his philosophy of life, 206, 207; Dunfermline confers the freedom of the town, 210; coaching in Great Britain, 211, 212; dangerously ill, 212, 213; death of his mother and brother, 212, 213; courtship, 213, 214; marriage, 215; presented with the freedom of Edinburgh, 215; birth of his daughter, 217; buys Skibo Castle, 217; manufactures spiegel and ferro-manganese, 220, 221; buys mines, 221-23; acquires the Frick Coke Company, 222; buys the Homestead steel mills, 225; progress between 1888 and 1897, 226; the Homestead strike, 228-33; succeeds Mark Hanna on executive committee of the National Civic
  Federation, 234;
incident of Burgomaster McLuckie, 235-39; some labor disputes, 240-54; dealing with a mill committee, 241, 242; breaking a strike, 243-46; a sliding scale of wages, 244-47; beating a bully, 248; settling differences by conference, 249, 250, 252; workmen’s savings, 251.

  Period of distribution:
  Carnegie Steel Company sells out to United States Steel Corporation,
    255, 256;
  Andrew Carnegie Relief Fund established for men in the mills, 256,
    257, 281;
  libraries built, 259;
  Carnegie Institution founded, 259-61;
  hero funds established for several countries, 262-67;
  pension fund for aged professors, 268-71;
  trustee of Cornell University, 268;
  Lord Rector of St. Andrews, 271-73;
  aid to American colleges, 274, 275, 277 n.;
  connection with Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes, 276, 277;
  gives organs to many churches, 278, 279;
  private pension fund, 279, 280;
  Railroad Pension Fund, 280;
  early interested in peace movements, 282, 283;
  on a League of Nations, 284 n.;
  provides funds for Temple of Peace at The Hague, 284, 285;
  president of the Peace Society of New York, 285, 286;
  decorated by several governments, 286;
  buys Pittencrieff Glen and gives it to Dunfermline, 286-90;
  friendship with Earl Grey, 290;
  other trusts established, 290 n.;
  dinners of the Carnegie Veteran Association, 291, 292;
  the Literary Dinner, 292, 293;
  relations with Mark Twain, 294-97;
  with Matthew Arnold, 298-308;
  with Josh Billings, 302-05;
  first meets Mr. Gladstone, 309, 330, 331;
  estimate of Lord Rosebery, 309-11;
  his own name often misspelled, 310;
  attachment to Harcourt and Campbell-Bannerman, 312;
  and the Earl of Elgin, 313, 314;
  his Freedom-getting career, 314, 316;
  opinion on British municipal government, 314-17;
  visits Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden, 318, 319, 328, 329;
  incident of the Queen’s Jubilee, 320, 321;
  relations with J.G.  Blaine, 320, 321, 328, 341-46;
  friendship with John Morley, 322-28;
  estimate of Elihu Root, 324;
  buys Lord Acton’s library, 325;
  on Irish Home Rule, 327;
  attempts newspaper campaign of political progress, 330;
  writes Triumphant Democracy, 330-32;