The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20
ADDS TEN MILLION
Carnegie Increases to $25, 900,
900 Endowment Fund
OF the Institution Bearing His
Name at Washington.
TELLS OF ITS WORK.
Is Having New Telescope Built
for Mt. Wilson.
To Be More Powerful Than Any
the World Has Seen.

New York. Jan. 20.-The donation of
an additional endowment of S10,000,0o0
to the Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton by Andrew Carnegie, the founder
was announced, today. This brings MI
Carnegie's gifts to the institution up
to $25,00O,00O,
Coupled with the formal announce
nent was a declaration by Mr.. Carnegie
that the work of the institution had
cleared from blame the captain OF
British ship who ran his vessel on the
rocks, by proving that the British &C
miralty charts by which the captain
was guided were two or three degrees
astray. r-ts
The discovery of 10000 new worlds
by Professor Hale at the observatory
on Mount Wilson. Cal, also was an
nounced. The observatory was estab-
hshed by the Institution and its oper-
atoms and discoveries afford Mr.. car
negie more delight; perhaps than any
other workings of the institution. MT.
Carnegie also announced that Tar
more powerful telescope than man has
ever made is now under construction
for the Mt. Wilson observatory. with
it he hopes to make possible the us
covery of still more celestial bodies.
The new telescope will have lens
100 inches in diameter. Mr.. Carnegie
declares that 1.-The whole world is go
ing to listen to the oracle on the top
of Mt. Wilson and in afew years we
shall know more about the universe
than Calico and Copernicus ever
dreamed Of. I hope shall live long
enough to hear the revelations that
are to come from Prof. Hale on Mt
WILSON,
To Put the World Right.
In confirming a report OF the en-
dowment, Mr.. Carnegie said:
THE report is correct they had a
large endowment Before, and this ten
Z, 40fo of fhPCn l.
dowmentS twenty-five millions, but the
institution has already scored successes
to justify even that sum. believe the
institution in research will repay ten
fold in service to the world. =
Doubtless you noticed in the teie-
graphic news of yesterday that the
yacht Carnegie has just reached
Buenos Ayres. That yacht is the nrst
one ever built with bronze substituted
for iron; the latter defects the mag
netic needle and bronze does not Inc
result is that all former observations
are inaccurate.
sThe Carnegie is going over all the
seas year after year putting the world
right That one service will give am
pie dividends on the whole 25 millions
OF dollars, in my opinion.
Besides this our young contnent
of America is able to pay back some of
the great debt it loves to the oidet
continent of Europe which has taughl
us so much There is scarcely any
thing that pleases me so much just
now 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 its
geo-physical laboratory on the rocks
and analyzing them and will soon DC
ready to show a formula for the max
ing of Portland cement or concrete
1t has found the ingredients necessary
and that Invaluable material can pe
produced in any part of the worie
Wherever the elements are found
Hitherto, as I understand it, cement
could only be made from certain com
paratively rare deposits
Mr.. Carnegie's latest donation is II
bonds. The institution was founded
| on Jannary %, 1902, when Mr.. Carne-
| gle gave to a board of trustees $1O,-
| coo. 900 in registered bonds yielding
per cent interest. The purpose of the
| institution in Mr.. .Carnegie's words Is
'sIn the broadest and most liberia
manner to encourage investigation, re
search and discovery, show the appll-
| cation of knowledge to the improve
ment of mankind and provide sucf
building, laboratories, books and ap-
paratus as may be needed"