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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

CHAPTER V
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I want to get out of a mere office life.
Please go and tell him so." The result was I was engaged February 1, 1853, at a salary of thirty-five dollars a month as Mr.Scott's clerk and operator.

A raise in wages from twenty-five to thirty-five dollars per month was the greatest I had ever known.

The public telegraph line was temporarily put into Mr.Scott's office at the outer depot and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was given permission to use the wire at seasons when such use would not interfere with the general public business, until their own line, then being built, was completed..


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