Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Mackie, J.B., quoted, 3, 9.
Macy, V. Everit, 277.
Martin, Robert, Mr. Carnegie's only schoolmaster, 13-15, 21.
Mason and Slidell, 102.
Mellon, Judge, of Pittsburgh, 1.
Memorizing, benefit of, 21, 39.
Mill, John Stuart, as rector of St. Andrews, 272.
Miller, Thomas N., 45, 46, 110;
on the doctrine of predestination, 75;
partner with Mr. Carnegie, 115, 130, 133;
death of, 130;
sells his interest, 133, 134.
Mills, D.O., 260.
Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir, 260.
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 171, 172, 256.
Morgan, Junius S., 155, 156, 170.
Morgan, J.S., & Co., negotiations with, 169-72.
Morland, W.C., 42.
Morley, John, and Mr. Carnegie, 21, 22, 293;
address at Carnegie Institute, 188;
on Lord Rosebery, 311;
on the Earl of Elgin, 314;
on Mr. Carnegie, 322 _n._;
pessimistic, 322, 323;
visits America, 324, 325;
and Elihu Root, 324;
and Theodore Roosevelt, 325;
and Lord Acton's library, 325;
and Joseph Chamberlain, 326, 327.
Morley, R.F., 100 _n._
Morris, Leander, cousin of Mr. Carnegie, 51.
Morrison, Bailie, uncle of Mr. Carnegie, 4-6, 9, 11, 210, 287, 312.
Morrison, Margaret, _see_ Carnegie, Margaret.
Morrison, Thomas, maternal grandfather of Mr. Carnegie, 4-6, 287.
Morrison, Thomas, second cousin of Mr. Carnegie, 145.
Morton, Levi P., 165.
Mount Wilson Observatory, 261, 262.
Municipal government, British and American, 314-16.
"Naig," Mr. Carnegie's nickname, 17.
National Civic Federation, 234.
National Trust Company, Pittsburgh, 224.
Naugle, J.A., 237.
New York, first impressions of, 28;
business headquarters of America, 149.
Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 150.
Ocean surveys, 261.
Ogden, Robert C., 277.
Oil wells, 136-39.
Oliver, Hon. H.W., 42, 49.
Omaha Bridge, 164, 165.
Optimism, 3, 162;
optimist and pessimist, 323.
Organs, in churches, 278, 279.
_Our Coaching Trip_, quoted, 48, 110;
privately published, 212.
Palmer, Courtlandt, 150.
Panama Canal, 359, 360, 372.
Pan-American Congress, 345, 346.
Panic of 1873, the, 171, 172, 189-93.
Park, James, pioneer steel-maker of Pittsburgh, 199, 200.
Parliament, membership and meetings, 315.
Partnership better than corporation, 221.
Patiemuir College, 2.
Pauncefote, Sir Julian, and Mr. Blaine, 355;
the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, 359, 360.
Peabody, George, his body brought home on the warship Monarch, 282.
Peabody, George Foster, 277.
Peace, Mr. Carnegie's work for, 282-86;
Palace, at The Hague, 284, 285.
Peace Society of New York, 285, 286.
Peacock, Alexander R., partner of Mr. Carnegie, 203.
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, builds first iron bridge, 115-17;
aids Union Pacific Railway, 163, 164;
aids Allegheny Valley Railway, 167-71;
aids Pennsylvania Steel Works, 185.
_See also_ Carnegie, Andrew, _Railroad experience_.
Pennsylvania Steel Works, the, 185.
Pessimist and optimist, story of, 323.
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, 167-70.
Philippines, the, annexation of, 358, 362-65.
Phillips, Col. William, 167, 168, 169.
Phipps, Henry, 31, 130;
advertises for work, 131, 132;
crony and partner of Thomas Carnegie, 132;
controversy over opening conservatories on Sunday, 132, 133;
European tour, 142;
in charge of the Lucy Furnace, 181, 182;
statement about Mr. Carnegie and his partners, 196, 197;
goes into the steel business, 201.
Phipps, John, 46;
killed, 76.
Pig iron, manufacture of, 178, 179;
importance of chemistry in, 181-84.
Pilot Knob mine, 183.
Piper, Col. John L., partner of Mr. Carnegie, 116, 117;
had a craze for horses, 118, 121;
attachment to Thomas Carnegie, 118, 119;
relations with James B. Eads, 120.
Pitcairn, Robert, division superintendent, Pennsylvania Railroad, 42,
44, 49, 66, 189.
Pittencrieff Glen, bought and given to Dunfermline, 286-89, 291.
