. Little journeys to the homes of the great . matterhow oppressed I am, just as soon as I round SandyHook and get out of sight of land, I get perfect Bill answered, And, 0 Lord, just think of therelief we all get, and everybody roared, Andy loudestof all. And the last thing that Andy did before sailingwas to raise Bills salary just ten thousand dollars ayear S3 3$ Mr. Carnegie has always liked men who are not afraidof him; and when one of his workers could convincehim that he—the worker—knew more about some par-ticular phase of the business than Mr. Carnegie, thatman was richly rewa
. Little journeys to the homes of the great . matterhow oppressed I am, just as soon as I round SandyHook and get out of sight of land, I get perfect Bill answered, And, 0 Lord, just think of therelief we all get, and everybody roared, Andy loudestof all. And the last thing that Andy did before sailingwas to raise Bills salary just ten thousand dollars ayear S3 3$ Mr. Carnegie has always liked men who are not afraidof him; and when one of his workers could convincehim that he—the worker—knew more about some par-ticular phase of the business than Mr. Carnegie, thatman was richly rewarded. Mr. Carnegie has ever beenon friendly terms with his men. And had he been in America when the Homesteadlabor trouble arose, there would have been no is firm when he should be, but he is always is wise enough and big enough to give in a Lincoln, he likes to let people have their own manages them, if need be, by indirection, ratherthan by formal edict, order and injunction. 295 ANDREW CARNEGIE. ARBARIC folk prize gold and make muchuse of silver. But the consumption of iron isthe badge of civilization. Iron rails, ironsteamboats, iron buildings! And who wasthere thirty years ago who foresaw the modern sky-scraper, any more than a hundred years ago men fore-told the iron steamship! The business of Andrew Carnegie has been to couplethe iron-mines of Lake Superior with the coal-fieldsof Pennsylvania. And to load the ore at Duluth andtransport it to Pittsburgh, a thousand miles away,and transform it into steel rails, was a matter of tendays. When the Carnegie Steel Company was recon-structed in Nineteen Hundred, it was with no inten-tion of selling out. It was the biggest, best-organizedbusiness concern in America, with possibly oneexception. Its capital was one hundred milliondollars. It owned the Homestead, the Edgar Thomsonand the Duquesne Mills. Besides these, it owned sevenother smaller mills. It owned thousands of acres of ore-la
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