CARNEGIE'S BENEFACTIONS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 284, 4 June 1909, Page 8

CARNEGIE'S BENEFACTIONS.

' Air Carnegie has now, distributed, over £M, 000,000 in charities and in aid -of education, his gifts to libraries alone exceeding £8,000,000. To the Scottish liniversities for the payment of class fees to students he gave in 1901 £2,000,000. To Birmingham University he gave £50.000, and ho also presented a public, school and a large public park to Dunfermline, and hasjjeen a generous hehper of the University of Pennsylvania, the Pittslmrg Polytechnic School, and other smaller institutions. He then gave £200, 000. for founding the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg, and a. similar sum to establish the Carnegie Institute at Washington, D.C. In 1902. he presented Mr John (now Lord) Morley with Lord Acton's library, 60,000 to 80,000 volumes, and Mr . Morley in tur.n presented it to Cambridge University. 1n .1903 Mr Carnegie founded the Dunfermline Trust, with an annual income, of £25,000, "to he used in attempts to bring into the monotonous lives of the toiling masses of Dunfermline. more sweetness and light." He has arranged to build a Palace of Peace at The Hague at a cost of £300,000, and in 1905 he announced a gift- of £2,000.---000 for providing teachers in American universities and colleges with pension's. In 190G to promote international peace Mr Carnegie gave £200,000, and to Princeton University he, paicfTthe cost of construction of an artificial lake 3i miles long by 400 ft to 1000 ft wide. Next year he gave £150,000 towards the construction at Washington of a Peace Palace for- America, £1,200,000 to the Carnegie Institute for the purposes of .forming technical schools, and £100.---000 to the King's Hospital Fund. During the present year, he added £1,000,000 to the Carnegie Institute.

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