Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-10
TRUSTEES ELECTED.
Men Who Will Take Charge of Car
 negie Institution.

negie Institution.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. - Official announcement has been made of the board of trustees of the Carnegie insti- tuition, which hasbeen incorporated here under the ten million dollar gift of An drew Carnegie. The only indication as to the form of the gift is that it will be i'll "5 per cent bonds." This is referred to in single sentence, as follows:
 ''It is the purpose of Mir. Carnegie to transfer S1o,000,000 in per cent bonds to the board of trustees for the pur- poses above mentioned"
 The board of trustees elected by the incorporators to carry out the pur- poses of the institution as indicated are as follows:
 The president of the United States, the president of the United States sen ate, the speaker of the house of repre- sentatives, the secnetary of the Smith sonian institution the president of the National Academy of Sciences, Grover Cleveland of New Jersey, John s. Bill lings of New York, William N. Frew of Pennsylvania, Lyman J. Gage of H. linois, Daniel c. Gilman of Maryland, John Hay of the District of Columbia, Abram $. Hewitt of New York Henry l.. Higginson of Massachusetts, Henry Hitchcock of Missouri, Charles l.. Hutchinson of Illinois, William Lind say of Kentucky, Seth Low of New York, Wayne Macveagh of Pennsylva- nia, D. O. Mills of California, S. Weir Mitchell of Pennsylvania, w. w. Mor- 1fT Ta1s s, 1aN York, John c. Spooner of Wisconsin, Andrew D. White of New York, Ed ward D. White of Louisiana, Charles D. Walcott of the District of Columbia and Carroll D. Wright of the District of Columbia.
 The board of trustees will meet to or ganiZe and elect officers in the office of the secretary of state on Jan. 20. Mir. Carnegie's purpose, as stated by himself in requesting the various trus- tees to become members of the board, is as follows:
 Tt is proposed to found in the city of Washington, in the spirit of Wash ington, an institution which, with the cooperation of institutions now or hereafter established there or else
 
 ! liberal manner encourage investiga- ton, research and discovery, encourage the application of knowledge to the 1 improvement of mankind, provide such i buildings, laboratories, books and ap- paPatus as may be needed and afford instruction of an advanced character to students whenever and wherever ] found, inside or outside of schools, properly qualified to profit thereby.
 Among it's aims are these: l "First-To increase the efficiency of { the universities and other institutions of learning throughout the country by utilizing and adding to their existing 4 facilities and by aiding teachers in the 1 various institutions for experimental and other work on these institutions as far as may be advisable. | "Second.-To discover the exception al man in every department of study. whenever and wherever found, and enable him by financial aid to make the work for which he seems specially l designed his life work.
 "Third.-To promote original re- search, paying great attention thereto, as being one of the chief purposes of ! this institution.
 "Fourth.-To increase facilities for I higher education.
 "Fifth.-To enable such students as may find Washington the best point for their special studies to avail them selves of such advantages as may be open to them in the museums libpa- ries, laboratories, observatory, meteor ological, piscieultural and forestry schools and kindred institutions of the several departments of the govern ment.
 'sixth.-To insure the prompt publi- | cation and distribution of the results of scientific Investigation, field con- sidered to be highly important.
 "These and kindred objects may be attained by providing the necessary apparatus for experimental work, by l employing able teachers from the va rious institutions in Washington or elsewhere and by enabling men fitted for special work to devote themselves to 1t through salaried fellowships or scholarships or through salaries, with pr without pensions in old age, or through aid in other forms to such men as continue their special work at seats of learning throughout the world"