The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-08-11
He Built Many Libraries,
Bestowed Great Number
of Medals for Bravery,
Endowed Institutions and
Endeavored Also to Bring
About an Era of World
Peace He Was in His
SD Year.

Lcnox, Mass, Aug. ll.-Andrew Car
negie, 81 years old, the steel magnate
and philanthropist, died at his Lenox
summer home Shadow Brook" at 7:lO
this morning, after an illness of less than
three days with bronchial pneumonia.
So sudden was his death that his daugh-
ter. 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 had spent most of the
summer in Eenox, coming here late in
Nav and up TO few weeks ago enjoyed
himself in almost daily fishing trips on
Lake Mahkeenac, which borders his big
Shadow Brook estate, and in riding
about his grounds. He was taken i'll Fri
day night and grew steadily worse. His
advanced age and lessened powers of re-
sistance FASTENED the end.
Mr., Carnegie came to Lenox to make
his home in May, 1917, and had spent
the past three summers there. He came
up from New York late in May, this
year.
Mr.. Carnegie leaves his wife, who was
Miss Louise Whitefield of New York, and
his daughter, Margaret, who married last
April Ensign Roswell Miller of New
York.
Mrs. Miller was at her home in Mill
hank. n. ", when word came of her fa
thers approaching death. She hurried
20 Lenox but did not arrive until few
minutes after her father died.
Although Mr.. Carnegie was taken i'll
Friday, il was not until early to-day
that his condition took a critical turn.
On Saturday il was said that he was
suffering from a severe cold, but it was
not different apparently from other at
tacks be had endured, and no fear was
entertained that il would prove fatal.
il was announced that he was remaining
indoors under the care Of the nurses who
had been in attendance on him most of
the time since he came to Shadow Brook
According to members of the house.
hold, MIR Carnegie had hoped to go to
Skibo castle early this year. but changed
his plans when he learned that under
governmental restrictions he would be
unable TO take a retinue of servants that
he desired, the regulations limiting him
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Andrew Carnegie began a race against
time when, in 1901, at the age of 90
wears, he resolved to give away his enor-
mous fortune He held it "dsgraceful"
for man to keep on gathering idle mil
lions. In the comparatively few years
which the actuary could allow him, he
would disembarrsss himself of practical
ly all he had. No man ever launched a
philanthropc. campaign of such dimen-
sions.
His was then fortune of just about
= quarter billion dollars, the largest ever
acquired by a foreign born American, sec
ond only 20 the John d. Rockefeller
wealth as the largest individual accumu-
lation in the United States, and, built,
rs II was, of five per cent steel bonds, it
would, without so much as turning over
ones hand, have approached half bill
lion by the time Carnegie could call him
self an octogenarian on Nov. %, 1915.
To give this stupendous sum away, in
about half the time he had taken to
gather IL, was a purpose Carnegie had
fairly well fulfilled when death overlook
him to-day He had distributed about
S3O0O0O,000. 1t was giving money away
Rt the rate of over $4,000, 900 a year, or
more than $4,000 a day.
He declared, when he gave up gather
ing wealth and announced an era of dis
tribution, that he expected to find it
more difficult to give his millions away
than IL had been to acquire them. How
would you give $3O0O0OO0 away?", be.
came such a popular query that an Eng
lish advertiser, who employed it, received
no less than $4,000 suggestions as to how
Carnegie could 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
have made him the most original if not
The greatest Of philanthropists.
Before he sailed for Scotland in 1901
De left letters announcing gifts of So.
100000 His first big gift was the set
ting aside Of S4000000 to supply pen
sions and relief for the injured and aged
employees Of his steel plants-"an ac-
knowldgment of the deep debt which
owe 90 the workmen who have contrib
uted 50 greatly to my success" He add
ell an extra million for the support of