The Washington herald., 1911-01-21
CARNEGIE ADDS
$1O,OOO,OOO TO FUND
Continued from Page One.

Mr.. Carnegie also expressed himself as
| pleased with the discovery of 6O.O0O new
! worlds. some of them 10000 times as large
as our sun. by Prof. Hale, of the Mount
Wilson Observatory in California, found
ed by the institution. He announced
| that a new 1OO-inch, lens. three times
| more powerful than any now existing, is
being prepared with which. it is hoped.
| 10 discover still vaster number of
worlds.
Mr.. Carnegie said, in confirmation OF a
report of the new gift:
They had a large endowment before
and this sl0O0,D0 makes the total of
the endowments SG5,0O0.Ooo, but the insti-
tuition has already scored successes to
Justify even that sum. I believe that the
institution in research will repay tenfold
in service to the world.
Doubtless you noticed in the tele-
graphic news of Thursday that the yacht
Carnegie had just reached Buenos Ayres.
That yacht is the first one ever built with
bronze substituted for iron: the latter de-
fleets the magnetic needle and bronze does
not The result is that all former OBJ
servationS are inaccurate.
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 a great
steamship upon the rocks which de-
stroyed it On the contrary. he was
sailing in his 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 give ample
dividends upon the whole $25,OCO,O0O, in
my opinion.
Boats Success Pleases Him.
Besides this. the young continent Of
America is able to pay back some of
the great debt it 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 sue
cess of that little boat, the first Of its
kind.
But this is not all the institution is
doing. 1t is experimenting in its geo.
physical laboratories upon the rocks, and
analyzing them, and will soon be ready
to show a formula for the making of
portland cement or concrete. 1t has
found the necessary ingredients by analy-
Sis, anu tEdl lnNdlUdDle HlSA&eTldi can De
produced in any part of the world, wher-
ever the elements are found. Hitherto,
as l understand it. cement could only
be made from certain comparatively rare
deposits.
Consider also the results achieved al,
ready at the great observatory on Mount
Wilson. in California. established by the
institution. which 1 visited last winter.
The institution discovered a young ge-
MUS in Prof. Hale. who adopted entirely
new processes. including photography.
His first test plate. taken just before
my first arrival. revealed 5000 new
worlds. and he has written since that
his second plate has revealed $1,000 new
worlds never seen by man, some of
them ten times larger than our sun.
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 Galileo or Co
rernicus ever dreamed OF. A new lens.
100 inches in diameter. is being prepared.
or three times more powerful than any
yet made I hope shall nvs-long enough
Just to hear the revelations that are to
come from Prof. Hale on Mount Wilson
"a Triumph for Nation.o
TT is a triumph. indeed. for this young
continent OF ours to be the revealer to
the world Of the prime mysteries Of the
and could not resist giving the
Institution the second gift
MANY other wonderful things that the
institution in Washington has in opera
ton, the results Of which promise to be
equally satisfactory. Some day 1t may
need <S0,OC0.O00 We can put no limits
upon its achievements"
The Institutions activities cover
The world; scientific expeditions sent |
put by the institution travel over the |
seven seas and all the continents in their |
work and bring back their observations, |