The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-25
ANDY CARNEGIE
u YEARS old
Noted Philanthropist Quietly Cele-
brates His Birthday
Anniversary
BENEFACTIONS, Sl5S,OOO,OOO
OF This Vast Amount About $4,000
600 Have Been Bestowed Upon Pub
lie Libraries-coIIeses Hospitals and
Hero Fund Are Receiving Most At
tention at Present.

nero Fund Are Receiving Most At
tsntion at Present.
New York, Nov. 25.-Andrew Car
negie, capitalist, manufacturer and
philanthropist. celebrated his seventy
second birthday today. He spent the
day quietly in his Fifth Avenue home
in company with his family and few
intimate friends invited to partake OF
the Thanksgiving dinner.
Mr.. Carnegie is still devotlng the
most of his time and attention to his
vast schemes Of philanthropy. Col
leges. hospitals and the hero fund, to-
gether with the Foundation for the
Advancement OF Learning, are re-
ceiving most attention. The great
philanthropist is not giving much
money nowadays for Libraries, though
he says he is well satisfied with the
results of his expenditures in the IL
brary line.
A recent estimate places the total
of Mr.. Carnegie's benefactions at $685.
100000. OF this vast amount about
3O,000,000 has been bestowed upon
public libraries in the United States,
Canada, England, Scotland and Wales
The Carnegie Institute has received
almost $2O,0O00O0 and the college
professors pensions have amounted to
about $l5,000.000. Small colleges In
the United States have received $20,-
100000 and about half that sum has
been bestowed upon Scotch universi-
ties. The Hero fund benefaction
amounts to $4,000, 900, and a like sum
represents the amount given for the
endowment of the Carnegie Institute
in Washington. The remainder is rep
resented in miscellaneous gifts in the
United States and Europe, notable
among the latter being the s5.000.000
Dunfermline endowment and the ST.
10000 given for the establishment of
the Peace Palace at The Hague.
John Bigelow at 90.
New York, Nov. 25.-Ninety-two
years young is the term that may be
well applied to John Bigelow, journa-
list. historian. statesfan. diplomat who
received distinguished gathering of
his friends at his home in Gramercy
Park today on the occasion of his
ninety second birthday. Mr.. Bigelow
is wonderfully vigorous for man of
his years. During the past summer
he crossed the Atlantic and made quite
tour of Europe. returning home none
the worse for the trip.
John Bigelow comes of one of the
Oldest New England families his first
American ancestor having settled in
watertown, Mass, in 1912. He him
self was born in Maiden. n. Y. in
1917. The law was his chosen profess
sion. and that led him into politics,
through which he became inspector OF
Sing Sing state prison in 1885. so long
ago that the septuagenarian OF today
was not yet born.
Then. when he was S2. he abandon
ed the law for journalism, becoming
one of the New York Evening Posts
editors under William Cullen Bryant
when its staff was made up of genuine
intellectual giants Mr.. Bigelow re-
mained on the paper until 1861, and
during his stay walt Whitman was one
of its correspondents. Artemus Ward
contributed, Bret Harte was a regular
attache and the Sainte- Beuve letters
were published
In 1861. when the consul general
ship at Paris was considered OF prime
Importance because Of the civil war,
Mr. Bryant was suggested for the
place He couldn't go and Mr. Bigelow
was appointed instead. He did great
work in Paris, making himself ia
vorite at the court of Napoleon III.
1t was Mr.. Bigelow who, while assist
ing in the search for Information about
Benjamin Franklins life in Paris.
found and rescued the manuscript OF
the sage's autobiography. which gives
such a faithful picture of the great
philosopher and statesman.
on the death of the Minister to
France President Lincoln placed Mr..
Bigelow at the head Of the United
States legation in Paris. and he serv-
ed from 1864 to 1867. At the termin-
alton of his mission he received from
the American residents in Paris the
compliment OF a substantially unani-
nous invitation to n farewell dinner
at the Grand Hotel In Paris. Decem-
ber 10. 1866, the first of it's kind ever
paid to an American diplomat at any
foreign court.
After his return to the United
States. Mr.. Bigelow became active I'm
lpolitics. acting as chairman on Tilden's
Erie Canal Commission. Twenty-Five
years ago he was sent to the Isthmus
of Panama by the New York Chamber
OF Commerce to investigate the canal
! that M. de Lesseps was constructing
! At 90 years Of age Mr.. Bigelow Is
| still Interested in affairs. though re-
! tired from business. and often ap-
! pears in public. During the past
) twelve years he has devoted much
$ time and attention to bringing about
$ the consolidation of interests that
: has created the New York Public LIZ