The daily banner., 1919-08-12
AR0REWCARNEC|E
Dies SUDDENLY
Passes Away at His Home In
LenOx, Mass.
He WAS Ill THREE DAYS
Gifts. Since Retirement Of Noted
PhiIanthropist Totals Hundreds OF
Millions of Dollars.

Millions of Dollars.
Lenox,- Mass, Aug. 12.-AndreW
Carnegie, steel magnate and phllan'
threpist, died at his Leno1 summer
home, Shadow Brook" after an Ill
ness of less than three days with
bronchial pneumonia.
He was in his eighty-fourth year.
So sudden was his death. that his
daughter, Mrs. Roswell MillerI was
unable to get to her fathers bedside
before he died. His wife and private
secretary We're with him at the end.
MIR. Carnegie had spent most OF the
summer at LenoN, and up to re"
weeks ago. enjoyed himself in almost
daily fishing trips ON Lake Mahkee-
mac, which borders his big Shadow
Brook estate, and in riding about his
grounds. ..,
He was taken i'll Friday and grew
steadily worse. His advanced age
and Iessened powers Of resistance
fastened the end.
Mr.. Carnegie came to Lenox to
make his home in May, 1917, and had
spent the last three summers there.
He intended to spend his declining
DAYS at his country home there and
when he bought it an announcement
was made thai Mr.. Carnegie would
spend all the spring and summer
months there. He came up from New
York late in May this year.
Mr.. Carnegie leaves his widow, who
was Miss Louise Whitefeld, Of New
York, and one child, his daughter,
Margaret, who was married last April
to Ensign Roswell Miller, Of New
York.
Mrs. Miller was at her home In
Millbank, N. Y, when word came Of
her fathers approaching death. She
hurried to Lenox, bat did not arrive
until a few minutes after he passed
away.
Although Mr.. Carnegie was taken
i'll Friday, it was not until early on
Monday that his condition took a
critical turn. On Saturday it was said
that he was suffering from a severe
cold, but it was not different apparent
ly from other attacks he had endured
and no fear was entertained that it
would prove fatal.
1t had been announced he was re-
manning indoors under the care of the
nurses who had been in attendance
on. him most of the time since he
came to Shadow Brook. Outside of
the immediate household no one had
any intimation that death was near.
According to members Of the house
hold, Mr.. Carnegie had hoped to go
to Skibos Castle early this year, but
changed. his plans when he learned
that under governmental restrictions
he would be unable to take the reti-
nue. of servants that he desired, the
regulations limiting him to one auto
mobile and one chauffeur.
i Arrangements for the funeral of
Mr.. Carnegie were to be made by the
family later in that day. Whether
the body would be removed to New
, York had not been decided.
Andrew Carnegie had given, away
$3.50, $685. ,653 up to June 1, 1918, a
compilation of, his benefactions pre-
pared by the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace shows.
His fortune when he retired from
active business in 1901 was estimated
at $3.50, 100000. This may have been
under7estimated, although, of course
the SUM would have been greatly in.
creased by the natural advance OF
values in the intervening period.
November 26, 1912, Mr.. Carnegie
| made statement which was taken to
| Indicate he had gotten rid of all but
$25, 600, but what he really said
was that his New York corporation
| had been made the residuary legatee
of all surplus left after meeting the
provisions of his-will. He explained
he had set aside $25,o00,000' to meet
! personal pensions to the members OF
the military. telegraph corps and Penn
sylvania railroad men with whom he
had been associated. se2-
Another report, printed in NoHem
ber 1918, was that Mr. Carnegie ha6
actually disposed of all his wealth ex
cept $20,O00O00. His benefactions al
that time were asserted tO-amount te
$S5O,OOO,OOO These statements were
/ alleged to have been made. upon au
| thority of one Of his closest friends