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ANDREW CARNEC
We have inst been read
of the rich man, Andrewcounted
his wealth at the
business at four or five hu
He was born in 1837. at
a one story stone cottage.
His father was a mastei
looms in his own home,
vention of the steam loor
and finally it stopped altog
"Andy, I have no more
mcnt the father made to
mined to migrate to Pit
voyage from Glasgow to 2
? n ?-? f 11 Q/w fnr> coilirii
in a Lilian u\ju"iun ocu 1111?
weeks. From New York,
journey was continued to t
There Andrew helped t<
first work being as a bobbi
cents a week. For this he
. "His next situation." sa
fire a boiler and run the si
machinery at a small factoi
was an onerous position ;
to affect the health and to
His third position was
boy, at a salary of $11.25
was unacquainted with th
city, he set himself to le;
names of all the business h
Soon he was able to shut 1
order the names of the fir
and of those on the other.
"One night, at the end
Homer Bates, writing in th
1908, "he did not receive
boys as usual, but was toh
the others had left the r
was coming. How could
mother in disgrace? Whe
ier said: 'Andy, I have r
eluded that you are wortl
Instead of $11.25 f?r thi:
. $13,50.'"
Mr. Carnetrie has told of
the Pittsburgh office mor
Crossing the Allegheny Ri1
row sidewalk, but ran th
broad wagon road. A ra
about your millionaires ! A1
bined, never gave the hapj
month. Arrived at the liti
handed my mother the us
* 1 f J t U t Itp frrno t
r>ea ioia uiuum
Sunday, we were all siti
and I said. 'Mother, I ha
and then I gave her the Jj
it. Father and she were <
THE PRESBYTERIAN
T1? r T/^'D 1
I ILO ri/A 1
HE'S FIRST MONEY.
ing a sketch of the early life
Carnegie. It is said that he
: time when he retired from
ndred million dollars.
Dumfermline, in Scotland, in
r weaver who had four hand
Before long, however, the inn
make work harder to get,
jether.
: work!" was the announce
his son. Then they detertsburg,
Pennsylvania. The
sew York was made in 1848,
^ vessel. It required seven
by steamboat and canal, the
he destination.
} make the family living, his
in boy at a dollar and twenty
toiled twelve hours a day.
>*s Barnard Alderson, was to
team engine which drove the
y. For a boy of thirteen this
the heavy strain soon began
tell upon his nerves,
that of telegraph messenger
per month. Finding that he
e commercial quarter of the
arn, and even by heart, the
ouses in the principal streets,
"lis- eyes and repeat in correct
ms on one side of the street
of the month," says David
ie Century Magazine for July,
his pay with the rest of the
J by the cashier to wait until
oom. He thought dismissal
he ever meet his father and
n they were alone, the cashloticed
your work, and coni
more than the other boys.
5 month, I have given you
what followed : "I ran from
e than a mile to my house,
cer, I would not take the nare
whole way across on the
ise of $2.25 a month! Talk
1 the millions I've made, com)iness
of that raise of $2.25 a
tie cottage where we lived, I
ual $11.25. a"d that night in
? 4 TU? ?/?vf mnrnfncr
. SCtlCl. X IIC lltAl b)
ting at the breakfast table,
ive something else for you,'
*2.25 and told her how I got
lelighted to hear of my good
OF THE SOUTH.
itnTcHm
fortune, but, motherlike, si
then came tears of joy."
Another promotion came
efforts to make himself m
before the operators begar
learned to send a message, ;
derstand a message by sour
his accomplishment when,
the wires an important mess
an operator at $25 per mon
An interesting incident o
was now sixteen?is told b
student habit; his mind wa
school, studied grammar a
and wrote letters to Eastei
and nr>1itira1 npwe \Tr T
in the Pittsburgh office) in
time Andrew Carnegie sot
the library for working boys
by a Colonel Anderson in .
on the ground that he was
incident may have had an ii
to give, in later life, the 11
use of everyone, rich and
name famous wherever t
spoken.
When Andrew was seven
the superintendent of the
Pennsylvania, offered him a
rapher at thirty-five dollar
company was anxious to re
him four hundred dollars c
Scott. Not only were the
no night work?but there >
tion.
His new employer told
make a good investment in t
Company stock, for sale a
money saved, but he had 1
offered to lend him one hu
negie secured five hundred
the little house. The share
first time in his life Mr. Ca
Soon came the opportuni
vestment. A stranger, me
him the crude model of a
need to explain it at great
said, "I seemed to see its \i
would speak about his mod*
VII t II uoiooiitan^ v cry so
over Pennsylvania Railroac
to manufacture them, and 2
first payment amounting ti
dollars. "He applied to his
"and it was a delightful
manager, patting him on t
right, Andy," and willinglj
r* 2- ?t -
^arnegie, reierring to tills
proud day for a man when 1
to be named in comparisor
March 23, 1910.
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lie said I deserved it, and
in consequence of Andrew's
ore useful. By practicing
1 work in the morning he
ind he was soon able to unld.
Attention was called to
one morning, he took from
age. Soon he found himself
tli.
f this period of his life?he
y Mr. Bates. "He had the
is active, he attended night
nd composition, read well,
:n newspapers, giving local
. B. A. David (an operator
formed me that about that
ight the privilege of using
i which had been established
Allegheny, but was refused
not a 'working boy.' The
nfluence in determining him
lillions for libraries for the
poor, that have made his
he English language is
teen, Mr. Thomas A. Scott,
Pittsburgh Division of the
position as clerk and telegs
a month. The telegraph
tain his services and offered
i year. He went with Mr.
: hours shorter?there was
vas more chance of promohim
of an opportunity to
en shares of Adams Express
t $600. Andrew had little
bought a home. Mr. Scott
j,11 i if- r*?
iiuicu uuiiais, anu mr.
dollars on a mortgage on
:s were bought, and for the
rnegie was a capitalist,
ty for another lucrative int
while traveling, showed
sleeping car. "He did not
length," Mr. Carnegie has
due in a flash. I told him I
el to Mr. Scott, and I did so
on two trial cars were run
I. A company was formed
dr. Carnegie took stock, the
o two hundred and twentv
> bank," says Mr. Alderson,
surprise to him when the
he back, said, "You are all
r discounted his note. Mr.
incident, remarks, "It is a
le pays his last note, but not
i with the day in which he