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Carnegie's education and passion for reading was given a great boost by Colonel James Anderson, who opened his personal library of 400 volumes to working boys each Saturday night.
The money was secured by the act of his mother placing a $ 500 mortgage on the family's $ 700 home, but the opportunity was only available because of Carnegie's close relationship with Scott.
The fraternity's mission reflects Carnegie's values by developing young men to share their talents to create harmony in the world.
However, Carnegie's reputation was permanently damaged by the Homestead events.
Braddock is also the location of the first of Andrew Carnegie's 1, 679 ( some sources list 1, 689 ) public libraries in the US, designed by William Halsey Wood of Newark, NJ, and dedicated on March 30, 1889.
In 1906, N & W president Lucius E. Johnson was brought to the Standard Oil building at 26 Broadway in New York City by Andrew Carnegie to meet with one of Carnegie's old friends: Henry Huttleston Rogers.
From just 1900 to 1917, almost 1, 700 libraries were constructed by Carnegie's foundation, insisting that local communities first guarantee tax support of each library built.
I shall not bury them but give them to the lads who long for a wider education "; his philosophy quietly anticipated Andrew Carnegie's much publicized Gospel of Wealth by more than 25 years.
Rockefeller's interest in philanthropy on a large scale began in 1889, influenced by Andrew Carnegie's published essay, The Gospel of Wealth, which prompted him to write a letter to Carnegie praising him as an example to other rich men.
In the riots of 1892 at Carnegie's steel works in Homestead, Pennsylvania, a group of 300 Pinkerton detectives, whom the company had hired to break a bitter strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, were fired upon by strikers and 10 were killed.
J. P. Morgan and the attorney Elbert H. Gary founded U. S. Steel in 1901 ( incorporated on February 25 ) by combining Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company with Gary's Federal Steel Company and William Henry " Judge " Moore's National Steel Company for $ 492 million ($ billion today ).
Frick and Carnegie's partnership was strained over actions taken in response to the Homestead Steel Strike, an 1892 labor strike at the Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company, called by the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers Union.
Each style was chosen by the community, although as the years went by James Bertram, Carnegie's secretary, became less tolerant of designs which were not to his taste.
The impact of Carnegie's library philanthropy was maximized by his timing.
Interest in libraries was also heightened at a crucial time in their early development by Carnegie's high profile and his genuine belief in their importance.
In 1935, the centennial of his Carnegie's birth, a copy of the portrait of him originally painted by F. Luis Mora was given to libraries he helped fund.
It was added to George Lauder Carnegie's " Plum Orchard " estate on Cumberland Island, Georgia, in the winter of 1903 / 04, and is now owned by the National Park Service.
At Andrew Carnegie's bidding, Hill studied the characteristics of these achievers and developed 16 " laws " of success intended to be applied by anybody to achieve success.
Before U Nu became Prime Minister, he had translated, in the late 1930s, Dale Carnegie's book, How to Win Friends and Influence People ( Lupaw Luzaw Louknee in Burmese-in retranslaton it roughly meant ' How to Take Advantage of Man by Man '); later the translated name was changed to the more palatable ' Meikta Bala Htika ' which can be retranslated as A Treatise on Friendly Social Contract.
Carnegie's expedition was originally intended to terminate at Halls Creek, but since they had found no gold-bearing or pastoral land, the party decided to continue exploring, by returning to Coolgardie by a more easterly overland route.
Today the museum continues Carnegie's love of contemporary art by staging the Carnegie International every few years.

Carnegie's and wealth
Washington Duke at Duke University, Ezra Cornell at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins at Johns Hopkins University, Leland Stanford at Stanford University, and Cornelius Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt University are several notable examples of Andrew Carnegie's gospel of wealth mentality and Carnegie Mellon University is one such result.
Carnegie's personal experience as an immigrant, who with help from others worked his way into a position of wealth, reinforced his belief in a society based on merit, where anyone who worked hard could become successful.

Carnegie's and had
At the suggestion of his friend Benjamin Ruff, Carnegie's partner Henry Clay Frick had formed the exclusive South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club high above Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
During David Carnegie's expedition through the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts in 1896 he encountered some Aborigines who had among their possessions an iron tent peg, the lid of a tin matchbox and part of the ironwork of a saddle.
The union voted to go back to work on Carnegie's terms ; the strike had failed and the union had collapsed.
This partnership ensured that Carnegie's steel mills had adequate supplies of coke.
Despite the contributions Frick had made towards Andrew Carnegie's fortune, Carnegie disregarded him in many executive decisions including finances.
In 1906, as N & W president, Johnson had the dubious distinction of being brought to the Standard Oil building at 26 Broadway in New York City by Andrew Carnegie to meet with one of Carnegie's old friends, millionaire financier Henry Huttleston Rogers.
Initially, his father had thought that Scientology was similar to Dale Carnegie's self-improvement techniques ; however, after his ordeal, the elder Lottick came to believe that the organization is a " school for psychopaths ".
Frick, who feuded with Carnegie after they split as business associates, had the building designed to be taller than Carnegie's in order to encompass it in constant shadow.

Carnegie's and many
Carnegie Corporation has helped establish or endowed a variety of institutions, including the Carnegie libraries, the National Research Council, the Russian Research Center at Harvard, and the Children's Television Workshop, and for many years heavily supported Carnegie's other philanthropic organizations, especially Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ( CEIP ), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ( CFAT ), and the Carnegie Institution for Science ( CIS ).

Carnegie's and British
Carnegie's criticism of British society did not mean dislike ; on the contrary, one of Carnegie's ambitions was to act as a catalyst for a close association between the English-speaking peoples.

Carnegie's and friends
Built to a massive size and covering a full city block, Frick told friends he was building it to " make Carnegie's place look like a miner's shack.

Carnegie's and including
The 2003-04 season saw seven concerts of Gordon's music in New York alone including three world premieres and three American premieres, most notably the world premiere of Gotham at Carnegie's Zankel Hall and the American premiere of Weather by Ensemble Resonanz at Columbia University's Miller Theater.

Carnegie's and .
Carnegie's empire grew to include the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works, ( named for John Edgar Thomson, Carnegie's former boss and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad ), Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Works, the Lucy Furnaces, the Union Iron Mills, the Union Mill ( Wilson, Walker & County ), the Keystone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel Works, the Frick Coke Company, and the Scotia ore mines.
Carnegie's share of this amounted to $ 225, 639, 000 ( presently, $), which was paid to Carnegie in the form of 5 %, 50-year gold bonds.
The bonds were to be delivered within two weeks to the Hudson Trust Company of Hoboken, New Jersey, in trust to Robert A. Franks, Carnegie's business secretary.
The highlight for them all was a triumphal return to Dunfermline, where Carnegie's mother laid the foundation stone of a Carnegie Library for which he donated the money.
In 1886, Carnegie's younger brother Thomas died at age 43.
Carnegie's grave site at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in North Tarrytown, New York. The footstone of Andrew CarnegieCarnegie died on August 11, 1919, in Lenox, Massachusetts of bronchial pneumonia.
On the subject of charity Andrew Carnegie's actions diverged in the most significant and complex manner from Herbert Spencer's philosophies.
Later in life, Carnegie's firm opposition to religion softened.
Carnegie's personal papers reside at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh jointly administer the Andrew Carnegie Collection of digitized archives on Carnegie's life.
It is most probably based upon Andrew Carnegie's Skibo Castle, befitting the character of Scrooge McDuck as a loose caricature of Carnegie.
* The first Carnegie library is opened in Andrew Carnegie's hometown, Dunfermline, Scotland.

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