MR CARNEGIE'S START

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 13 April 1910, Page 5

MR CARNEGIE'S START

Mr Carnegie, who has given away for public uses a sum exceeding £30,000,000 —or more 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 £2000.

"I remember," Mr Carnegie related, "I was working for the Pennsylvania Railway, when a fellow 'named Woodruff came round with a couple of little sleeping-car models wrapped 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. "Later, when I saw Woodruff again he said to me, 'You seem like a bright young fellow, Carnegie. I believe I'll let you in with me on this.' 'All right,' 1 said, 'I'm willing.' 'I'll give you an. eighth interest,' he said to me and named the sum — several 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 me. '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 oould save that ' ut of my salary, which had just been raised to eight pounds a month. "That's how I got my start. I made £2000 out of that stock, and later I got into the Pullman Company."