pplauding
vigorously. It was an epoch, but then Peter Cooper was an epoch-making
man. Cooper Union is now conducted along the identical lines laid out by
its founder.

It is a Free University, dedicated to the People. It has a yearly
enrolment of over thirty-five hundred pupils. Only three Universities in
America surpass it in numbers. Its courses are designed to cover the
needs of practical, busy people. Art, architecture, engineering,
business and chemistry are its principal features. Its fine reading-room
and library have a yearly attendance of a million visitors. The great
hall is used almost every night in the year. And just remember that this
has continued for fifty years.

When the building was put up, there were no passenger-elevators in New
York, or elsewhere. Peter Cooper's mechanical mind saw that higher
buildings would demand mechanical lifts, and so he provided a special
elevator-shaft. He saw his prophecy come true, and there is now an
elevator in the place he provided. The demand now upon the building
overtaxes its capacity.

The influx of foreign population in New York City makes the needs of
Cooper Union even more imperative than they were fifty years ago. So
additional buildings are now under way, and with increased funds from
various worthy and noble people, Cooper Union is taking a new lease of
life and usefulness. And into all the work there goes the unselfish
devotion, the patience and the untiring spirit of Peter Cooper,
apprentice, mechanic, inventor, businessman, financier, philosopher and
friend of humanity.

ANDREW CARNEGIE

I congratulate poor young men upon being born to that ancient and
honorable degree which renders it necessary that they should devote
themselves to hard work.

--_Andrew Carnegie_

[Illustration: ANDREW CARNEGIE]

The fact that Andrew Carnegie is a Scotsman has, so far as I know, never
been refuted nor denied. Scotland is a wonderful country in which to
slip the human product. Then when this product is transplanted to a more
sunshiny soil we sometimes get a world-beater.

Scotland is a good country to be born in; and it is a good country to
get out of; and at times it may be a good country to go back to.

I once attended a dinner given to James Barrie in London. One of the
speakers sprung the usual joke about how when the Scotch leave Scotland
they never go back. When Barrie arose to repl