Las Vegas optic., 1911-02-16
We are already able to visualize

We are already able to visualize
ten times as many new enterprises as
the entire endowment will finance"
President Robert S. Woodward of
the Carnegie Institute of Washington
said in reply to an inquiry as to, how
the additional endowment of &c.,
900, 900, just promised the institution
by the Laird of Skibo Castle would
be expended.
But we are not counting our
chickens before they are hatched-
much less before the eggs are laid"
added the head keeper of this great
mother hen of science, who will now
have tucked beneath her sheltering
wings fortune of $25,OOO,OO0
The new donation will not be final
ly transferred to the institution for
some months, and the next scheduled
meeting of the trustees, to be held
for the initiation of new projects,
falls not until December-ten months
hence.
Cranks Besiege the institution
Nevertheless, the nest of the pie
thoric mother hen is already besieged
| by an army of cranks, whom
President Woodward catalogues as
"deluded enthusiasts and designing
charlatans, amateurs, dilettanti, arc
trisectors, circle squarers, perpetual
motion men and women and all sorts
of paradoxers."
Each of these chimera chasers, So
liciting grants for the furtherance of
their pet schemes, believes that he
comes within the compass of that in
teresting paragraph of Mr.. Carnegie's
deed of trust to the institution which
states that one of the establishments
aims is:
"To discover the exceptional man in
every department of study, when
ever and wherever found, inside or
outside of schools, and enable him to
make the work for which he seems
especially designed his life work"
Owns SO Buildings and 10 Vessels
President Woodward refused to be
quoted directly. He said that his in
stitution already owns fifty-nine build
ings, with rooms enough to shelter
the population of a good-sized town,
besides thirteen parcels of land and
fleet of ten vessels.
This inventory includes two astron-
omical observations, five laboratories
and a magnificent ship built OF
bronze instead of steel. Thus far
about twelve hundred individuals
have contributed to the researches
and publications of the institution,
five hundred of them working in the
regularly organized branches of the
establishment and seven hundred OF
them under special grants of money.
Their combined activities have in
cluded thirty different fields of study
in forty separate countries OF the
world, and their discoveries have
been set forth in 167 volumes, aggre-
eating over forty thousand printed
pages, which have been distributed
free to the greater Libraries of the
world, or sod at cost-one-half the
regular publishers rate-to individ-
uals interested in the subjects investi-
gated. To accomplish all of this the
institution has spent, to date, nearly
$4,6OO,O 900, which, with the exception
of a few donations from other phil
anthropists, has all been paid out OF
the interest on the enc owments made
hitherto by Andrew Carnegie. Les
than one-twelfth of this has been
spent for salaries and other admins
tration expenses.
Now as to the irons this great in
stitution has in the fire, and what it
is accomplishing for the good of man
kind.
10000 Solar Systems Discovered
At a point above the clouds and
mile above sea level the institution has
established upon the summit of
Mount Wilson, California, solar
observatory which is being equipped
with the most ingenious instruments
known to astronomy. In the presence
of Mr.. Carnegie, Professor George F.
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