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had fairly well fulfilled when death
about $500, 600, 900. It was giving money
away at the rate Of over $40, 000, 900 a
year. or more than $4,000 a day.
Had Enough Money.
He declared, when he gave up gather
ing wealth and announced an era OF
Il more difficuit to give SG his millions nj
away than It had been to acquire them,
"How would you give $500, GOO 900
away?' became such a popular query
that the English advertiser who EN-
ployed It, received no less than $4,000
suggestions as to how Carnegie could
rid himself Of his wealth. Twelve
thousand persons solved the problem in
part by asking for some Of the money
for themselves.
The which Carnegie himself
gave and backed UP with his millions
have made him the most original II not
the greatest Of philanthroplsts,
Before he sailed for Scotland, in 1901,
he left letters announcing gifts Of 49,
900, 600. His first gift was the setting
aside Of $4,000, 900 TO supply pensions
and relief for the injured and aged
acknowledgement of the deep debt which
| owe to the workmen who have cons
tributed SO greatly 70 my success He
added an extra million for the support
Of libraries for his w%orkfnen, and took
up his library hobby In a Wholesale
way by giving SIS, 200, 900 to New York
city for the erection Of 65 branch IL
brarles in the metropolis, Another
million he gave for a library in st.
Louis.
1000 Libraries.
II have Just begun to give money
away he said in announcement OF
these gifts. He kept II up as fast as
he could with discrimination. on IL
hraries alone he spent upward of $685.
900, 900. He gave them to some 1000
English speaking communities through
but the world. One Of his libraries is
In the Fiji islands.
He remembered Pittsburgh, the scene
Of his steelmaking triumphs, by es-
tabllshing there a great institute, in
| GLIDING the largest OF his libraries, a
museum, a magnificent concert hall and
the. Carnegie Technological schools
with a total endowment OF ZIG, 00O. 600.
He built @ great national institution
in Washington, which should be the
| fountain head Of advanced work In 'in-
v~estigation, research and discovery"
and placed in the hands Of its trustees
a total endowment Of some $50, 900, 900.
To his native Scotland his largest
single gift was a fund OF $40, 000, 900 to
| aid education in Scottish universities.
He carried out his pet idea of a hero
| commission, endowed in 1905 with S,-
900, 900 by which hundreds Of men,
women and children have been reward
| ed with Carnegie medals or pensions for
acts Of heroism in the rescue Of imper-
lied persons. He later extended SINH
lar ~benefactions to several foreign coun-
tries.
Equipped Many Churches.
= He established the carnegie founda-
ton for the advancement of teaching,
with a total fund OF SIS, 000. 900, which
has taken up efficiency surveys OF edu-
cational work, aided many institutions
and provided pensions for college pro-
fessors, In 1911 he capitalized his ed
vocational benevolence, 80 that his gifts
to Libraries, colleges and other insti-
tutions should live after him, by estab-
fishing the Carnegie corporation, with
a fund Of $2b, 100000,
One OF his latest ana greatest ideals
was the abolition Of war. q hope thai
he cherished In the face of international
conflicts. He gave $40, 000, 900 toward
an International peace fund. and built
the peace palace at The Hague, which
was dedicated In 1913. He gave $780,
900 for the bureau OF American repub-
lies at Washington,
His love OF music moved him to equiI
hundreds Of churches and institutions
with pipe organs. He never gave di-
rectly any large sum to religious pur-
poses. OF his organ gifts he said NJ
would hold himself responsible for what
the organ pealed forth on the sabbath
but not for what might be said In the
pulpit. One OF his very earliest gifts
as far back as 1891, was the Carnegie
Music hall In New York. at a cost o
81, 900, 900, and as president OF the New
York Philharmonic society he spent hi
money literally in furthering its ideals
He also literally backed the Pittsburgl
orchestra.
is Years Of Philanthropy.
To the Allied Engineers societies h
gave 81, 900, 900, His small gifts to col
leEes amounted to some S2O,000,0oO. NJ
man left at his death such an uniqul
and such a scattered series of monu
| mehts to perpetuate his memory.
In the background of these Is gear
of philanthropy there is the familia
story OF Scotch thrift, a little luck, AM
, steel. which made such generosity pos
sible.
Carnegie was fond OF telling the stor
. himself, Rapidly covered, 1t was this
His first penny he earned Unexpected
= as a child when he astonished nj
\ schoolmaster in Dunfermline by rect
\ ing Burns long poem, Man Was Mad
= to Mourn" without a break. There
I an anecdote of how, when asked
y Sunday school to recite a proverb fror
a scripture the young Scot unwittingl
= forecast his own fortune by giving III
= homely advice-"Look after the penc
7 and the pounds will take care of then
selves"
Andrew was IL when his father,
master weaver, was brought almost
y him out OF business, The family nun
- hered four, including Andy and h
i, younger brother William. The paren
decided to emigrate to America, when
some relatives had preceded them Wi
y, success. They settled at Alleghei
u City, Pa, across the river from Pitt
. burgh, in 1S4s. The father and Al
/, drew found work In q cotton factor
II the son as bobbin boy. Il was his fir
\, work, The salary was $l.2O a wee
~ He was soon promoted, at o slight q,
"a vance, 70 engineers assistant, !
q stocked the boilers and ran the engi
Il In the factory cellar.
Inspiration in Povert@
r. In those dingy quarters. where
a worked 12 hours a day, came the J
y, spiration that later led to his Libra
~ benefaotions, he said, A Col. Anderse
~ possessed Of some 400 books, announc
~ he would open his library every wee
y end and allow the boys to borrow a
y. books they pleased, Carnegie was 0
n of the most eager readers.
~ Only lie who has longed as ! I
", for Saturdays to come he has ga
IN can understand what Col. Anders
did for me and other boys of Alleghel
II ls 1t any wonder that, I resolved,
~, ever surplus wealth came to me,
., would use 1t initiating my benefaetol
a. At IA Carnegie emerged from
n engine cellar and became a telegra
messenger. j. Douglas Reid, a ID,
~ fermline man, who had come to Anne
ny ca early, was head Of the office 9
w he made Andrew his protege, Tel
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