Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-11
Bronchial Pneumonia Claims
Andrew Carnegie Worlds
Great PhilanthrOpist.
.BENEFACTIONS TOTAL
ABOVE $3OO,OOO, 900
Life Of Remarkable Achieve
ment Comes To End After
Short Illness.

Lenox, Mass, Aug. ih-( United
Press. Andrew Carnegie. the world q
greatest philanthropist, is dead.
The aged steel baron, waose benefae-
tions totalled more than s3OO,00O,OO
succumbed to broehial pneumonia At his
summer home here this morning.
A statement issued BY attending ply,
siieans merely saids
/" Andrew Carnegie died shortly after
7 clock this morning.
Mrs. Carnegie and Jonn pogntoa, a
private secretary, were at che bedside
when the end came.
Carnegie had been seriously i'll only
since last Friday, His condition be.
came critical late yesterday it is under.
stood.
Tried to Die Poor.
Funeral arrangements have not yei
been announced, but it 10 believed IN,
body will be sent to rittsplrgn fol
burial
Carnegie, early In his eateer as Fl.
naneial leader, expressed The firm con
yietion thaf it was sin % due iich.
tie sought through his counilcsj gifts q
EuvoidAthis self.desianated SIN. = Hi
income was so great, however, that II i
believed he was able to mike but little
impression upon his wealth..
Carnegie had been incaraeitlted for
several years. During the early part Of
the war which came as terrific shock
to him, and shattered his ideais, he be.
gan to fail rapidly and thereafter ap
peared very seldom in public. He was
under almost constant care Of plysi
clans and from time TO time it Mds re
ported that he was totally incal ,aciated
Feeble Since Ilis.
At the time Of his daughters mar
riage recently to Ensign Roswell Miller
L. s. N, il was reported that the ageu
philanthropist was somewhat better. HI
attended the ceremony, bat was verS
feeble. Since that time he mad been
able to move about with numerous at
tcndants. Recently it was given ou'
that he enjoyed successful Fishing
trip, but it was explained ;hdt his at
tendants we're with him constantly, 0ait
ing his hook and assisting MIA IN every
way.
Due To his enfeebled condition, tarne
gle had taken practically no pat IL
any public affairs of an kind since
1915.
Born In Scotland.
Andrew Carnegie, philaathlopisl, va
born in Dnnfermline, Fliesnifc, scot
land, November %, 1885. iic came witt
his family TO The United States in ls4s
settling in Pittsburgh.
He was lord rector OF 81. andrew !
University from 1908 10 1907. iron
which he received the degree Of ~. =
in 1905. He WIS lord reelor OF Aber
deen University from 1912 20 lsif. III
received the degree from allegheny
Pennsylvania, in 1915.
Carnegie migried I.ouise Whitfield o
New York city in 1887.
His first work In America vas TINT o
weavcrs assistant IN cotton fac
tory in Allegheny, Pa, alter which. i
1851, he became Telegraph messcage
boy for the Ohio Telegraph eof1pany a
Pittsburgh.
lie learned telegraphy and cLiere'
the employ Of the Pennsg.sania Rail
road company as an operator, 9aysEeinl
by promotion 10 the management d ih
Pittsburgh division Of fna; system.
Began on Small scsls.
He joined r. r. wooiseii, ias.nie
Of the sleeping car, IL organizing ih
Woodruff Sleeping Car Co.. gainiaI
through this the nueleas of MS fortune
Careful investment o. si..aii earning
/ in oil lands decreased Carncsle's meaa'
During the Civil war ise served as -
pefintendent Of military railways an
government telegraph li..es in the easi
After the war Caraegie deReiope'
iron works Of various kinds and estab
lished At Pittsburgh the keystone fsidg
Works and the Union Lon Horks
lie introduced the Bessemef pfoees
Of steel in this country ii 1896.
Big Merger hs~de.
He was principal owner few year
later of the Homestead aud Edga
Themsoa Steel Works ana other lafs
plants A. head Of tie fiiae Of cafnegi'
+ Phiprs i eoiHFaHY and eafaesie Be
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