Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-15
ANDREW CARNEGIE,
STEEL KING, DEAD
lronmaster Passes Away at His
Summer Home.
EIGHTY-THREE YEARS OLD
With Fortune Piing Up, He Conceived
Plan of Giving 1t Away, and Has
Disposed of More Than
$500, 100000.

Lenox, Mass, Aug. 12.-Andrew
Carnegie, the steel magnate, died at
his LenoX summer home Shadow
Brook" at 10 Monday morning af-
ter an illness of less than three days
with bronchial pneumonia. So sud-
den was his death that his daughter.
Mrs. Roswell Miller, was unable to
get to her fathers bedside before he
died. His wife and private secretary
were with him at the end.
Mr.. Carnegie leaves his widow, who
was Miss Louise Whitefeld of New
York, and his daughter, Margaret,
who became the wife last April of En-
sign Roswell Miller of New York.
Born in Scotland in 1885.
Andrew Carnegie was born Novem-
Der %, 1885, at Dunfermline, Fife
shire, Scotland. In 1S48 he was
brought to America by his parents,
who settled in Pittsburgh. Pa.
His first work was as a weaver's as
sistant in cotton factory in Allie
gheny. Pa.
During this time he learned telegra-
ply. Later he entered the employ Of
the Pennsylvania railroad and became
an operator. Here he advanced rapid
ly and soon was superintendent Of
the Pittsburgh division of the road.
Gains Nucleus for Fortune.
He joined Mr.. Woodruff, inventor of
the sleeping car, in organizing the
Woodruff Sleeping Car company. Here
he gained the nucleus for his fortune.
He began careful investments in oil
lands and increased his means.
Then the Civil war came Mr.. Car
negie offered his services and was
made superintendent of military rail
ways, and government telegraph lines
il the East.
After the war he developed iron
works of various kinds and establish
ed at Pittsburgh the Keystone Bridge
works and the Union Iron works. 1t
was then that he introduced into this
country the famous Bessemer process
for making steel. This was in 1868.
The Bessemer process revolution
lied the steel industry and made him
the steel king of the world, laying the
foundation of his huge fortune.
Tried to Give Away Fortune.
Andrew Carnegie began a race
against time when, in 1901, at the age
of sixty-fve, he resolved to give away
his enormous fortune. He held it
"disgra ceful" for a man to keep on
gathering idle millions In the COM
paratively few years which the actu-
airy could allow him. he would disem-
barrass himself of practically all he
had. No man had ever launched
philanthropic campaign of such di-
mansions.
His was then a fortune of Just
about quarter billion dollars, the
largest ever acquired by a foreign
born American.
To give this stupendous sum away,
in about half the time he had taken
to gather it, was a purpose Carnegie
had fairly well fulfilled when death
overlook him. He had distributed
about $300.O00,OOO
He declared, when he gave ND gath.
ering wealth and announced an era of
distribution, that he expected to find
it more difficult to give his millions
away than it had been to acquire
them.
Built Institution in Washington.
He built a great national institu-
ton in Washington, which should be
the fountain head Of advanced work
in Investigation, research and dis
covery." and placed in the hands of
its trustees a total endowment of
some S20,00O,OOO
He carried out his pet idea of a
hero commission, endowed in 1905
with S5,000,O00 by which hundreds Of
men, women and children have been
rewarded with Carnegie medals or
pensions for acts of heroism in the
rescue of imperiled persons. He lat
er extended similar benefaction to
several countries.
Gave Organs to Churches.
He established the Carnegie foun-
dation for the advancement of teach
ing. with total fund of S15,0O0,00O
In 1911 he capitalized his educational
benevolence so that his gifts to IL
braries, colleges and other institu-
tons. should live after him. by estab-
oh nn =;
a fund of S25,O000OO.
One of his ideals was the abolition
of war. hope that he cherished in
the face of international conflicts. He
gave S10,000,000 toward an interna-
tional peace fund and built the peace
palace at The Hague. which was ded-
icated in 1913. He gave S750.O0O for
the bureau of American republics at
Washington.