Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-21
TEN MILLIONS FOR RESEARCH
Andrew Carnegie Makes Additional
Donation to Institution.
HE SAYS INVESTMENT WILL PAY
steel King Points to Accurate Marine
Charts Made by Yacht Carnegie
as one Instance of Good
Work.


NEW YORK, Jan 2O.-Andrew Carnegie
today announced a gift of $iO,OOO0OO to the
endowment fund Of the Carnegie Institution
Of Research at Washington. This brings
his endowment to the institute up to a
total Of $25OOO.OOO.
Coupled with the formal announcement
was a declaration by Mr.. Carnegie that
the work of the institution had cleared
from blame the captain of a British ship
who ran his vessel on the rocks, by prov
ing that the British admiralty charts, by
which the captain was guided, were two
or three degrees astray.
The discovery OF 5000 new worlds by
Prof Hale at the observatory on Mt. Will
son, California. also was announced.
Mr. Carnegie also announced that far
more powerful telescope than man has
ever made is now under construction for
the Mt. Wilson observatory.
The new telescope viii have lens forty
inches in diameter. Mr. Carnegie declares
that the whole world is going to listen to
the oracle on the top of Mt. Wilson and in
few years we shall know more about the
universe than Callileo and Copernicus ever
dreamed of. / hope ! shall live long enough
to hear the revelations that are to come
from Prof, Hale on Mt Wilson.
says Investment Will PRys
In confirming a report of the endow-
ment, Mr.. Carnegie said:
The report is correct. They had a large
endowment before and this ten millions
makes the total OF their endowment twen-
ty-flve millions but the institution has al
ready scored successes to justify even that
sum. l believe that the institution in re-
search will repay tenfold in service to the
world.
! Doubtless you noticed in the telegraphC
news Of yesterday that the yacht. Carnegie
/ has just reached Buenos Ayres. That yacht
| is the first one ever built with bronze sub
stituted for iron; the latter defects the
magnetic needle and bronze does not. The
result is that all former observations are
Inaccurate.
THE Carnegie is going over all the seas
year after year, putting the world right
That one service will give ample dividends
on the whole t25,OOOOOO in my opinion.
There is scarcely anything that pleases
me so much as the success of that little
boat, the first OF it's kind.
| But this is not all the institution Is
/ doing. 1t is experimenting in it's physica
/ laboratory the rocks and analyzint
| them and will soon be ready to show {
! formula for the making Of Portland cement
or concrete. 1t has found the ingredient.
necessary and that invaluable material car
/ be produced in any part Of the worIt
/ wherever the elements are found. Hitherto
as 1 understand it, cement could only b,
made from certain comparatively rare de
/ poslts."
Donation r. I'm Bonds.
Mr.. CRrnegie's latest donation is in bonds
The institution was founded on January
2S' 1902, when Mr.. Carnegie gave TO a board
OF trustees slO,OOOOOO in registered bonds,
yielding per cent interest.
/ The purpose OF the institution in Mr.
Carnegie's words is "in the broadest and
most liberal manner to encourage investi
CATION research and discovery. show tn,
application Of knowledge to the improve
ment Of mankind and provide such build