ANOTHER CARNEGIE GIFT.
'■ . ■ ■— — = —*——— ' - & QUARTER' OF A MILLION. )3y Telecraon—Press Association—CoDyriEUt : ; London, February 1. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has added a Quarter of a million. to his original gift Df half a million for the Dunferniline trust. '■.: . '.' REMARKABLE SERIES OF DONATIONS. , On December 14, 1910, it was announced that Sir. Andrew Carnegie had'handed over a' Board of Trustees, composed 1 of leading American .statesmen, with Mr. Elihu Root a? active head,- a sum of *£2,000,009,' producing an annual income Df £100,0.00, which is to be applied to the promotion of perpetual peace and : the abolition-of. war. This great gift brought Mr. Carnegie's public benefactions up to a lotal'iium of .£36,000)000. : The chief previous items in Mr. Carnegie's' remarkable eeries of donations ere: ■'■'•■ ■ '■ ' ■,•*...:•• '•• '-' '.'"■■, ■ '..' •■"" . : £'. . Libraries :...■ :. 10,400,000 Carnegie Institute at Pittsbiirg 2,000,000 Carnegie Institute at Washington ,■.' 2,400,000 Pension funds 3,000,000 Hero funds .......'......'......... ;.. 1,000,000 Scottish Universities ..' 2,000,000 Dunfermline Endowment :........ 500,000 The 'Hague Peace Temple 350,000 Allied- Engineers' Society .....\... 210,000 French Hero Fund .'.... 200,000 Veace' Propaganda .........:...„...; 200,000
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1042, 3 February 1911, Page 5
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160ANOTHER CARNEGIE GIFT. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1042, 3 February 1911, Page 5
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