Most of when we hear the name Carnegie, we most often think "Libraries" and we have one in Snohomish, WA that is being given a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in addition to a grant from the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation, a grant total of $5,000 which will help toward preserving our old library that is in need of repair and preservation. Little do we know a great deal about Andrew Carnegie who amassed a fortune of half billion $ mostly from s t e e l. He lived from 1835 - 1919 and he was a philanthropost, extraordinaire, which is why we tie his name with librarys. Since, I am giving a talk on The Lost Art of Telegraphy - not a history really but rather my own perspective of the subject in Snohomish. I did find by way of Yahoo, and Google, that Andrew Carnegie at one time was a train dispatcher, i.e. a telegrapher for the Pennsylvania Railroad (now Penn Central) in Pittsburgh. At first he was a clerk, then as he worked his way up he became dispatcher. In fact he worked up to division manager by 1859 at the age of 24yrs old ! Rather than dwell any further on his history of achievements, I wanted to bring out the fact that he as a telegraphic dispatcher saw the great need for telegraphic communications among the military and he was very influential in priming the minds back then of the value of communications via telegraphy resulting in a very early form of what became a signal corps. Just though you might be interested in knowing. Carroll in Snohomish * * * 30 * * *