The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-08-19

1911 he capitalized his educational
benevolence, so that his gifts to IL
braries, colleges and other institu-
tions should live after him, by es-
tablishing the Cornegie corporation
with a fund of s25,O00,000.
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
$1O,O00,000 towards an international
peace fund, and built the peace
palace at The Hague, which was ded-
icated in 1913. He gave $750,000
for the bureau of American repub-
lies at Washington.
His love for music moved him to
equip hundreds Of churches and in
stitutions with pipe organs He
never gave directly any large sum
to religious purposes. Of his organ
gifts he said he would hold himself
responsible for what the organ peal
ed forth on the Sabbath, but not for
what might be said in the pulpit.
One of his very earliest gifts, as far
back as 1891, was the Carnegie
music hall in New York, at a cost of
$4,000, 900, and as president of the
New York Philharmonic society he
spent his money literally in further
ing it's ideals. He also literally
backed the Pittsburg orchestra.
To the Allied Engineers societies
he gave $2,0O0,000. His small gifts
to colleges amounted to some $780,
100000. No man left at his death
such an unique and such a scattered
series of monuments to perpetuate
his memory.
In the background of these fif-
teen years of philanthropy there is
the familiar story of Scotch thrift, a
little luck and steel, which made
such generosity possible.
Carnegie Told His Own Story.
Carnegie was fond of telling the
story himself. Rapidly covered, it
was this: His first penny he earned
unexpectedly as a child when he as
tonished his schoolmaster in Dun
fermline by reciting Burns long
poem, "Man Was Made to Mourn" ;"
without break. There is an anec-
dote of how, when asked in Sun
day school to recite a proverb from
scripture, the young Scot unwilling
ly forecast his own fortune by CIV
ing the homely advice-''Look after
the pence, and the pounds will take
care of themselves"
Andrew was IL when his father,
a master weaver, was brought al
most to destitution. The steam loom
drove him out of business. The fam
lily numbered four, including candy"
and his younger brother William.
The parents decided to emigrate to
America, whence some relatives had
preceded them with success. They
settled at Allegheny City, Pa, across
the river from Pittsburg, in 1848.
The father and Andrew found work
in cotton factory, the son as bob
bin boy. l. was his first work. The
salary was $1.20 a week. He was
soon promoted, at slight advance,
to engineers assistant. He stocked
the boilers and ran the engine in the
factory cellar.
In those dingy quarters, where he
worked twelve hours day, came
the inspiration that later led to his
library benefactions, he said. A
Colonel Anderson, possessed Of some
400 books, announced he would
open his library every weekend and
allow boys to borrow any books
they pleased. Carnegie was one of
the most eager readers.
"Only he who has longed as I did
for Saturday to come," he has said,
"can understand what Colonel An
derson did for me and other boys of
Allegheny. Is it any wonder that
resolved, if ever surplus wealth
came to me, l would use in initiating
my benefactor?'
At "A Carnegie emerged from the
engine cellar and became a tele-
graph messenger. J. Douglas Reid,
a Dunfermline man, who had come
to America early, was head of the
office, and he made Andrew his
protege. Telegraphy was then al
most a new thing. Nobody ventured