Sunday Washington globe., 1902-01-12

Wednesday, January 10Th, the Board of
Trustees elected by the incorporators of
the Carnegie Institution will meet in this
city for organization and the election of
officers.
The chief aims sought in the establish
ment of the Carnegie institution, as stated
by Mr.. Carnegie himself, are;
First-To increase the efficiency of the
universities and other institutions Of learn
ing throughout the country by utilizing and
adding to their existing facilities, and by
aiding teachers in the various institutions
for experimental and other work in these
institutions as far as may be advisable.
Second-To discover the exceptional man
in every department of study whenever
and wherever found, and enable him by f.
nancial aid to make the work for which he
seems specially designed his life work.
Third-To promote original research, pay
ing great attention thereto as being one of
the chief purposes of this institution
Fourth-To increase facilities for higher
education.
Fifth-To enable such students as may
find Washington the best point for their
special studies to avail themselves of such
advantages as may be open to them in the
museums, libraries. laboratories, observa-
tory, meteorological, piscicultural and
forestry school, and kindred institutions of
the several departments of the Government.
Sixth-To ensure the prompt publication
and distribution of the results of scientific
investigation a field considered to be highly
important
Thus the masses will see at a glance how
much this ten million dollar gift is going to
benefit them. And for fear that there
should be any doubt as to whom the gift is
intended to benefit the following named
honest working men have been selected as
trustees by the incorporatOrs:
Trustees Eek -oiicio - The President of
the United States.
The President of the United States Sen.
ate.
The Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives.
The Secretary OF the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition.
The President of the National Academy
of Sciences.
Grover Cleveland, New Jersey.
John S. Billings, New York.
William N. Frew, Pennsylvania
Lyman J. Gage, Illinois.
Daniel c. Gilman, Maryland.
John HAY, District Of Columbia
Abram s. Hewitt New Jersey
Henry l.. Higginson, Massachusetts,.
Henry Hitchcock, Missouri.
Charles L. Hutchinson, Illinois.
William Lindsay, Kentucky.
Seth Low, New York.
Wayne MacVeegh, Pennsylvania.
d. q. Mills, California.
S. Weir Mitchell, Pennsylvania
w. w Morrow, California.
Elhu Root, New York
John c. Spooner, Wisconsin.
Andrew d. White, New York.
Edward d. White, Louisiana.
Charles D. Walcott, District of Columbia.
Carroll d. Wright, District of Columbia.
And here is Miss Alice T. Sorensons
grateful tribute to Mr.. Carnegie in behalf Of
the poor for whom he has toiled all his life
to reduce them to slavery
There's a scent on the books of dead mems
bones,
And a splatter Of blood over all;
There's rough ragged hole in each leaf
you turn,
Like the wound from rifemans ball
There's the last gasp Of men shot down at
| command
! OF this generous and gracious man;
/ There's the blood and the groan, the grief
| and the shame
| You picture it, and who can.
There's a picture of Homestead--will we
ever forget
How those brave, ragged men were de-
fenselessly slain
Were slaughtered like beasts, like poor
hunted beasts,
By Carnegie's will and for Carnegie gain
Will we ever forget how the mothers and
wives
In their rags and their woe knelt down in
the dust,
And clasped their dear dead then, just as
they fell
By rifieman's ball or the bayone's thrusl2
Will we ever forget how the press Of the
land
Made light of the slaughter by saying,
THE dead
Were foreign born men who, in impudence,
For the right to be living and earning their
bread2"
Will we ever forget how in sweatshop and
mine,
The fathers and mothers and children are
slain2
How virtue is bartered and childhood is
crushed
By Carnegie's will and for Carnegie's
gain2
How the skeleton babes, at the milkless
breast,
Give their poor little lives to his greedf
How the girls on the street and the mothers
in rags
Are rejecting his generous (7) deedf
And this is his gift all shining with blood
The gift that he proifers with arrogant
hand;
This is his peuance for murder and lust
This is his jest to the slaves Of the land.
But the books are not dumb; they have elo
quent tongues
To tell you their pitiful story
How the bodies and souls Of women anC
Have built him his temple Of glory
How the walls are Of bones cemented viii
blood,
And wet with the dropping Of tears