The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-12


 ing, with total fund of $15,000,0 ,000, which has taken up efficiency sur veys of educational work, aided many ! institutions. and provided pensions for college professors. In 1911 he capitalized his educational ebenev- olence, so that his gifts to libraries, colleges, and other institutions, should live after him, by establishing tn , Carnegie Corporation with fund of | 25,000,000
 1 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 $10,000,O00 toward an international Peace Fund, and built the Peace Palace at The Hague, which was de- dicated in 1913. He gave $750,000 for the Bureau of the American Re publics at Washington. His love of music moved him to equip hundreds of churches and in stitutions with pipe-organs He never gave directly any large sum to reli
 gious purposes.
 To the Allied Engineers Societie
 he gave S2000,000. His small gift to collegs amounted to $20,000000 No man left at his death such al unique scattered series of monument
 to perpetuate his memory. |
 | In the background of these fifteel | years of philanthropy there is tho 1 familiar story of Scotch thrift, a lit tic luck, the steel, which made sucf generosity possible.
 Carnegie was fond of telling th story himself. Rapidly covered it wa this: His first penny he earned un expectedly when he astonished hi schoolmaster in Dunfermline by recit ing Burns long poem, Man wa Made to Mourn" without break There is an anecdote of how, whel asked in Sunday School to recite proverb from Scripture, the young Scot unwittingly forecast his own f. tune by giving the homely advice I"Look after the pence, and the pounds will look after themselves"
 Andrew was 12 when his father, master weaver, was brought almost 10 destitution. The steam loom, drove him out of business. The fam fly numbered four including Andy and his younger brother William. Th' parents decided to emigrate to Am erica, whence some relatives hac proceeded them with success. The, settled at Allegheny City, Pa, across the river from Pittsburgh, in 1S48 The father and Andrew found work in cotton factory, the son as bob bin boy. It was his first work. The salary was $1.20 week. He was soon promoted at slight advance, tcI engineers assistant. He stoked the boilers and ran the engine in the factory cellar
 In those dingy quarters, where he worked twelve hours day, came the
 nspiration that later led to his I'D rary 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 or the most eager readers.
 "Only he who has longed as l did for Saturdays to come" he has said, "can understand what Colonel An derson did for me and other boys or Allegheny. Is it any wonder that resolved. if ever surplus wealth came to me. would use it initiating my BenefactOr?"
 At IA Carnegie emerged from the engine cellar and became telegraph messenger.
 Andrew was 16 when his father died, and he became at once the breadwinner of the family and true capitalist. He had been told by his trusted employer that ten shares of Adams Express stock could be had for $500. and it was a good invest ment. At a family council that night carnegie's mother decided she would mortgage her little home for $500. The stock was bought, and if brought monthly dividends of one per cent.
 'T can see that first check of ten dollars dividend money now" he said when he became retired ironmaster with millions. "It was something new to all of us. for none of us had ever received anything but from toll. ,"