Evening star., 1902-02-01
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION
PRESIDENT GILMAN SPEAKS OF THE
LARGE CORRESPONDENCE.
Secretary walcott Says Nothing Car
BE Done Until This Is Thorough
ly Digested.

President Daniel c. Gilman of the Car
negie Institution when seen at his home
in Baltimore yesterday said that the de-
tails of the plans for the institutions are yet
so incomplete that he was unable to state
anything definite concerning them. Con-
tinuing DR.. Gilman said:
1.-The adjournment Of the trustees on
Thursday in Washington was followed by a
meeting of the executive committee. at
which various propositions relative to the
future and scope of the institution were dis
cussed, but we arrived at nothing which
can yet be announced for publication. l
would have liked to talk more freely before
this. but circumstances did not permit and
from now on shall be glad to give any in
formation / can.
"A vast deal of correspondence work has
to be done before we can accomplish def
mite results. and l am now spending 1'y
time writing answers to queries received
from educators and men of science In all
parts Of the country, besides number of
letters from prominent men in Europe.
Until this correspondence has been care
fully considered and digested it will be i'm
possible to announce our future policy
Dr. Gilman gave out the following official
statement:
After the trustees of the Carnegie Insti-
tuition adjourned yesterday the executive
committee held an important session and a
second session in the afternoon. 1t ap-
peared at these meetings that a very large
number of communications had been ad-
dressed to individual members of the board
some of them of slight Importance and
others requiring great deal of conSidera-
ton
THE committee decided that 1t would be
essential at an early date to confer with
leading men of science in every part of the
country with respect to the development of
the Carnegie Institution Letters will
therefore be addressed to the heads of col
leges. universities and technical schools,
and also to persons not connected with in
st1tutfonS, who have won distinction in va
rfous departments of knowledge.
When their replies are received and COL
lated they VIII be considered by the ex-
ecutive committee, together with inferma-
ton received from other sources, and thus
gradually plans will be developed for car
rying out the intentions of the founder 1t
VIII certainly be some weeks and 1t may
De some months, before any formal an
nouncement can be made. Indeed, the
trustees do not expect that a great deal
can be done before these suggestions of
the executive committee are presented to
them. 1t must also be borne in mind that,
although the gift is made, there is no in
come yet received from it,
Secretary WaIcott Talks.
DR.. Charles D. Walcott, who was recent
ly chosen secretary of the Carnegie Insti-
tuition said to an Evening Star reporter
today:
Il have nothing to add to DR.. Gillman's
statement. l only know that the work of
getting the institution into shape must be
necessarily slow. We are having the house
at the corner of 18th and K streets re-
paired for the executive offices, and expect
to shortly occupy it.
II cannot say when the next meeting of
the board of trustees will be held, as it is
subject to the call of the chairman. The
board Is composed Of men of prominence,
many of whom live at distance, and they
will not be called together until there is
something definite to consider.
II was more than pleased at the last
meeting continued DR.. Walcott, ION &C
count of the enthusiasm displayed by those
present, both as to the plans and purposes
Of the new institution.
Then, again. there was a unanimity III
the manner of acceptances to act upon the
portant office. Just why former President
Cleveland declined I cannot say, as 1 have
not seen his letter on the subject. 1t is
now In New York, and will be in my pos
session In few days. l am inclined to
think Mr.. Cleveland's health would not per.
init him to serve on the board of. trust tees
as he feared that he could not give the
matter attention it deserved.
THE former President is a most conscien.
tious man. and undoubtedly would not ac-
cept any position to which he could not
give his full attention. 1t has been q
maxim that he established early in life, and
he has followed 1t ever since.
THE Carnegie Institution Is in my opin.
ion,' concluded DR.. Wolcott, "the greatest
educational project that has been advanced
or attempted In this generation