Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1901-03-10 | Page 12 | Carnegie's Splendid Start

I SPLENDID START TJ vING GOT COT OUT OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY Andrew Carnegie is set settling HA H Hi tUng down oW to the library endowment business i iz grim earnest e rn t Every Everyday Everyday day brinks brings news of or some town that has bean been offered a contribution O On Friday four tour towns were added to the list and the contributions offered sum Rum to At this rate in the course of or a year Andrev Andrew will have relieved himself of or some and several hundred hun red towns tons and cities will have bae been supplied with libraries This looks like a n pretty fair start t on the tc 11 t die poor Por Even those who were the most skeptical when the worthy HIs brags that the ambition of his life was to finish life as he began it cent must ad that ha he is acting very much like a man that meant hat he said Those who were ware wont to look upon Andrew as a good E d deal d al of or in the business world but confess that after all he is a mighty t brand of or pirate If he lie was industrious and relentless In acquiring he h exhibits the same qualities s in getting rid of or it Four endowments a day da are about as many as a 8 careful man could conscientiously make nor are there many manyin ways in which money could be pent to better or more permanent advantage to so ao reat rt a number of people i iA A few fw t w of this work and will years Andrew Andre will have the country planted so s thick with Carnegie libraries that for hundreds of years to come come his name will be familiar to everyone In fact If he keeps up his present gait the time may not be far tar distant when Carnegie will become a synonym for library and people will win refer to such institution an as a Carnegie or perchance as the publio Andrew In any event the sturdy Scotsman has hit upon a highly laudable ble hobby and one that other millionaires might well learn to Tide rIde t 0