Pittsburgh, in 1850, 39-41;
some of its leading men, 41;
in 1860, 93;
later development, 348.
Pittsburgh, Bank of, 194.
Pittsburgh Locomotive Works, 115.
Pittsburgh Theater, 46, 48, 49.
Political corruption, 109.
Predestination, doctrine of, 75.
Principals' Week, 272.
Pritchett, Dr. Henry S., president of the Carnegie Endowment for the
Advancement of Learning, 268.
Private pension fund, 279, 280.
_Problems of To-day_, quoted, 40, 217.
Protective tariffs, 146-48.
Prousser, Mr., chemist, 222.
Public speaking, 210.
Pullman, George M., 157, 159;
forms Pullman Palace Car Company, 160, 161;
anecdote of, 162;
becomes a director of the Union Pacific, 164.
Quality, the most important factor in success, 115, 122, 123.
Queen's Jubilee, the (June, 1887), 320, 321.
Quintana, Manuel, President of Argentina, 346.
Railroad Pension Fund, 280.
Rawlins, Gen. John A., and General Grant, 107, 108.
Recitation, value of, in education, 20.
Reed, Speaker Thomas B., 362.
Reid, James D., and Mr. Carnegie, 59 and _n._
Reid, General, of Keokuk, 154.
Republican Party, first national meeting, 68.
Riddle, Robert M., 81.
Ritchie, David, 139, 140.
Ritter, Governor, of Pennsylvania, anecdote of, 342.
Robinson, General, first white child born west of the Ohio River, 40.
Rockefeller, John D., 274.
Rogers, Henry H., 296.
Rolland School, 13.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 260;
and Elihu Root, 275;
John Morley on, 325;
rejects the Arbitration Treaty, 360, 361;
and the Philippines, 365.
Root, Elihu, 260, 286 _n._;
fund named for, at Hamilton College, 275;
"ablest of all our Secretaries of State," 275;
on Mr. Carnegie, 276;
and John Morley, 324.
Rosebery, Lord, presents Mr. Carnegie with the freedom of Edinburgh,
215;
relations with, 309, 310;
handicapped by being born a peer, 310, 311.
Ross, Dr. John, 269, 271;
aids in buying Pittencrieff Glen, 288, 289;
receives freedom of Dunfermline, 313.
_Round the World_, 205, 206, 208.
Sabbath observance, 52, 53, 133.
St. Andrews University, Mr. Carnegie elected Lord Rector, 271, 273;
confers doctor's degree on Benjamin Franklin and on his
great-granddaughter, 272, 273.
St. Louis Bridge, 155-57.
Salisbury, Lord, and the Behring Sea troubles, 353-55.
Sampson, ----, financial editor of the London _Times_, 156.
Schiffler, Mr., a partner of Mr. Carnegie in building iron bridges,
116, 117.
Schoenberger, Mr., president of the Exchange Bank, Pittsburgh, 192,
193.
Schurman, President Jacob G., 363.
Schwab, Charles M., 152, 254-56.
Scott, John, 186.
Scott, Thomas A., 63, 70-74, 77;
helps Carnegie to his first investment, 79;
made general superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 84;
breaks a strike, 84, 85;
made vice-president of the Company, 90;
Assistant Secretary of War, 99, 102;
colonel, 103;
returns to the railroad, 109;
tries to get contract for sleeping-cars on the Union Pacific, 158,
159;
becomes president of that road, 164;
first serious difference with Carnegie, 165;
president of the Texas Pacific Railroad, and then of the
Pennsylvania road, 172;
financially embarrassed, 173, 192;
break with Carnegie and premature death, 174.
Scott, Sir Walter, and Marjory Fleming, 20;
bust of, at Stirling, 157;
made a burgess of Dunfermline, 210.
Scott, Gen. Winfield, 102, 103.
Seneca Indians, early gatherers of oil, 138.
Sentiment, in the practical affairs of life, 253.
Seton, Ernest Thompson, and John Burroughs, 293.
Seward, William Henry, 102.
Shakespeare, quoted, 10, 214, 219, 255, 294, 297;
Mr. Carnegie's interest in, 48, 49.
Shaw, Henry W., _see_ Billings, Josh.
Shaw, Thomas (Lord Shaw), of Dunfermline, 269, 288, 289.
Sherman, Gen. W.T., 107.
Shiras, George, Jr., appointed to the Supreme Court, 353.
Siemens gas furnace, 136.
Singer, George, 225.
Skibo Castle, Scotland, 217, 272, 326.
