New Britain herald., 1919-08-11

1916 he left Stevens Institute in Ho- bokon where he was taking a course in civil engineering, to drive an am bulace in France, and when the Unit ed States became involved he entered the navy as an ensign.
 Daughter 22 Years old.
 It vas said at the time of the wed- ding that after the honeymoon Mr. Miller and his bride would go to Princeton, N. J., where he would com- plete his studies before entering upon a prof essional career. The former Miss Carngie, heiress of her fathers millions is p years old. Her hus- band is two years her senior.
 Mr. Carnegie at the time of his death vas the hClder of numerous honor5 and decorations bestowed up- on him by universities throughout the world. He received as a result of his benefactiCns abroad the freedom of 54 cities in Great Britain lnd Ireland Altogether he endowed 3,C0O munich pal libraries in the United States, in addition to his other numerous phil anthrOpiC enterprises.
 'Disgraceful" to Keep Fortune
 Andrew Carnegie began race against time when, in 1901, at the age Of siNtN-iivc, he resolved to give away his enormous fortune He held it "diSgraceful'' for a man to keep on gathering idle millions In the com paratiVely few years which the actu- ary could allow him, he would discm- barraSS himself of practically all he had. No man had ever launched a philanthropic campaign of such di- mehSiOnr. .-
 His was then a fortune of just about d quarter billion dollars, the largest ever acquired by a foreign born American, second only to the John D. Rockefeller wealth as the largest individual accumulation in the United States, and, built, as it was of five per cent. steel bonds, it would, without so much as turning over ones hand, have approached half a billion by the time Carnegie could call him self an Octogenarian on November 25 1915.
 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 overlook him today. He has dstrib- uted about $500, 100000 It was giv- ing money away at the rate of over $20, 100000 a, year, or more than $50,- 900 a day.
 Era of Distribution. He declared, when he gave up gath erng wealth and announced an era of distrihut ion. that he expected to find it more difficult to give his millions away than it had been to acquire them. ''Iow would you give s3O0,- nn
 lar query that an English advertiser who employed it, received no less than 45,000 suggestions as to how Carnegie could lid himself of his wealth. Twelve thousand persons solved the problem in part by asking for some of the money for them selves.
 The answers which Carnegic him. self gave and backed up with his mil lions have made him the most origi- nal if not the greatest of philan- thropists.
 Made Gifts of $9,OOO,OOU. Before ne sailed for Scotland in 1901 he left letters announcing gifts of S9.0OO, ,O00. His first big gift was the setting aside of 34,0O0,OOO to supply pensions and relief for the in iured and aged employees of his steel nlants-''an acknowledgment of the dcep debt which owe to the work - mon who have contributed so greatly l to my success" He added an extra 1 n,illiort for the support of libraries for ] his wOrkmcn, and look up his library l hobby in a wholesale way by giving I s5.2o0,O 900 to New York city for the ! erection of sxty-t1ve branch libraries in the metropolis. Another million 1 he gave for a library in St. Louis,
 T have just begun to give money | aWag" he said in amour cen ent Of i these gifts. He kept it up as fast as