburgh division of
the Pennsylvania.
Then the war between the States
began and Carnegie's superior, Tom
Scott, was made Assistant Secretary
of War, in charge Of transportation.
Scott took Carnegie to Washington,
where, as chief of the Army telegraph,
he came in contact with Lincoln and
other celebrities of the Union cause.
PY 1867 his iron business was really
= prospering and Andrew Carnegie
made New York his headquarters. be-
ginning operations in Wall Street,
where his large fortune was to be
rounded out. He was a success as a
bond salesman on grand scale and
eventually he came into contact with
Junius S. Morgan, founder of the
House of Morgan, an epochal day in
Carnegie's career. He was able to
show even that great banker some
financial stunts, then and later.
In 1870 Carnegie found himself
bidding against George Pullman for
sleeping car contracts, and out of
overtures made by the fast-thinking
Scot came the Pullman Palace Car
Co., in which he eventually became the
largest stockholder. In the meantime,
his iron-making business was making
still more money, and when Bessemer
steel came into use Carnegie. although
at first unimpressed, got aboard.
The panic of 1873 was weathered
and the steel age dawned, to bring
Carnegie undreamed-of riches. In
1881 he consolidated his principal
holdings under the name Carnegie
Brothers & Co., Ltd, in which he held
firm control. Before long he formed
an alliance with Henry C. Frick, who
controlled fabulously rich Connells-
vile coke production, and together
they took over the Homestead works,
where Carnegie's name was to become
lastingly anathema to organized labor.
The year 1885 was successful one