Evening star., 1935-11-24
CARNEGIE BIRTH
TO Be CELEBRATED
d. c., Rich in Testimonials
to PhiIanthr0pist, Will
Share in Tributes.

Washington tomorrow will join hun
dreds of other cities in celebration of
the centenary of the birth of Andrew
Carnegie.
The Public library of the District,
In common with libraries throughout
the United States and the United
Kingdom, will display an exhibition OF
Carnegie material at the central build
ing. Eighth and K streets, constructed
with funds donated by the famous hui
manitarian.
DR.. George F. Bowerman, librarian,
announced the display will include a
portrait of the famous philanthropiSt,
born in Scotland November 25. 1895;
his writings and books about him and
about his gifts in behalf of education,
science and the furtherance of peace.
Meanwhile, the governing board of
the Pan-American Union, which meets
In q building put up with Carnegie
money, will hold a special session at
noon tomorrow in the Hall of the
Americas of the union.
Hull and DIR. Espil to Speak.
Secretary of state Hull, president Of
the board, which consists also of diplo-
matte representatives here of 20 Latin
American nations, will preside and
speak ON Carnegie's efforts in behalf
of peace. DR.. Felipe A. Espil, Argen-
tine Ambassador and vice chairman Of
the board, Is also to talk.
e. +A In Grct
Pan-American Conference, held here
In 1889. From discussions begun at
that session the idea of Pan -Ameri-
can Union blossomed. The millionaire
steel magnate donated $3.50, 900 in 1903
to construct the unions building. 1t
was completed in 1910.
Offices of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace. TOO jackson
place, will be closed tomorrow In honor
of the man who made the endowment
possible. Trustees of the Carnegie In
stitution, Sixteenth and P streets, will
60 to New York to take part IN the
elaborate ceremonies arranged for that
city, to continue all week.
The Carnegie Corp. of New York,
one Of six philanthrophic trusts estab-
iished in the United States by Carnegie,
reported yesterday colleges, universities
and communities in every part Of the
United States will mark Carnegies
memory.
Arrangements for these obServances
will center in most instances around
the local Carnegie libraries and will
be conducted under supervision Of
library boards.
Portrait Is by Mora.
The corporation has sent for exhibi-
ton to four Washington library build
tngs copies of the Carnegie portrait
painted by Luis Mora and selected by
the Carnegie Centenary Committee as
an excellent likeness of the man.
The portrait will be displayed in
the central building and the Takoma
Park. Southeastern and Mount Pleas
ont branches, four buildings Of the
District system built with Carnegie
money.
The Washington Public Library, as
It Is known today, owes much to the
foresight OF Carnegie, who, cogn1zant
of his own struggles for an education,
devoted q goodly proportion of his
fortune to aiding the development Of
q widespread system of public
libraries in both the land Of his adop-
ton and in Great Britain and her
dependencies. Like the pioneers of
the library profession, he realized that
education does not end with the
school and that the school cannot
supply all the needs of its students
the free public library is needed to
supplement the formal educational
system.
To the struggling librarians and
library boards of the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries Car
negie's interest, backed by his huge
fortune, gave assurance that their
efforts in behalf of the extension of