Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-11
Ar1drew Carnegie Won Fame
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..,sss,ss1as a World ,RhilQt1thr0pist
s 81 Dispenser of the Millions He Had
AccumulQted---HiS Remarkable Career.

Andrew Carnegie, who died this
mokSang at Lenox. Mass. began race
>@4nst time when, in 1901. at the
NRg46f sixty-five. he resolved to give
owl his enormous fortune. He held
nyf OlsgracefuP' for a man to keep
SSn gathering idle millions. In the
few years which the
XActuary could allow him he would
c1isembarrass himself of practically all
fhe had. No man had ever launched a
1 philanthropic campaign of such dimen-
sions.
His was then fortune of just about
IN quarter billion dollars, the largest
ever acquired bv foreign-born Ameri-
can. second only to the John D. Rookie
Teller wealth as the largest individual
. accumulation in the United States, and,
built, as II was, of 5 per cent steel
bonds, it would. without so much as
: turning over ones hand. have ap-
preached half billion by the time
Carnegie could call himself an -octo-
genarian-on November 25, 1915.
To give this stupendouS sum, away
in about half the time he had taken
to gather it was purpose Carnegie
had fairly well fulfilled when death
overlook him today. He had dis
tributed about s300.000.000. 1t was
giving money away at the rate of over
$20,0OO.0OO a year. or more than $780,
600 day.
He declared when he gave up gath
ering wealth and announced an era of
distribution 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, 000, 900
away" became such a popular query
that an English advertiser who en-
pioyed 1t, received no less than $4,000
9 inn 10,
rid himself of his wealth. Twelve
thousand persons solved the problem
IN part by asking for some of the
money for themselves.
The answers which Carnegie himself
gave and backed up with his millions
nave made him the most original, if
not the greatest, of phflanthropists.
Workers Get His First Big Gift.
Before he sailed for Scotland in
1910 he left letters announcing gifts
OF 100000. His first big gift was
the setting aside of s4,O0O.0e0 to sup
PLY pensions and relief for the in
3ured and aged employees of his steel
plants-"an acknowledgment of the
deep debt which / owe to the work
men who have contributed so greatly
to my success" He added an extra
million for the support of libraries
Tor his workmen. and took up his
AAOi OIL -iiOODy III d WHOlS>SdiSr way 0y
giving $5.200.000 to New York city
Tor the erection of sixty-fiye branch
libraries in the metropolis. Another
million he gave for a library in ST.
Louis.
Il have just begun to give money
away" he said. in announcement of
these gifts He kept it up as fast as
he could with discrimination On
Libraries alone he spent upward of
S53,o00.000. He gave them to some
frrvN t~I, lit
munities throughout the world. One
Of his libraries is in the Fiji Islands.
He remembered Pittsburgh. the
scene of his steel-makipg triumphs.
by establishing there a great insti-
tute, including the largest of his
libraries. museum. a magnificent
concert hall. and the Carnegie Tech
biological Schools. with g a total EN-
dowment of s16,ooo,0o0.
He built 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
To his native Scotland his largest
single gift was a fund of s10,000.000
to aid education in Scottish univer-
sities.
He carried out his pet idea, of a
hero commission. endowed in 1906
with $4,000, 900. byswhich 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 later
extended similar benefactions to sew
eral foreign countries
For Advancement of Teaching.
He established the Carnegie Foun-
dation for the Advancement of Teach
ing. with a total fund of $4,000, 600.
which has taken up efficiency surveys
of educational work. aided many in
situations and provided pensions for
college professors. In 1911 he CAPT
SO that his gifts to libraries, colleges
and other institutions should live
after him. by establishing the Car.
negie Corporation with fund of
$25, 0o0. 900.
One of his latest and greatest ideals
was the abolition of war. a hope
that he cherished in the face of in
terpational conflicts He gave @$10.-
000,000 toward an international peace
fund. and built the Peace Palace at
1913. He gave ,$75o,0e0 for the Blu
reau Of American Republics. at WASH
fngton.
His love of music moved him to
equip hundreds of churches and in
stitutions with pipe organs. He never
lieious purposes. One of his very
earliest gifts-as far back as 1891
was the Carnegie Music Hail, in New
York. at "A cost of $4,000. 600, and, as
president of the New York Philhar-
fmonic Society he spent his money
literally in furthering it's ideals. He
also literally backed the Pittsburgh
Orchestra.
; To the Allied Engineers Societies
he gave $2.000.00 His small gifts
to colleges amounted to some $780,
100000 No man left at his death
ssuch unique and such a scattered
.series of monuments to perpetuate his
memory.
Father Loses His Business.
& Andrew was twelve when his father
q master weaver, was brought almost
ITO restitution. The steam looms drove
him out of business. The family mum
.bered four, including ANDY" and hi.
younger brother. William. The par
Tents decided to emigrate to America
whence some relatives had preceded
them with success. They settled a
Allegheny City, Pa, across the rive
from Pittsburgh, in i1S4S. The father
land Andrew found work in a cotton
factory. the son as a bobbin boy. 1t wal
his first work. The salary was S1.20 {
Eweek. He was soon promoted. at I
Slight advance. to engineers assist