The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-01-21
ten MILLIONS TO
SCIENTIFIC WORK
Andrew Carnegie Makes the
Gift and He Predicts
New Revelations.

New York. Jan. 21.-An additional
donation of $4,000, 900 to the Carne-
gle institution of Washington by An
drew Carnegie. the founder. was an
nounced yesterday. This brings Mr..
Carnegie's gifts to the institution up
to total of s25,OO0.O00.
Coupled with the formal announce
ment was declaration by Mr.. Carne-
gle that the work of the institution
had cleared from blame the captain of
a British ship who ran his vessel upon
rocks. by proving that the British Ad-
miralty charts by which the captain
was guided were two or three degrees
astray.
The discovery of $4,000 new worlds
by Prof Hale at the observatory on
Mt. Wilson. California. also was an
nounced. The observatory was estab-
lished by the institution.
Mr.. Carnegie also announced that a
telescope far more powerful than man
has ever made is now under construc-
ton for the Mt Wilson observatory.
With it he hopes to make possible the
discovery of still more celestial bod
les The new telescope will have a
lens of 100 inches in diameter.
Revelations Are Predicted.
Mr.. Carnegie declares that 1.-The
whole world is going to listen to the
oracle on the top of Mt. Wilson. and
in a few years we shall know more
about the universe than Calico and
Copernicus ever dreamed of. / hope
shall live long enough to hear the
revelations that are to come from
Prof. Hale on Mt. WILSON,
In confirming report of the en-
dowment Mr.. Carnegie said:
| THE report is correct. They had a
large endowment before, and this ten
millions makes the total of their en-
rowment s25. 100000, but the institu
ton 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 frs,
one ever built with bronze substituted
for iron: the latter defects the mag
netic need and bronze does not. The
result is That all former observations
are Inaccurate
Found Two Grave Errors.
THE Carnegie found two grave er
rors in the British admiralty charts IL
her voyage to Great Britain. and re
turning via the Azores she found thai
the captain was not to blame who raj
a great steamer upon the rocks which
destroyed it.
| ION the contrary, he was sailing il
it's right course, according to his char
but the institution yacht proved thai
the chart was from two to three de
grees astray
! THE Carnegie is going over all the
seas year after year, putting the world
right. That one service will give am
pie dividends upon the whole $25, 900,
900 in my opinion.
Besides this our young continent
of America is able to pay back some
of the great debt it owes to the oldel
continent of Europe, which has laugh
us SO much. There is scarcely any
thing that pleases me SO much JUS
now as the success of that little, thu
first of it's kind.
But this is not all the institution /.
doing. 1t is experimenting in is geo
physical laboratories upon the rock,
and analysing them, and will soon b.
ready to show formula for the max
ing of Portland cement or concrete.