Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-11
CARNEGIE DIES
AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
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The answers which Carnegie him
self gave and backed up with MS
millions have made him the most
original if not the greatest OF phll-
anthropists.
Before he sailed for Scotland III
1901 he left letters announcing gil
of $9,0OO,0O0. His first big 6 IL W1S
the setting aside of $4,OOO,OOO 10
supply pensions and relief Tor the
injured and aged employees OF MS
steel acknowledgment OF
the deep debt which | owe to inc
workmen who have contributed so
greatly 10 nv success" He added
an extra million for the support ol
libraries for his workmen, and look
IN his library hobby in Il wholesale
way by giving $5,20O,0O0 to New
York CITY for the erection OF slNtg :
five branch Libraries in the me-
tropolis. Another million he gave
for a library in st. Louis.
$4,000, 900 For Libraries
Il have Just begun to give money
away" he said in announcement OIL
these gifts. He kept it up as tast as
he could with discriminat. on. On L.
braries alone he spent upwards ot
s5S,OOO.OO0. He gave them to some
two thousand English-speakinS
communities throughout the world
one of his libraries is in the flJ'
Islands.
He remembered Pittsburgh, the
scene of his Stecl-making trlunpnS'
by establishing there great lhSIi-
tute, including the largest OIL ms
Libraries, a museum, a maSnlllcei'I
concert hall, and the Carnegle
archaeological schools, with a total
=
He built a great national institu-
ton in Washington, which shoulu
be the fountain head of advanced
work in investigation, research and
discovery" and placed in the hands
of its trustees total endowment
of some $20,00O,OOO.
To his native Scotland his largest
single gift was Il fund of $4,000
600 to aid education in Scottish uni
NersitieS.
He carried out his pet idea of a
Hero Commission, endowed in lSOo
with S5,OOO,OO0 by which hundreds
of men, women and children have
been rewarded with Carnegie medals
or pensions for acts of herolsm 10
the rescue of impcrilcd "ersons. lie
later extended similar bcnefactions
10 several foreign countries.
Establishes Corporation
He established the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement ot
Teaching, with a total fund of Sl3,-
100000, which has taken up eihcl-
ency surveys of educational WORK.
aided many institutions and proNld-
ed pensions for college professors.
In 1911 he capitalized his educa-
tional benevolence, so that his gifts
to libraries, colleges and other IN
stitutions should live after him, by
establishing the Carnegie Corpora
ton with a fund of $25,000,000
One of his latest and greatest
ideals was the abolition of war, a
hope that he cherished in the face
of international conflicts. He gave
$1O,OOO,O0O toward an Inter-
national Peace Fund, and built the
Peace Palace at The Hague, which
was dedicated in 1913. He gave
$3.50, 900 for the Bureau of Amerl-
can Republic at Washington.
Gives Organs to Churches
His love of music moved him to
equip hundreds of churches and in
stitutions with pipeorgans. He
never gave directly any large sum
to religious purposes. OF his organ
gifts he said he 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 Car
negie Music Hall in New York, at
u cost of $2.000,000, and as presi-
dent of the New York philharmonic
Society he spent his money liber-
ally in furthering its ideals. He also
literally backed the Pittsburgh or
cheStra.
To the Allied Engineers Societies
he gave S2,000,000. His small gifts
to colleges amounted to some $2O,-
100000. No man left at his death
such an unique and such scattered
series of monuments to perpetuate
his memory.
story of Scotch Thrift
In the background of these fif-
teen years of philanthropy there is
the familiar story of Scotch thrift,
a little luck, and steel, which made
such generosity possible.
Carnegie was fond of telling the
story himself Rapidly covered it
was this: His first penny he earned
unexpectedly as child when he
astonished his schoolmaster in Dun
fermline by reciting Burns long
poem, Man Was Made to Mourn"
without a break. There is an anec-
School to recite a proverb from
Scripture, the young Scot unwit-
tingly forecast his own fortune by
giving the homely advice - Look
after the pence, and the pounds will
take care of themselves"
Andrew was II when his father
master weaver, was brought almost
to destitution. The steam looms
drove him out of business. The
family numbered four, including
ANDY" and his younger brother,
William. The parents decided to
emigrate to America, whence some
relatives had preceded them with
Success. They settled at Allegheny
City, Pa, across the river from
Pittsburgh. in 1S4S. The father and
Andrew found work in a cotton fac
tory, the son as bobbin boy. 1t was
his first work. The salary was $1.2O
week. He was soon promoted, at
slight advance, to engineers as
sistant. He stocked the boilers and
ran the engine in the factory cellar.
In those dingy quarters, where
he worked twelve hours day, came
the inspiration that later led to his
library bencfactions, he said. A
Colonel Anderson, possessed of some
400 books, announced he would open
his library every weekend and allow
boys to borrow any books they
pleased. Carnegie was one of the
most eager readers.
only he who has longed as I did
for Saturdays to come" he has
said, "can understood what Colonel
Anderson did f9S 4ir and other boys
of Allegheny. Is it any wonder that
resolved, if ever surplus wealth
came to me, | would use it imitat-