The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-11

Twelve thousand persons solved the
problem in part by asking for some
of the money for themselves.
The answers which Carnegie him
self gave and backed up with his mil
lions have made him the most original
If not the greatest of philanthropists.
First Gift to Employees.
Before he sailed for. Scotland in
1901. he left letters announcing gifts
OF 100000. His first big gift was
the setting. aside of s4,000,0O0 to sup
ply pensions and relief for the injured
and aged employees of his. steel plants
-"an acknowledgment of the deep
debt which L owe to the workmen who
have contributed so greatly to my sue
cess" He added an extra million for
the support of libraries for his work
men. and took up his library hobby in
a wholesale way by giving $5,200,00O
TO New York City for the erection of
sixty-five branch libraries in the
metropolis. Another million he gave
for a library in st. Louis.
II have just begun to give money
away" he said in announcement of
these gifts. He kept it up as fast as
he coud with discrimination. On
libraries alone he spent upwards of
$50, 100000. He gave them to some
two thousand English speaking com
munities thruout the world. One of
his libraries is in the Fiji Islands.
Great National Institute.
He remembered Pittsburgh, the
scene of his steel-making triumphs,
by esta ablishing there "a great institute,
including the largest of his libraries,
a museum, a magnificent concert hall,
and the Carnegie Neurological
schools, with a total endowment of
$16.00O.000.
He built a great national institution
in Washington, which should be the
fountain head of advanced work in
investigation, research and discov-
cry" and placed in the hands of its
trustees a total endowment of some
$2O.0OO,00O.
To his native Scotland his largest
single gift was a fund of $1O,000.000
to aid education in Scottish universi-
ties.
Started Carnegie Medals
He carried out his pet idea of a
hero commission, endowed in 1905
with $5,00O,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
ing, with a total fund of SIS. 600,
which has taken up efficiency surveys
OF educational work, aided many in
StltutlOnS, ana prONlQeu pensions lot
college professors. In 1911 he capi
talized his educational benevolence. so
that his gifts to libraries, colleges and
other institutions should live after
him, by esta blishing the Carnegie cor
poration with a fund of $4,000 900.
Built Hague Peace Palace.
One Of his latest and greatest ideals
was the abolition of war. hope that
I he cherished in the face of interna-
tional conflicts He gave S10,O00,000
| toward an international peace fund.
| and built the Peace palace at The
/ Hague. which was dedicated in 1913.
He gave $4,000 for the bureau of
American republics at Washington.
His love of music moved nim 20
equip hundreds of churches and in
sututions with pipe organs. He ne'er
gave directly any large sum to religi-
/ Gus purposes. OF his organ gifts he
said he would hold himself respon-
sible for what the organ pealed forth
on the Sabbath, but not for what
might be said in the pulpit. One of
MS very earliest gifts. as far back as
1891, was the Carnegie Music hall in
| New York, at a cost of 100000. and
as president of the New York Phil
| harmonic society he spent his money
literally in furtherinE its ideals. He
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