New Britain herald., 1919-08-11

he could with discrimination. on libraries alone he spent upwards of 5000, ,O0O. He gave them to some two thousand English speaking com | munilies throughout the world. One of his libraries is in the Fiji Islands Establishes Institute. He remembered Pittsburgh, the l scene of his stcel-malling triumphs, l by establishing there a great institute, l including the largest of his libraries, | {, museum, a, magnificent concert hall 1 and the Carnegie Technolgical schools | with a total endowment of $16, ,000,- 1 coo.
 He built 8 great national insttu-
 lion in Washington, which should be l the fountain head of advanced work 1 in investigation, research and discON- 1 e"y,' ad placed in the hands of it's 1 trustees d total endowment of some 1 SEQ, 0O00O0.
 To his native Scotland his largest
 single gift WAS a fund of $l0,000,O00 { to aid education in Scottish universi-. | ties.
 | He carried out his pet idea of d 1 hero commission, endowed i'll 1905 i with $5,0O0,00c by which hundreds or
 men, women and children have been 1 rewarded with Carnegie medals or | pensions for tets of hercism in the l rescue of impcrilled persons. He later
 extended similar benefactiors to sev- | eral foreign countries.
 | Carnegie Foundation. He established the Carnegie FOun-
 dation for the Advancement of Teach
 ing, with a total fund of S15, ,000, ,OOO
 which has taken up efficiency surveys ] of educational work, aided many in l StitutionS and provided pensions for 1 college prof 2sSorS. In 1911 he capl-
 talized his educational bCneyolence, so
 that his gifts to libraries, colleges and l other Institutions, should live after ] him, by establishing the Carnegie l Corporation with a fund of $25.0Q0,- | COG.
 Wanted Abolition of War.
 One of his latest and &rCatest ideals | was the abolition of war, d hope that
 he cherished in the face of intcrna- 1 tional conflicts. He gave $10,OOO,OoO l toward an international Peace fund,
 and built the Peace Palace at The | Hague, which was dedicated in 1915. ] He gave $750, 900 for the Bureau of
 American Republics at Washington. 1 His love of music moved him to 1 nuuip hundreds of churches and in | stitutionS with pipe organs. lie never l gave directly any large sum to re- 1 1iciOus purposes. Of his organ SlttS
 he said he would hold himself respon-
 sible for what the organ pealed forth
 on the Sabbath, but not for what 1 might be said, in the pulpit. One or l his vcrv earliest gifts, as far back , as 1891 was the Carnegie Music hall
 in New York, at d cost of $2,o0o,ooo'
 and as president of the New York 1 Philharmonic society he spent his 1 money liberally in furthering it's ideals. He also liber0Ily backed the l Pittsburgh orchestra.
 Story of Scotch Thrift.
 To the Allied Engineers societies he | gave $2,OOO,0O0. His small gifts to
 colleges amounted to some $20,O0O,-
 900. No man left at his death such
 an unique and such scattered series l of monuments to pcrpctuate his mem | orN.
 t In the background of these fifteen
 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 peray he earned
 unexpectedly as a child when he as-