A Successful Career.

Evening Star, Issue 7332, 3 October 1887, Page 3

A Successful Career.

To-day, at the age of forty-nine, Andrew Carnegie is the greatest iron and steel manufacturer in the world. Mr Carnegie's ! love for his native city will be apparent from the following, which we quote from his famous ' Four-in-Hand': "What Benares is to the Hindoo, Mecca to the Mohammedan, Jerusalem to the Christian, all that Dunfermline is to me ;" and proof of the depth of his love he has given from the very hour that the sun began to smile upon his life. For many years he manifested a lively interest in all Dunfermline institutions, and in 1575 he handed' 6vei to the Council the 'sum of 'L5.000 for the purpose of founding city baths. Since the baths were erected Mr Carnegie has added to their efficiency by handing the Council Ll,ooofor carrying' out certain improvements. After the baths came the Carnegie Free Library—an institution which was established at a cost to the founder of LB,QOO. The building is a handsome addition to' the architectural beauties of the dtiy. ' Mr Carnegie's next gift to TJjunformlihe the grand historical window in the Abbey, which cost at least L 3.000; and after this came his magnificent subscription of LI,OOO toward the erection of the new high school. On the occasion of his visit, two years ago, he foresaw that the high school would have a struggle for at leatt a few years; and so that the institution might be piacpej beyond, tfie rdgfpn of' (Jolibt, ""lie handsbrhely asfcb'd the/chairman of the School Board to endoVjr the,' school to the extent of tIOQ q, - fpr flv<j years. T\\» W$ fcorifiitJPß ftpaphed to the endowment Was that the !AQQ should &ot be applied toward the reduction of the but that the bright scholars of tltf waases, who could take advantage of a secondary education, should be admitted to the school at a reduced fee. With these princely gifts Mr Carnegie's generous treatment of Dunfermline is not by any means exhausted, A couple of years ago ho sent the Bun'fermline Radical Association' ft' cheque for L.IOO I to eifablo it to" maintain the politioal i traditions of the olty, and last year he for- ■ warded LIOO toward the Hunter, memorial i fund. Every year he spends from Ll5O to

L2OO by way of creating a taste for music in the burgh, and every month he is continuing in well-doing—assisting struggling societies established for good among the community. New York has benefited by Mr Carnegie's munificence to the extent of 50,000d0l applied toward the establishing of the Carnegie Laboratory, and Braddock (Pa.), possesses a free library which cost Mr Carnegie L17.0G0. Pittsburg and Allegheny, towns only separated from each other by a river, are both to have a library from Mr Carnegie. Mr Carnegie has generously set aside 1,100,000 for the Pittsburg library, and the Allegheny City Library and Music Hall will cost him about L 50.000. In London Mr Carnegie recently founded a scholarship in the School of Music, at a cost of L 1,000; and his most recent gift is L 50.000 for the establishing of a free library in Edinburgh. Mr Carnegie is an effective and a fluent speaker. For many years he has been a regular contributor to the magazines in America. In 1883 he published 'An American Four-in-hand in Britain,' a book which is written in a most entertaining style and had an enormous circulation in the United States and in this country. ( A year later came his ' Round the World,' the outcome of a year's travel in 1879-80. - ' Round the World' was followed by Mr Carnegie's greatest literary effort, ' Triumphant Democracy.'—New York 'World.'