Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-21
Carnegie Well Pleased With
Work of His Institution.
ENTITLED TO MORE MONEY
May Need $5o,0OO.OO0 Some Day,
Says the Ironmaster.
A JOKE ON DR.. WOODWARD
Mr.. Carnegie Protested Annoyance
at Call From President of
the Institute.

| NEW YORK. January .i.-AndreW Car
| negie last night confirmed the report
that he had given an additional 100000
| 600 to the endowment of the Carnegie In
stitution at Washington. In commenting
| on the gift and the work of the institu-
| ton the ironmaster said:
THE report is correct They had a
| large endowment before, and this Slo,-
CtOWo makes the total of their endow-
ment SoJ.UUo.GJU, but the institution has
already scored successes to justify even
that sum- believe that the institution
in research will repay tenfold in service
| TO the world.
Doubtless YOU noticed in the tele-
graphic news of yesterday that the yacht
Carnegie had just reached Buenos Aires.
That yacht Is the first one ever built with
bronze. substituted for iron. The latter
defects the magnetic needle and bronze
does not. The result is that all former
observations are inaccurate.
Grave Errors in Charts.
The Carnegie found two grave errors
+ in the British admiralty charts in her
voyage to Great Britain. and returning
via the Azores she found that the cap
tain was not to blame who ran great
steamer upon the rocks, which destroyed
it, On the contrary. he was sailing in
the right course according to his chart.
but the institution yacht proved that the
chart was from two to three degrees
astray.
The Carnegie is going over all the
seas year after year putting the world
right. That one service will leave ample
dividends upon the whole S2',,OuU.UU IN
my opinion.
Of
America is able to pay back some Of
the great debt 1t owes to the older con-
tinent of Europe. which has taught us
so much. There is scarcely anything that
pleases me SO much just now as the
success of that little boat. the first of its
kind. But this is not all the institution
is doing.
Formula for Portland Cement.
1T is experimenting in its geophysical
laboratories upon the rocks and analysing
them and will soon be ready to show
formula for the making of Portland ce-
ment or concrete. 1t has found the in
gradients necessary by an analysis and
that invaluable material can be produced
in any part Of the world wherever the ele-
ments are found. Hitherto. as I under
stand it. cement could only be made from
certain comparatively rare deposits.
Consider also the results already
achieved at the great observatory on
Mount Wilson in California, established
by the institution, which l visited last
winter. The institution discovered a
young genius in Prof. Hale. who adopted
entirely new processes, including photog-
raphy. His first test plate taken just
before my arrival. revealed 10000 new
worlds and he has written me since that
his second plate has revealed 10000 new
worlds never seen by man. some of them
ten times larger than our sun.
Oracle on Mount Wilson.
The whole world is going to listen to
the oracle on the top of Mount Wilson.
and in a few years we shall know more
about the universe than Calico and
Copern:cus ever dreamed of. A new lens
100 inches in diameter is being prepared
of three times more power than any yet
made. l hope l shall live long enough
just to hear the revelations that are to
come from Prof. Hale on Mount Wilson
1T is a triumph, indeed for this young
continent of ours to be the revealer to the
world of the prime mysteries of the uni
verse. and / couldn't resist giving the i'm
Stitution the second gift.y
MANY other wonderful things that in
stitution in Washington has in operation
the results of which promise to be equal
~ satisfactory Some day it may need
$50 100000. We can put no limit its
achievements. for we have a body of the
ablest men in the world in the institution
for such worldwide work.
Donation Is in Bonds.
Mr.. Carnegie's latest donation to the in
stitution, like his first is in bonds. The
institution was founded January 49, 1902,
when Mr.. Carnegie gave to a board Of
trustees S1O.OOOOOO in registered bonds
yielding per cent interest. The purpose
of the institution. in Mr.. Carnegie's
words, is lin the broadcast and most lib
eral manner to encourage investigation,
research and discovery. show the applica-
ton Of knowledge to the Improvement of
mankind, and provide such buildings, lab
oratories. books and apparatus as may
be needed.
Mr.. Carnegie is fond of his little joke,
and even in the bestOwal of 50 magnifi-
cent gift INDUCED this fOndness. He
had written a note to, Robert S. Wood
ward of Washington. president of the
institution. telling him of the donation.
and this note was upon Mr.. Carnegie s
desk when Mr. Woodward called upon
the steel magnate. SHOW him in said
Mr.. Carnegie.
Sent Woodward From Room.
Mr.. Woodward, said the ironmastT,
as the president entered, Il am very
busy" Assuming petulant air. Mr..
Carnegie added: II need some time to de-
vote to my affairs here"-indicating a