Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from More Busy Days: Dr. Andrew Carnegie at Dingwall, Tain, Kilmarnock, Govan, Waterford, Limerick, Cork, Barrow in 1903
Within the building now being erected here, when we have got it equipped with first-class literature, we and our successors can readily become familiar with the thoughts and with the deeds of the intellectual giants of the past and of the present. We may thus hope that incalculable good will accrue to many here and beyond our town through our prospective Carnegie Public Library. (cheers) We have then the best of reasons to rejoice at the prospect of a library and to hail it with the greatest possible pleasure. We have indeed the best of reasons to feel intensely grateful to the generous donor. (cheers) Fellow-citizens, I feel sure I also express your Views, as I do my own, when I say that we strongly feel we are very specially honored in having Mrs. Carnegie come here today to lay its foundation stone. (loud cheers.) I know that I can on your behalf, as I do for myself, assure Dr. Carnegie and Mrs. Carnegie that we very specially ap preciate this signal honor. (cheers) Provost Macrae, addressing Mrs. Carnegie, said: I have the pleasure and honor of handing you this sil ver trowel and mallet with which you will kindly fa vor us in laying this foundation stone.
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