MR. CARNEGIE'S START.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 10

MR. CARNEGIE'S START.

♦ Mr. Carnegie, who has given away for public uses a sum exceeding £30,000,000 —or moro than £400,000 for every one of the seventy-two years he has lived — explained at Chicago on 15th February how he made, his first 52000. "I remember," Mr. Carnegie related, "I was working for the Pennsylvania Railway, when v feHow named Woodruff came round with a couple of little sleeping-car models mapped in cloth. 'Why,' I said to him, 'we shall need those some day in the railway business.' The outcome was that the Pennsylvania Railway ordered a couple. "letter, wheu I saw Woodruff again he said to me, 'You seem like a bright j young fellow, Carnegie. I believe I'll j let you in with me on this.' 'All right,' I said, 'I'm willing.' 'I'll give you an eighth interest,' ho said to me and named the sum—s everal hundred dollars— that I should have to pay. "I hadn't the money ; but I went to* one of my employers and asked him to lend it to roe. 'All right, Andy, you're a good boy,' he said, 'I'll let you have it. 'I'll pay you back a pound a week,' I told him, for I knew I could save that out of my salary, which had just been raised to eight pounds a month. "That's how I K°t my start. I made £2000 nut of that stock, ana later I got into tin* Pullman Company."