Sleeping-car, invention of, 87;
on the Union Pacific Railway, 158-61.
Sliding scale of wages, solution of the capital and labor problem,
246, 247, 252.
Sloane, Mr. and Mrs., 29.
Smith, J.B., friend of John Bright, 11, 12.
Smith, Perry, anecdote of, 124.
Snobs, English, 301.
Spanish War, the, 361-65.
Speculation, 151, 153.
Spencer, Herbert, Mr. Carnegie's relations with, 333-37;
a good laugher, 333, 334;
opposed to militarism, 335;
banquet to, at Delmonico's, 336;
very conscientious, 337, 338;
his philosophy, 339;
on the gift of Carnegie Institute, 348, 349.
Spens, Sir Patrick, ballad of, 7, 367.
Spiegel, manufacture of, 220.
Stanley, Dean A.P., on Burns's theology, 271.
Stanton, Edwin M., 41, 275.
Stanwood, Edward, _James G. Blaine_ quoted, 345 _n._
Steel, the age of, 181-97;
King, 224, 225.
Steel Workers' Pension Fund, 281.
Steubenville, bridge at, over the Ohio River, 116, 117.
Stewart, D.A., freight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 94, 95;
joins Mr. Carnegie in manufacture of steel rails, 186.
Stewart, Rebecca, niece of Thomas A. Scott, 90.
Stokes, Major, chief counsel of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 81-83, 86.
Storey, Samuel, M.P., 330.
Storey farm, oil wells on, 138, 139 _n._
Straus, Isidor, 196.
Straus, Oscar S., and the National Civic Federation, 234, 235.
Strikes: on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 84, 85;
at Homestead, 228-39;
at the steel-rail works, 240, 243.
Sturgis, Russell, 168.
Success, true road to, 176, 177.
Sun City Forge Company, 115 _n._
Superior Rail Mill and Blast Furnaces, 115.
Surplus, the law of the, 227.
Swedenborgianism, 22, 50, 51.
_Sweet By and By, The_, 341, 342.
Taft, William H., and the Philippines, 363, 365.
Tariff, protective, 146-48.
Taylor, Charles, president of the Hero Fund, 266, 267.
Taylor, Joseph, 58.
Taylor Hall at Lehigh University, 266.
Teaching, a meanly paid profession, 268.
Temple of Peace, at The Hague, 284, 285.
Tennant, Sir Charles, President of the Scotland Steel Company, 356,
357.
Texas, story about, 334.
Texas Pacific Railway, 172 _n._, 173.
Thaw, William, vice-president of the Fort Wayne Railroad, 190.
Thayer, William Roscoe, _Life and Letters of John Hay_, quoted,
216, 358, 359.
Thomas, Gen. George H., 107.
Thompson, Moses, 223.
Thomson, John Edgar, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 72;
an evidence of his fairness, 117;
offers Mr. Carnegie promotion, 140;
shows confidence in him, 163;
steel mills named for, 188, 189;
financially embarrassed, 192.
Tower, Charlemagne, Ambassador to Germany, 366, 368.
Trent affair, the, 102.
Trifles, importance of, 36, 124, 159, 248.
_Triumphant Democracy_, published, 309;
origin, 330-32.
Troubles, most of them imaginary, 162.
Tuskegee Institute, 276.
Twain, Mark, letter from, 294, 295;
man and hero, 296;
devotion to his wife, 297.
Union Iron Mills, 133, 134, 176;
very profitable, 198.
Union Pacific Railway, sleeping-cars on, 159-61;
Mr. Carnegie's connection with, 162-65.
"Unitawrian," prejudice against, 12.
Vanderlip, Frank A., 268.
Vandevort, Benjamin, 95.
Vandevort, John W., 95;
Mr. Carnegie's closest companion, 142;
accompanies him around the world, 204.
Van Dyke, Prof. John C., on the Homestead strike, 235-37, 239.
Wagner, Mr., Carnegie's interest in, 49, 50.
Walker, Baillie, 3.
Wallace, William, 16, 17, 367.
War, breeds war, 16;
must be abolished, 274, 283, 284;
"ferocious and futile folly," 358.
Washington, Booker T., declines gift to himself, 276, 277.
Waterways, inland, improvement of, 342.
Webster Literary Society, 61.
Wellesley College, Cleveland Library at, 275.
Western Reserve University, Hanna Chair at, 275.
White, Andrew D., 23, 150;
and the Hague Conference, 284.
White, Henry, 358.
Whitfield, Louise, 213, 214.