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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12476, 1 March 1909, Page 2

blind beggars are'"allowed to ; solicit alms in the streets of Madrid. ; What Mr . Andrew Carnegie is actu- i ally worth would be interesting to j know, says a New York paperl The amount- 1 has been estimated at i £90,000,000. He is said to have given i away to charitable and educational in- i stitutibh's-no less than £34,000,000 i sterling and there is yery^little doubt j that he still Has millions more. As everybody, knows, he is a Scot, but he was only ten years old when he went to Pittsburgh He has been a bobbin boy at five shillings a week, a and a telegraph operator at £60 a a year. He 'began to getjich out of an a oil", farm and his ironworks in Pitts- ' burg brought him many, many nui- t lions. He sold his rights, for teixty- a millions. t