. Little journeys to the homes of the great . nce said that the great disadvantagein the practise of law is that the better you do yourwork, the more difficult are the cases that come to is the same in railroading—or anything else, for thatmatter. Cheap men can take care of the cheap reward for all good work is not rest, but more work,and harder work. Thomas A. Scott was a man ofimmense initiative—his was the restless, tireless,ambitious nature which makes up the composite thatwe call the American Spirit. Andrew Carnegie very early in life developed thesame characteristics. He
. Little journeys to the homes of the great . nce said that the great disadvantagein the practise of law is that the better you do yourwork, the more difficult are the cases that come to is the same in railroading—or anything else, for thatmatter. Cheap men can take care of the cheap reward for all good work is not rest, but more work,and harder work. Thomas A. Scott was a man ofimmense initiative—his was the restless, tireless,ambitious nature which makes up the composite thatwe call the American Spirit. Andrew Carnegie very early in life developed thesame characteristics. He never made hasty and ill-digested suggestions and then left them to othersto carry out. When young Carnegie, just turnedinto his twenties, became private secretary to ThomasA. Scott, he was getting along as well, I thank you,as could be expected. And nobody was more delightedthan Andys mother—not even Andy himself. Andmost of Andys joy in his promotions came from thepleasure which his mother found in his ANDREW CARNEGIE. HEN Thomas A. Scott became President ofthe Pennsylvania Railroad, Andrew Carnegiebecame Superintendent of the PittsburghDivision, as a matter of course. His salarywas fifteen hundred dollars a year. And this was thetopmost turret of the tower: it was as far as the ambitionof either the mother or the young man could fly. Butthe end was not yet. Thomas Alexander Scott was born at the forgottenhamlet of London, Franklin County, , Pennsylvania, did not flourish as its foundershad expected. Behold the folly of giving big names tolittle things. Caesar Augustus Jones used to be the townfool of East Aurora, until he was crowded to the wallby Oliver Cromwell Robinson. Scott walked out of his native village—a lad of tenwho warmed his feet on October mornings wherethe cows had lain down. Later he came back and boughtthe county. Scott was a graduate of the University ofHard Knocks, and he also took several post-graduatecourses. He
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