The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1919-08-11
A. CARNEGIE,
STEEL CHIEF.
MILLIONAIRE,
DIES, AGE SO
Magnate and Philanthropist
Dies This Morning After
Three Days Illness of Bron-
chial Pneumonia.
GAVE MILLIONS AWAY
tBy Associated Press)

LENOA, MASS, Aug. 11.-AndreW
Carnegie. steel magnate and philan-
thropist. died at his Lenox summer
home, Shadow Brook" at 7:10 this
morning after an illness Of less than
three days with bronchial pneumonia.
So sudden was his death that his
daughter, Mrs Roswell Miller, was un-
| able to get to her fathers side before
he died. His wife and private secre-
| tary were with him at the end.
Mr.. Carnegie has spent most Of the
summer at Lenox, coming here late in
| May and up to few weeks ago en-.
joyed himself in almost daily fishing
trips on Lake Mahkeenac, which bor-
ders his big SHADOW Brook estate,
and in riding about his grounds
Survived by Widow.
He was taken i'll Friday and grew
steadily worse His advanced age and
| lessened powers Of resistance hasten
| ed the end.
Mr.. Carnegie came to Lennox to
make his home in May, 1917, and had
spent the last three summers here. He
| intended to spend his declining days
at his country home here and when
| he bought it announcement was made
that Mr. Carnegie would spend all
here. He came up from New York
| last in May this year
Mr., Carnegie leaves his widow, who
| was Miss Louise Whfteheld of New
York, and his daughter, Margaret, who
married last April Ensign Roswell
| Miller OF New York
| Andrew Carnegie began race
against time when, TN 1901 at the age
| of stxty-flve, he resolved to give away
his enormous fortune No man had
ever launched philanthropic cam
paign OF such dimensions. His was
then fortune OF Just about a quarter
| billion dollars, the largest ever ac-
quired by foreign-born American
To give this stupendous sum away.
in about half the time he had taken to
gather it, was a purpose Carnegie had
fairly we'll fulfilled when death over
took him Monday. He had distributed
abou t s300,000,0o. He was giving
money away at the rate of $4,000, 900
| a year, or more than $50 900 a day
I Gifts Of 100000.
Before he sailed for Scotland in 1901
he left letters announcing gifts OF
s9000,00o. His first big gift was the
setting aside Of 100000 to supply
pensions and relief for the injured
and aged employees of his steel plants
IAN acknowledgment of the deep
debt which owe to the workmen who
have contributed so greatly to my
| success"
He remembered Pittsburgh, the
scene OF his steelmaking triumphs,
by establishing there a great Institute,
including the largest of his libraries.
museum. magnificent concert ball,
III
with a total endowment Of SIG, ,00O, 900
His gifts to libraries were over
$53 900, 100000.
He built a great national institution
In Washington, which should be the
fountain head OF advanced work in
investigation, research and discov-
cry" and placed in the hands Of its
trustees total endowment OF some
$40, 0,000,0 900.
i To his native Scotland his largest
single gift was fund Of $4,000. 900 to
aid education in Scottish universities.
Hero Commission.
He carried out his pet idea Of a
Hero Commission, endowed in 1905
with s6,oo0.oo0, by hundreds Of men.
women and children have been re-
warded with Carnegie medals or pen
sions for acts OF heroism in the rescue
Of imperilled persons. He later ex-
, tended similar benefactions to several
foreign countries.
He established the Carnegie Foun-
dation for the Advancement Of Teach
ing, with a total fund of $16, 900. 600
which has taken up efficiency surveys
OF educational work, aided many IN
stitutlons. and provided pensions for
college professors. In 1911 he capital
lied his educational benevolence, 50
that his gifts to Libraries, colleges and
other institutions should live after
him, by establishing the Carnegie Cor
. poration with fund Of $4,000, 900.
Would Abolish War.
One of his latest and greatest ideals
was the abolition Of war, a hope that
> he cherished in the face of Internal
= ional conflicts. He gave $4,000, 900
; toward an International Peace Fund,
= and built the Peace palace at the
Hague, which was dedicated in 1913.
: He gave S750,000 for the Bureau Of
American Republics at Washington.
q His love of music moved him to
' equip hundreds Of churches and insti-
tutions with pfpe-organs. He never
@ gave directly any large sum to re-
!. ligious purposes. His small gifts to
: colleges amounted to some $50, ,000, 900.
No man left at his death such unique
r and scattered series Of monuments to
4 perpetuate his memory.
2 Story Of Thrift.
+ In the background of these fifteen
i years of philanthropy there Is the fa-
Y miltar story of Scottish thrift, lit
2 tie luck and steel. which made such
a generosity possible.
Carnegie was fond Of telling the
;. story himself. His first penny he
= earned as a child when he astonished
: his schoolmaster in Dunfermline by re-
9 citing Burns long poem, Man Was
Made to Mourn" without a break
Y Andrew was IL when his father, a
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