ie_, quoted, 282 _n._

Allegheny City, the Carnegies in, 30, 31, 34;
public library and hall, 259.

Allegheny Valley Railway, bonds marketed by Mr. Carnegie, 167-71.

Allison, Senator W.B., 124, 125.

Altoona, beginnings of, 66.

_American Four-in-Hand in Britain, An_, Mr. Carnegie's first book, 6;
quoted, 27, 318 _n._;
published, 212, 322.

Anderson, Col. James, and his library, 45-47.

Arnold, Edwin, gives Mr. Carnegie the MS. of _The Light of Asia_, 207.

Arnold, Matthew, quoted, 206, 207, 302;
visits Mr. Carnegie, 216, 299, 301;
a charming man, 298;
seriously religious, 299;
as a lecturer, 299, 300;
and Henry Ward Beecher, 300;
on Shakespeare, 302;
and Josh Billings, 303-05;
in Chicago, 305, 306;
memorial to, 308.

Baldwin, William H., 277.

Balfour, Prime Minister, 269-71;
as a philosopher, 323, 324.

Balfour of Burleigh, Lord, and Trust for the Universities of
Scotland, 269, 270, 272.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Mr. Carnegie's relations with, 125-29.

Baring Brother, dealings with, 168, 169.

Barryman, Robert, an ideal Tom Bowling, 28, 29.

Bates, David Homer, quoted, 45, 46, 100.

Beecher, Henry Ward, and Matthew Arnold, 300;
and Robert G. Ingersoll, 300, 301;
on Herbert Spencer, 336, 337.

Behring Sea question, 350, 353-55.

Bessemer steel process, revolutionized steel manufacture, 184, 185,
229.

Billings, Dr. J.S., of the New York Public Libraries, 259;
director of the Carnegie Institution, 260.

Billings, Josh, 295;
and Matthew Arnold, 303-05;
anecdotes, 304, 305.

Bismarck, Prince, disturbs the financial world, 169.

Black, William, 298.

Blaine, James G., visits Mr. Carnegie, 216;
and Mr. Gladstone, 320, 321, 328;
a good story-teller, 341-43, 357;
his Yorktown address, 341;
at Cluny Castle, 344;
misses the Presidency, 345;
as Secretary of State, 345, 352-56;
at the Pan-American Congress, 346.

Bliss, Cornelius N., 363.

Borntraeger, William, 136;
put in charge of the Union Iron Mills, 198;
anecdotes of, 199-201.

Botta, Professor and Madame, 150.

Braddock's Cooeperative Society, 250.

Bridge-building, of iron, 115-29;
at Steubenville, 116, 117;
at Keokuk, Iowa, 154;
at St. Louis, 155.

Bright, John, 11;
and George Peabody, 282.

British Iron and Steel Institute, 178, 180.

Brooks, David, manager of the Pittsburgh telegraph office, 36-38,
57-59.

Brown University, John Hay Lib