The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-12
ANDREW CARNEGIE Is DEAD AT
LEMON IN HIS SiTH YEAR
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LEMON IN HIS SlTH hEAR
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haver acquired by Il foreign born Amer
'can, second only to the John D. Rockc-
Teller wealth as the largest individual
accumulation In the United States; and
sjuilt, ~ it was, of per cent steel
Bonds, II would, without so much as
,.urning over ones hand, have approach
"a half billion by the time Carnegie
tould 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 a purpose Carnegie hai
fairly well fulfilled when death over.
Took him today. He had distributed
about $3.50 900 900. 1t was giving money
away at the rate of over $50 100000 a
year or more than $50 day.
He declared when he gave up gather.
ing wealth and announced an era of dis
ltribution, that he expected TO find 1t
more difficult to give his millions away
than it had been to acquire them. How
would you give $500 900 900 away be
came such popular query that an
English advertiser who employed it,
received no less than Al, 600 suggestions
as to how Carnegie could rid himself of
ms wealth IwelNe thouS'iiiu p'rSoi'S
solved the proplem III part pS "shihs
Tor some OF the money ior themselves
The answers whlch Carnegie hlhlSe''
gave and backed up win ms hillilohS
have made him the most orlsihai II ho'
the greatest OF phllahthropists'
before ne salleo ior Scoti'lu III i9oi
he left letters announclhs SHtS OIL ~
100000. HIS llrst Dig slit was the set
ting aside OF S4'ooo'ooo 10 supply pen
sions and reliei Tor the INJURED ana aseu
employees of his steel plants-ah ac
acknowledgement OF the deep debt which
owe to the workmen VINO nave con
,tributed so greatly TO my success ne
added an extra million Tor the support
of libraries for his workmeh' ana TOOK
up his library hobby III WholeSale
way by giving $6'2oo,ooo TO New YORK
City for the erection OF 65 branch IL
braries in the metropolis. Another mn
lion he gave Tor library III 81 LOUIS
! Founded 1000 Libraries
! "I have inst begin to give money
',wov" he said in announcement of
,hasa cifts He kent II nm rs fast as
ha could with discrimination ON Ii.
'hraries alone ne spent inward of $50.
ooO OO0 He gave them TO some 2. 900
iEnplish sneokinp communities through
sout tho world One of his libraries is
in the Fiji Islands
! He remembered Pittsburg. the scene
NJ his steel.making triumphs. bv es-
'tohIishing there 4 great institute. in
cludinp inc largest of his libraries. a
nuseum magnificent concert hall
Nand the Carnegie Technological Schools.
with - total endownent of SIG 600 900
J He built great national institution
in ,Washinpton. which should be the
fountain head of advanced work in in.
vestigation. research and discovery"
and placed in the hands OF its trustees
a total endowment of some $50 600 900.
To his native Scotland his largest sin
gle gift was a fund of SO 900 900. to aid
education in Scottish universities
He carried out his pet idea of a hero
commission, endowed in 1905 with So,
600 900 by which hundreds of men,
women and children have been reward
ed with Carnegie medals or pensions for
acts Of heroism in the rescue of i'm
peri!ed persons. He later extended sim
liar benefactions to several foreign
countries.
He established the Carnegie Founda-
ton for the Advancement of Teaching,
with a total fund of $4,000 900, which
has taken up efficiency surveys of edu-
cational work aided many institutions,
and provided pensions for college pro-
fessors. In 1911 he capitalized his edu-
cational beneyoleuce. so that his gifts
TO libraries, colleges and other institu-
4: tions should live after him, by establish
/ ing the Carnegie Corporation with a
| fund of s25, 900 900.
uo,ed IN Abolish War
/ =, ~, ,o,os. ana sroates+ ideals
,,o aholition of war hone that
| ~. oharisbed in tho face of internationa,
aont,io,s ua gova $40 ooO Gao toward
I,,arrot,oraI pa.ce E,upd and buiIt
.ho Pee po1ace NJ Tho Hagne which