Carnegie’s Gift to Employees.
A. YEAR'S SALARY
London, July Id. Andbew Carnegie has just signalized his retirement from business by presenting a year’s pay to all the employees at his Skibo estate, they have the option of taking the money or leaving it in trust and getting 0 per cent, interest on it. A deputation of employees, headed by Factor Ilardie, presented Mr Carnegie with an address of thanks for his munificence. In reply Mr Carnegie said :
“ I am glad to have an opportunity of expressing the great satisfaction which myself and Mrs Carnegie take in our estate staff, composed as it is of men who not only know their work and do it, but who are of irreproachable character.” Mrs Carnegie said :
Wc are furnishing our castle with man articles of value, but your address i more to us than any of these, and wi have a suitable place on the walls of oi house.”
Hr Sage Mackay, of New York, who is staying at the castle, referring to Mr Carnegie’s homo life, says : “ Mr Carnegie is fond of remarking of the oft-quoted saying ‘Heaven is our home,' that it should bo ‘ Home is our Heaven,’ and Mr Carnegie’s home life is the nearest approach to heaven I know.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 206, 6 September 1901, Page 4
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