He had quarreled with his playmate and lifelong partner, Henry Phipps, and was in the worst possible business and personal relations with Frick.

He had no son to carry on his work.

He had become greatly interested in his philanthropies, and he had declared that the man who died rich died disgraced.

Moreover, new influences were rising in the steel trade with which Carnegie had little sympathy.

Its national capital seemed to be shifting from Pittsburgh to Wall Street.