Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-01-21

| New York, Jan. 20.-The donation
of an additional endowment of $10,-
100000 to the Carnegie Institution of
Washington by Andrew Carnegie, the
founder. was announced today. This
brings Mr.. Carnegie's gifts to the in
stitution up to a total of s25,000.00o.
| Coupled with the formal announce
ment was a declaration by Mr.. Car
negie that the work of the institution
had cleared from blame the captain
of a British ship who ran his vessel
upon the rocks by proving that the
| British admiralty charts by which the
captain was guided, was two or three
! degrees astray
The discovery of $4,000 new worlds
by Professor Hale at the observatory
on Mount Wilson, Cal, was also an
nounced. The observatory was estab-
| lished by the institution and its opeI~
ations and discoveries afford Mr.. Car
negie more delight. perhaps, than any
other workings of the institution.
| Mr.. Carnegie also announced that a
far more powerful telescope than man
has ever made is now under construc-
tion for the Mt. Wilson observatory.
In confirming a report of the en-
/
The report is correct. They had
large endowment before, and this s10,-
100000 makes the total of their en-
dowment s25,o0o,000, but the institu-
tion has already scored successes to
justify even that sum. l believe that
the institute in research will repay
ten fold in service to the world.
Doubtless you noticed in the tele-
graphic news of yesterday that the
yacht Carnegie had just reached
/ Buenos Ayres. That yacht is the first
one ever built with bronze substitute
ed Tor iron, the latter defects the
magnetic needle and bronze does not
Inc result is that all former observa-
tons are inaccurate.
| ihe Carnegie found two grave err
rors in the British admraly charts in
her voyage to Great Britain and re-
| turning via the Azores she found that
the captain was not to blame who ran
a great steamer upon the rocks which
destroyed. on the contrary he was
sailing it i'll its right course. according
TO his chart, but the institution yacht
| proved that the chart was from two
to three degrees astray.
lhe carnegie IS going over all the
seas. Year after year, putting the
| world right. That one service Will
give ample dividends upon the whole
| twenty five million dollars in nv opin-
| ion.
Besides this. our young continent
| OF America is able to pay back some
OF the great debt it owes to the older
continent of Europe. which has taught
| us so much There is scarcely any,
thing that pleases me so much lust
now as the success of that little boat,
the first of its kind. But this is not
all the institution is doing. 1t is ex-
perimenting in its geo-physical labora-
tories upon the rocks and analyzing
them and Will soon be ready to show
formula for the making of Portland
| cement or concrete. 1t has found the
ingredients necessary by analysis and
| the Invaluable material can be pro-
duced in any part of the world. where
ever the elements are found. Hith-
erto, as l understand it, cement could
only tie made from certain compara-
lively rare deposits.
| Consider also the results already
| achieved at the great observatory OH
Mount Wilson. in California, estab-
lished by the institution, which I vis-
| tied last winter. The institution dis
| covered a young genius in Professor
| Hale, who adopted entirely new pro-
cesses, including photography. His
first test plate, taken just before my
arrival. revealed 5000 new worlds
J 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.
"The whole world is going to lis
ten to the oracle on the top of Mount
| Wilson and in a few years Wc shall
know more about the universe thar
Gdlileo and Capernicus ever dreamed
| Of. A new lens, 100 inches in diameter
| is being prepared, three times more
! powerful than any yet made. ! hope
| shall live long enough Just to hear
! the revelations that are to come from
Professor Hale on Mount Wilson.
"It is triumph indeed. for this
young continent of ours to be the re-
vealer to the world of the prime mys-
| teries Of the universe. and | couldn't
resist giving the institution the second
| gift
MANY other wonderful things that
| INSTITUTION Ill w WdSllliiSloii has III opei
alton, the results of which promise
to he equally satisfactory. Some day
it may need some fifty million of dol
lars. We car put no limits upon its
achievements"
| Mr.. Carnegie's latest donation to the
| institution, like his first. Is in bonds
The institution was founded on jan
2s 1902 when Mr. Carnegie gave to a
board of trustees. $10.0O0,000 in regis
tered bonds, yielding per cent. inter-
est The purpose of the institution, IN
Mr.. Carnegie's words, is "in the broad-
est and most liberal manner to 'encour-
age investigation, reSearch~-a and diss
covery. show the application OF