Evening star., 1922-11-04
CARNEGIE PENSION
LIST NAMES 500
London VisCOunt and Helen
Keller Aided Along With
Former Employees.
FUND HELD UNTAXABLE
Letters of Late Ironmaster Made
Public in Appeal to Court
Against All Imposts.

NEW YORK, November 4.-On the
tombstone of the ironmaster. Andrew
carnegie. in Sleepy Hollow cemetery,
is the epitaph he wrote:
Here lies man who knew how to
enlist in his service better men than
himself"
Documents made public yesterday
and filed in the appellate division of
the supreme court in support of an
appeal asking that $4,5OO. 900 PEN
sion fund created by Carurgie's will
be declared untaxable. sounded Il
practical ov"rtoue to the keynote of
the epitaph.
8 The documents showed that 500
men and women. most of them more
than sixty. md many more than
eighty years Old We're on the pension
list of the Scotch ironmaster. who
died in 1919. Some of the bcnetici-
aries receive SO month; others get
incomes that approximate $1,000
yearly. Some of them are workmen
grown too old for their trades: some
Of them have been downed by sudden
misfortune. one of them is Wis
count of London: another is the
widow OF railroad engineer. But
most of them are men who were en-
listed In the service of Andrew Car
negie."
S2,5OO to Helen Keller.
To Miss Helen Keller. the famous
girl who is deaf. dumb and blind. the
Carnegie pension fund grants an an
nuity Of s2.50O. NisCount John Nor
ley of Wimbledon Park, London. is
provided with $1,000 sterling year
after reaching the age of eighty, ac-
Cording to the pension list.
Hundreds of others whose names
are unfamiliar in news pages. but
which We're once written on the pay
rolls Of steel mills and plants in
PENNSYLVANIA receive incomes Of
varying size from the fund.
Several letters from Mr.. Carnegie
in regard to the care of obscure
friends were made public yesterday
by Robert A. Franks, who for many
years directed the disposal of the
pension fund. One says of an old
man and his wife:
They are old, no longer able to
work, and on the verge of losing their
minds The arrangement | suggest,
| hope. will make them comfortable
to the end"
Aids Engineers Family.
Another letter concerns an engi-
neer who, close to death. asked Mr.
Carnegie'S aid for his family. one OF
whom was crippled daughter. The
engineer. in his feeble days. had been
pensioned and the letter directs the
continuation of aid to his family,
SAYING:
''If more is needed to keep the
widow and her daughter, it is to be
given them. sure"
One letter, directing the enroll
nent of the name of a woman on the
list of pensioned, tells directly of a
man enlisted in the service of car
negie. II says:
"Please say her father loaned me
s217.50 in order to make my first pay
Inent on sleeping car stock. Say that
ne took my note without security.
saving: Yes Ill lend it to you,
Andy; you're all right.
Glad TO Return Favor.
so his daughter need have no hes
itation in coming under my wing
now, as it We're"
The appeal for the ruling dispens-
ing with taxation of the fund
which was granted-was partly based
upon proofs offered to show that the
pension fund was but small part or
The philanthropies of the ironmaster'
who gave away. the accounting
shows. $3.50, 100000 and died worth
s23,000,00o. -,
Andrew Carnegie retired from busi.
ness in 1901. the court was told, and
from then until his death at Shadow
Brook. Lenox, Mass, on August H.
1919. was most interested in the dis
position Of large portions OF his for-