The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-01

seven libraries, in thirteen States, re- ceived these offers. beside three in Scot | land. He also gave an unnamed sum py | which 1t was possible to have represen- tative American librarians in charge of | the American Library Association exhibit in Paris The list of libraries which he offered to build or help in 1900 is as fol- lows:
 Alabama-Tuskegee Institute Libra ry S20,000
 Illinois-Pekin. $10000. Indiana-Muncie Workingmen's Li- brary. $500.
 Iowa-Davenport. S5e.OO0: ottumwa, O,Ooo: Dubuque, $5o,0o0; Fort Dodge | $3O.O00
 Kansas-Emporia College, $5o,Ooo; Leavenworth. s25,OOo. Kentucky--Covingto S40.0o0. Massachusetts-Bost Public Libra ry, S100 a year for Galatea collection relating to women.
 Michigan-Ironwood, $l2.O00. Mfssouri-Chillicothe $25,000. | New Jersey-East Orange. $50,O0o. Pennsylvania-Pitts Carnegie Library, s10,0O0; Coal Center $5o,0o0; York, $50 00O; Blairsville (not accept ed), $15,o00; Bradford, S25,000; Grove 1 City. $3O, 900; Charters Township, $l,- quo; Huntingdon, 10000; Williamsburg | $50 900.
 Characterization S50,090. l Texas-Houston. $5o,0OO; San An tonic, $5o.0OO; Waco, $1.00o. Scotland-Lockerby, S10,0OO; Green ock, $25. .00O; Hawick $50,000. | A corrected recapitulation Of MT Carnegie's gifts down to date is as fol- lows: United States $63,2S2,773; Scot land, s17.729,250; Holland, $l,75O.oOo' England and Wales. $1,334,500; Cana da, S1,106. 800; Ireland. S355,500; Cuba | s252.000. Total SS5.S10.523. The public is familiar with Mir. Car negie's recent gift of s5,ooo.OOo with
 which to reward heroes who distin- ] guish themselves by life-saving.
 MT. Carnegie aims to bestow the | surplus" of bis wealth on enterprises ! for the good of the masses of his Tel
 low men; and the public library ap- i peals to him as an exceedingly good | means to that end. His appreciation | of the good done by libraries was con ceived long ago. To tell how 1t came into being Is to recall an interesting | incident of his early life. When MT | Carnegie was poor boy in Pittsburg | earning s1. 20 a week as a bobbln-boy
 an iron manufacturer named Colone Anderson (whose name MT. Carnegie | says that he can never pronounce without feelings of devotional grati'
 tude") opened his private library oi 400 volumes to the use of the boy of the town, and made it his practice
 to be at home on Saturday afternoon!
 for the purpose of giving out thu books.
 No one but he who has felt it." saiC
 Mir. Carnegie some years ago, car
 know the Intense longing with whicf
 the arrival of Saturday was awaited
 that ss new book might be had. It wal
 when reveling in these treasures tha'
 I resolved, if ever wealth came to me
 that it should be used to establish free | libraries, that other poor boys nigh
 receive opportunities similar to those
 for which we were indebted to tha
 noble man."
 About ten years ago. in a speech al
 Ayr, Scotland, Mir. Carnegie thus avow
 ed his views and aims: T feel more
 strongly bound than ever to devote
 the remaining years of my life less t'
 aims ending in self and more to th'
 service of others, using my surplus
 wealth and spare time in the manner most likely to produce the greates
 good to the masses of the people. From these masses come the wealth which Il
 lntrusted to the owner only as admin
 istrator."
 This is the gospel which Andrew II Carnegie is living up to. in his bounti
 full gifts to free libraries There have
 been other great givers to libraries
 but MT. Carnegie has. almost beyond
 question. founded and helped more H.
 braries than any other individual wht
 ever lived.