The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-12
ENTIRE WORLD R|l[1j'S PAYS TRIBUTE TO
 STEEL MACNATE
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a philanthropic campaign of such di mentions.
 His was then a fortune of just about a quarter billion dollars, the largest ever acquired by 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, i would, without so much as turning over ones hand, have approached half a billion by the time Carnegie could call himself an octogenarian on November 25, 1915.
 To give this stupendous sum away in about half the time he had taken to gather it, was the purpose of Car negie.
 He declared, when he gave uj gathering wealth and announced an to find it more difficult to give his millions away than it had been to acquire them How would you give $500, 100000 away?" became such 2 popular query that an English adver User who employed it, received nc less than 45,000 suggestions as tc how Carnegie could rid himself of his wealth of his wealth. Twelve thousand pers ons solved the problem in part by asking for some of the y,opau for thamCp1VnS
 The answers which Carnegie him self gave and backed up with his millions have made him the most original if not the greatest of phil anthropists.
 Before he sailed for Scotland in 1901 he left letters announcing gifts of $9,000,000. His first big gift was the setting aside of $4000, 900 to sup ply pensions and relief for the in jured and aged employees of his steel plants acknowledgment oi the deep debt I owe to the workmeiI who have contributed so greatly to my success" He added an extra million for the support of libraries for his workraen, and looked up his
 
 library hobby in a wholesale way by giving $5,2O0,0OO to New York City for the erection of sixty-five branch lib raries in the metropolis. Another million he gave for a library in St. Louis.
 q have just begun to give money away" he said in announcement or these gifts. He kept it up as fast as he could with discrimination. On libraries alone he spent upwards ot s53,0OO, ,O00 He gave them to some two thousand English speaking com munities throughout the world. One of his libraries is in the Fiji Islands.
 He remembered Pittsburgh, the the scene of his steel-making tri- umphs. by establishing there great institute, including the largest of his libraries, museum, magnificent concert hall, and the Carnegie Tech nological Schools, with a total en- dowment of s16.00o,000.
 He built a great national institu- tion in Washington, which should be the fountain head of advanced work ii, "investigation, research and dis covery," and placed in the hands of Its trustees a total endowment of some s20. 0.OOO.000.
 To his native Scotland his largest single gift was fund of $10,000, ,000I to aid education in Scottish univers- ities.
 He carried out his pet idea of a Hero Commission. endowed in 1905 with s5,OO0.0O0 by which hundreds of men, women and children have been rewarded with Carnegie medals or pensions for acts of heroism in the rescue of imperilled persons. He later extended similar benefactions to several foreign countries.
 He established the Carnegie Foun- dation for the Advancement of Teach