SPENT £20,000.
TO HAVE HIS EGOS FRESH. NEW YORK, July 20. Alexander Peacock, one of Andrew Carnegie's original young men partners, who has died at the age of 66, is reported to have been 'worth £4,000,000. He started on a £300 loan from Carnegie. He was a man of violent whims, and spent £20,000 on a chicken farm so that he might have fresh eggs daily. When he learned that several of his office employees had squandered £50,000 in playing the stock market and the races, he called them individually into his private office and soundly thrashed them.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 174, 25 July 1928, Page 7
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