Imperial Valley press., 1919-08-11
End Came So Suddenly That His Daughter Was Unable
To Reach His Bedside Wife and Private Secretary
Present When He Answers Last Summons.
WAS WORLDS GREAT PH|LANTHR0P|ST
Andrew Carnegie Started Life Poor Boy and Rose to
He One of the Richest Men in the World-Has Given
Away Several Large Fortunes in Past Ten Years.

veys of educational work, aided many
institutions and provided pensions for
college professors. In 1911 he cap
italized his educational benevolence,
so that his gifts to libraries, colleges
and other institutions should live after
him, by establishing the Carnegie
Corporation with a fund of $25, ,OOO,-
900.
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
$10,O00,OO0 toward an international
peace fund, and built the Peace Pal
lace at The Hague, which was dedi-
Gated in 1918. He gave $75O,OOO for
the Bureau of American Republics at
Washington.
His love of music moved him to
equip hundreds of churches and in
stitutions with pipe organs. He new
er gave directly any large sum to
AViiSA AOuS pun poScs. Vic VI HIS very
early gifts, as far back as 1891, was
the Carnegie Music Hall in New
York, at cost of $2,OOO,O00, and as
president of the New York Philhar-
monic Society he spent his money
literally in furthering its ideals. He
also literally backed the Pittsburg
orchestra.
To the Allied Engineers Societies
he gave $2,OOO,OOO. His small gifts
to colleges amounted to $2O,OOO,0OO.
No man left at his death such an
unique and such a scattered series
of monuments to perpetuate his men,
ory.
In the background of these fifteen
years Of philanthropy there is the
familiar story Of Scotch thrift, lit
tie 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 as
tonished his schoolmaster in Dun
fermline by reciting Burns' poem,
"Man was Made to Mourn" without
break.
Andrew was IL when his father, a
master weaver, was brought almost
to destitution. The parents decided
to emigrate to America. They set
tied at Allegheny City, Pa, in 1S4s.
The father and Andrew found work
in cotton factory, the son as bob
bin boy. The salary was $1.2O a
week. He was soon promoted, at a
slight advance, to engineers assist
ant. He stocked the boilers and ran
the engine in the factory cellar.
In those dingy quarters, where he
worked twelve hours a day, came the
inspiration that later led to his IL
brary benefactions, he said. A COL
onel Anderson, possessed of some
400 books, announced he would open
his library every weekend and al.
low boys to borrow any books they
pleased. Carnegie was one of the
most eager readers.
At IA Carnegie emerged from the
engine cellar and became tele-
graph messenger. He is said to have
been the third operator in the United
States to accomplish the feat of read
ing messages by sound alone.
! Andrew was 10 when his father
died, and he became at once the bread
winner of the family and a true cap
italist. He had been told by his trust
ed employer that ten shares of Adams
Express stock could be had for $500
! and it was good investment. At a
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