Carnegie's - HOME OF THE LEGENDARY LADIES NIGHT! Wednesdays FREE Champagne all night for all ladies. The only bar in HK where you can actually dance ON the bar!
Yes, this is all true and what is more they were enthusiastic sponsors for some of the Charity nights at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club during the Clipper visit in 2003.
Although getting the converted T-shirt, what I did not know was why it was called Carnegies read on!
The chain of bars around Asia is named after the famous Scot, Andrew Carnegie. (1835 – 1919). A major and widely respected philanthropist. He is known for having built one of the most powerful and influential corporations in United States history, and, later in his life, giving away most of his riches to fund the establishment of many libraries, schools, and universities in Scotland, America and worldwide.
Carnegie, a poor boy with fierce ambition, a pleasant personality, and devoted to both hard work and self improvement, started as a telegrapher. By the 1860s he had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, as well as bridges and oil derricks, and built a fortune as a bond salesman raising money in Europe for American enterprises. In the 1870s he founded the Carnegie Steel Company, a step which cemented his name as one of the “Captains of Industry”. By the 1890s it was the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world. He sold it in 1901 and devoted the remainder of his life to large scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, and scientific research
With grateful acknowledgement to Wikipedia
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