The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-30
CARNEGIE MAY DIE POOR.
Has Given Away Nearly 100000
600 to Aid Educational Projects.

Has Given Away Nearly 100000
600 to Aid Educational Projects.
In his effort to avoid the ignominy of
dying rich, Andrew Carnegie has given
away nearly 500 600. 600. The amount Of
his known beneneiaries is S99. 912. 223,
and it isn't at all unlikely that other
donations unrecorded would amount to
the $4,000. 900 necessary to bring the
total up to the 500. 600 mark.
Considering the 500, 900 600 which in
round figures he has already given
away. there are comparatively few peo-
pie in Chicago who could afford to pay
a teller at So a day of eight hours 10.
count his money in s. bills and do them
up in packages Of $500 each. To pick
up these bills as they might come into
the teller's window, count them in or
der. place them in order place them and
pin into packages of 800 each would
require the time Of q teller day after
day for a full working year. At this
he would be unable to lose a moment
from his work his wrappers WouId need
to be always at his fingers ends, and
he could lose no time in dipping his
pen into the ink from which he would
mark his initials and the date of the
wrapping up of the bills
Just to that extent that caretuiness
would need to be exercised to detect
counterfeits or as worn and mutilated
bills would need to be separated ana
put aside for redemption, this Work
of counting S100,000eo0 would be pro-
longed.
Reducing this enormous sum to dollar
bills and laying them end to end, they
would make ribbon reaching by way
of Suez from Chicago to Manila Iney
might be laid in ribbons IN the center
Of the tracks of every trancoptinentai
railway between New York and san
Francisco and other Pacific ports. These
same bills. pasted i1to square, would
carpet 3S5 acres Of ground; or more man
half Of government section, the strip
of territory being one mile long ana
more than half a mile wide.
In silver dollars stacking" ten to the
inch. these $l00, 0Oo, Geo coins woula Plis
in a single column 100 miles into the
air In cube formation, allowing Tor
each coin at the base to touch rims
with the others. these coins would form
a pile nearly fourteen feet square at the
base ana 100 feet high. Such pile
would be larger by far than most Of the
library buildings which Mr. Carnegie
has provided for
Looking over the distribution of his
wealth, which in mere physical measure
presents such figures as these. it viii
impress many who are familiar with
Mr.. Carnegies friendHness TO nbrarleS
to know that nearly one third OF the
total amounts Of his gifts has been IN
behalf of educational institutions Of
various orders In detail the report Of
his gifts shows:
To Scotch university .--...-.....-. $1,000 goo
To Carengie National university. le.v93vtl
To Polytechnic school .-...-.-...... Z.yyittl
To miscellaneous schools -.----.-.- 2,o945i9
Total ........ ......-............... seq. $3.50
To libraries, to peace temple at
The Hague and to minor pur-
poses .....-.. 81. 81. %
Grand total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SEQ. 9l3 =
In the distribution of this wealth the
United States has come in for much the
larger part Of it, more than two-thirds Ct
it remaining in this country, only Rhode
Island. Delaware South Carolina MissIs-
sippi Arkansas and Idaho not proftung III
the donations in one way on another
As indicating Mr. Carnegies love Tor
gifts to Scotland have been $lfi15. ta3
while Pittsburg and Allegheny as twin
cities have received Sla.l 600 Little r
Mr.. Carnegie's money has gone to charity
of any kind. He is not a believer in con-
tributins toward the support Of those
unable to support themselves To help
those who are making brave efforts 70
help them selves to higher places IN lie
has been his desire
Ia this work in the last year Mr. Car
negie has given away more money than
in any twelvemonth since he began ms
self-imposed campaign against the posi-
bilitics Of diving rich. On May A. 1902. the
Chicago Tribune made a computation OF
the amount of money given to date snow
ing that s67.2l2.S23 had been given away.
This gives a total for the last year ef
So Ge9Sf0-a stupendous fortune In ltselI-
st. Paul Globe.