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 Library at, 275.
Bruce, King Robert, 18, 367.
Bryan, William J., and the treaty with Spain, 364.
Bull Run, battle of, 100.
Buelow, Prince von, 368, 370.
Burns, Robert, quoted, 3, 13, 33, 307, 313;
Dean Stanley on, 271;
rules of conduct, 271, 272.
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