Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-02-11

Is MI. carnegie S DdtLle
- - S, 4 cry, and as a retort Mr..
declared: No one shall outgive me-"
Theirs is not a fight like those that
Wall street so often sees-neither
one is trying to ruin the other in this
game of money. 1t is a fine and friend
ly rivalry between the Pittsburg
ironmaster and the Cleveland oil king
to see which one will be able to give
away the most money during his life
time. At the moment Mr.. Carnegie
leads by about SIS 900, 900, but nobody
can tell when Mr.. Rockefeller will
come back at him with some more
millions that again the lead, which
neither one ever succeeds in keeping
long.
Up to a short time ago Mr.. Rookie
Teller led the giving game, led by
something like SIS, 600, 900, but Mr. Car
negie on December II took it from
him bX throwing into the balance $10.-
100000, giving for the establishment
of international peace With this gift
came the appointing of a board of
trustees to work for international ar
bitration and the abolition of war,
which Mr.. Carnegie calls degrading
evil This put him ahead some
100000 or 50, and up to the mo-
ment of writing he still leads. But
any day Mr.. Rockefeller may be ex-
pected to come back at him.
Munificent Gift to Chicago.
AS it was just one week after Mr..
Carnegie's newest gift Mr.. Rockefeller
did make the University of Chicago
$40, 1000, 900 richer, but this was mere
ly transfer of millions. He ordered
$10.000,000 out of his $50 100000 fund
for general education to be paid
to the university, at the rate of ST.
| coo, 900 a year for ten years. 1t was
| not really an additional gift so his
sum total of gifts for all purposes
! still stays at S174,411 900, while Mr.
Carnegie's amounts to $179.s0O,00O.
That is the situation today as re
| CARDS two masters of many millions
| However. nobody expects them to end
their days in the poorhouse, for the
simple reason that their incomes pile
up faster than they can spend the
money.
The unique contest started about
so years ago. The two multi-mil
| lionaires have been at it ever since
! matching each others gifts with gifts
and little more. For general educa
| ton Mr.. Rockefeller has given the
mighty sum of s53.0oO.O00. Mr. Car
/ negie is only million behind Will
his $50 100000 for libraries. Mr. Car
negie gave 100000 900 for the Carne
gle institute in Pittsburg and s12 900,
600 for the Carnegie institute il
Washington. total of SIS, 900. 600
And now Mr.. Rockefeller adds $40
600. 900 to the s25. oOo.O 900 he has al
ready given to the University of Chi
cago, going Mr.. Carnegie $1,000, OOi
better.
Though announced on December p
Mr.. Rockefeller's transfer of the $40
00o 900 to the Chicago institution O
learning was really made Decembe
10, and the very next day came MI
Carnegie's ten millions for peace
Mr.. Rockefeller's latest gift was ar
| nounced on October Is last, when h
added S3.S20,0 900 to the $4,000, 900 h
had already given to the Institute 70
Medical Research Since that date
score of gifts of from S5O,O00-to $3.50
GOO have been announced, but no
one that can rival Mr. Carnegie's $40
000. 900 in one lump sum. 1t is a do
lar to doughnut that Mr. Rockefe
Ter will soon. come hack at Mr. Cal
negie.
Jealousy Over Gifts
Among his friends Mr. Rockefeile
makes no secret OF his determinatio
not to let Mr.. Carnegie outgive hin
He confesses that he Is Jealous of Nj
Carnegie's world wide philanthropie.
He refuses to discuss Mr.. Carnegie
gifts publicly. just as Mr. Carnegie T,
uses to refer to Mr.. Rockefeller's- 1