Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-20
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
MADE BY TRUSTEES
High Aims and S1O,OOO,OOO to Work
With 49, Notable List Of Men
Who Will Direct Important
Work.

Washington. Jan. 9.-Omcial ap-
nouncement was made today OF the
board of trustees of the Carnegie In
stitution, which has been incorporated
| here under the $lO,OOO,OOG gift Of An.
drew Carnegie. The only indication
as TO the form of the gift Is that II will
| b. in IS per cent bonds. This is re.
ferred to in a single sentence, as fol.
lows: ut is the purpose of Mr. Car
negie to transfer SlO,UO0uO0 in per
cent bonds to the board of trustees
| for the purposes above mentioned
The announcement was made in the
! form of statement given out by
| Charles ID. WalCott secretary Of the
I corporation, in accordance with the
expressed wish of Mr.. Carnegie. The
statement says:
In the development of his plans Mr..
! Carnegie has consulted with a number
OF gentlemen in different parts OF the
country, including the heads OF uniyer.
stiles and other scientific institutions,
and particularly with Abram 5. Hew-
| itt Dr. Daniel G. Gilman, DR.. John s.
| Billings, Dr.. Charles ID. NalCott and
Carroll d. Wright"
The board of trustees elected by the
| !ncorporators to carry out the purpose
Of the institution as indicated are:
| EX.officio, the President of the Unit
ed States, the President of the United
States Senate, the Speaker of the
| House of Representatives, the Score.
! tary of the Smithsonian Institution.
| the president of the National Acad'
envy OF Sciences, Grover Cleveland,
| New Jersey; John $. Billings, New
| York; William n. Frew, Pennsylva-
MIA; Lyman J. Gage, Illinois; Daniel
| {. Gilman, Maryland; John Hay, Dis
! tTict of Columbia; Abram S. Hewitt,
| New Jersey; Henry l.. Higginson, Mas
sachusetts; Henry hitchcock, Mis-
souri,: Charles l.. Hutchinson, Illinois (;
William Lindsay Kentucky; Seth Low
| New York Wayne MacVeagh, Penn
sylvania; ID. o. Mills, California; S.
Weir Mitchell. Pennsylvania; W. W.
Morrow, California; Elihu Root, New
York: John c. SpOoner, Wisconsin
Andrew d. White, New York; Edward
u. White, Louisiana: Charles D. Wal
colt, District of Columbia Carroll D
Wright, District OF Columbia.
The board of trustees will meet &c
organize and elect officers In the office
Of Secretary of State January 10Th
Carnegic's purpose as stated by him
self, in requesting the various trustees
to become members Of the board, Is as
follows:
II is purpOsCd to found in the city o.
Washington in the spirit of Washing
ton, an institution which with tho co
operation Of institutions now or here
after established there or elsewher,
shall In the broadcast and most liberia
manner encourage investigation, re
search and discovery; encourage tn,
application of knowledge to the i'm
provement of mankind; provide sucl
buildings. laboratories, books and ap
paratus as may be needed, and affort
instruction of an advanced character
to students whenever and whereve
found, inside or outside of schools
properly qualified to profit thereby.
Among its aims are these: First
To increase the efficiency in the uni
versities and other institutions O
learning throughout the country. b,
utilizing and adding to their eXistinl
facilities and by aiding teachers in the
various institutions for experimental
and other work In these institutions a,
far as may be advisable.
"SeCond-TO discover the exception
al man in every department OF study
whenever and wherever found anC
enable him by financial aid to make
the work for which he seems designed
his life work
Third-TO promote original research
paying great attention thereto, as be
ing one of the chief purposes OF thi!
institution.
Fourth-TO increase facilities 70,
high education.
Fifth-To enable such students al
may find Washington the best poin
for their special studies to avail them
selves of such advantages as may BIZ
open to them in the museums, libra
ries, laboratories. observaIories. me
teorologIcal piscatorial and forestry
schools and kindred institutions of tho
several departments of the Govern
ment.
Sixth-To insure the prompt publ
cation and distribution of the results
of scientific investigation, a field con
sidered to be highly important.
These and kindred objects may b'
attained by providing the ncCessar!
apparatus for experimental work, b!
employing able teachers from the va
rious institutions in Washington o.
elsewhere and by enabling men fltteC
for special work to devote themselvei
to IL, through salaries, fellowships O
scholarships, or through salaries will
or without pensions in old age, o
through aid In other forms to sucl
men to continue their special work a
seats OF learning throughout tn